[Chicago] Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day - March 24

[Dan Krol]

To think, at one point in history, 100% of all computer programmers were
female.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jon Sudlow <jsudlow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think science girls are hot
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Tim Saylor <tim.saylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pumping Station One <http://www.pumpingstationone.org/> is celebrating
>> Ada Lovelace day on March 24th with a number of computing activities,
>> including a beginners programming class in Python and an obfuscated code
>> competition for more advanced programmers.  The full description is below.
>> It's sure to be a lot of fun, come check it out!
>>
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>>
>> Ada Lovelace (world's first computer programmer), computer programming,
>> and all contributions to science by women is being celebrated on this
>> Wednesday, March 24 at 8pm at PS1.
>>
>> We decided to do this at the very last minute (Saturday, really).
>>
>> There will likely be:
>> * A beginners' programming class using the easy-to-learn computer language
>> called Python
>> * People discussing Ada Lovelace and women's contribution to science and
>> engineering
>> * An obfuscated code competition - - calculate Bernoulli's numbers
>> * Whatever else we can scrounge up at the very last moment!
>> * Drinking afterward!
>>
>> Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell all those people you feel meh
>> about!
>>
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