This talk will go through my experience of giving a workshop at Women's International Leadership Conference on introduction to programming using Javascript. Some of the topics I'll cover are * Why using JavaScript as the programming language * The feasibility of teaching something useful in a short workshop * Why inspiring people is important * My personal and professional growth with this experience

1. What I learned teaching
programming to 150
young women

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3. http://sailorproject.org
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6. Why using JavaScript
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7. What can be done in 2 hours
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8. Why inspiring people is important
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9. My personal growth
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15. Visualizing is
important
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17. TOOLS
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19. variables
arrays
loops
functions
operators
conditions
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20. 0 effort
easy to visualize
easy to remember
pretty useful
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22. Yay!

24. A skeleton code is very
useful
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27. Newcomers can do more
than we imagine
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28. Teach people
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29. Typography
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30. tags!
<canvas>
</canvas>
<Script>
</Script>

31. Comments
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35. Typography.
(my bad)
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36. Inspiring is
important
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38. Programming

41. Teaching is so
rewarding
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42. Specially if it relates to
something you care about
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43. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi

44. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi
Joe
Tim

45. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi
Joe
Tim
WIL’s team and participants

46. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi
Joe
Tim
WIL’s team and participants
JSUnconf’s staff

47. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi
Joe
Tim
WIL’s team and participants
JSUnconf’s staff
Hisham

48. SPECIAL THANKS TO
Naomi
Joe
Tim
WIL’s team and participants
JSUnconf’s staff
Hisham
Simone
Ana

49. YOU

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