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Ada Developers Academy

Software developers training for women and gender expansive people

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By Lisa Flores, Senior Program Manager Hi all – My name is Lisa and I’m the Sr. Program Manager at Ada. I’ve lived in Seattle for the past 4 years working in marketing at Amazon and Starbucks before joining Ada last year. Before that, I…

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By Dan Roberts, Lead Instructor This cohort, Ada taught React as our front-end JavaScript framework for the first time. We’re now at the end of the first week and I would say it went well – the students seem to have a solid understanding of…

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We are excited to announce The Laurel Fund, Ada’s first scholarship opportunity! The goal of the Laurel Fund is to provide funds to cover the living expenses of two or more Ada students during the initial classroom instruction portion of the Ada program. After the…

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by Dan Roberts, Lead Instructor This is the story of how I found and fixed a performance problem in a React webapp. I’ve debugged many slow programs but never in the context of the web, so this was a great opportunity to experiment with the…

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Hello! I’m Dee Del Rosario, a new instructor at Ada, and I’m very excited to be here! I’ve spent a lot of time in Chicago and most recently Atlanta. Prior to this, I had been working as a full-stack software developer and front-end web developer….

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1. What were you doing before you became a Software Engineer?I’ve had lab jobs in an oceanography, genetics and organic geochemistry. I’ve also worked in a library and as a waitress. Most recently I worked for a number of years as a pharmaceutical research chemist….