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**Ada After Hours is not currently in session – our students are out of the classroom and in internships! Sign up on our mailing list to hear about upcoming events.** We’ve set up a weekly after-hours study session at Ada! This is a great place to go through tutorials, work on personal coding projects, and get help from instructors and volunteers. This is a beginner-friendly coding environment and everyone, regardless of experience is invited. Location: Ada Classroom: 1301 5th Avenue #1300, Seattle, WA…

We’re proud to announce that our first class will have 16 amazing students and will be held in the Rainier Tower in downtown Seattle. Please meet Anne and Liz, two members of our super-smart and incredibly talented group. Anne I’m Anne: lover of languages, climber of mountains, writer of terribly uninformative initial sentences in self-descriptions and now proto-developer with Ada. My interest in computer science developed rather recently and was surprising to discover. In hindsight, I should have known I…

Hi, I’m Elise. I’m a ruby developer out of Seattle. I’m really lucky – I learned how to program through unconventional means: friends, bootcamps, and trial and error. Becoming a programmer has been the most challenging and the most rewarding experience of my life. I am also a woman. The cards are stacked against women who are interested in programming careers: 85% of programmers and 98.5% of open source contributors are male. I’m helping start a program to change this: Ada…