Hey folks-

To start off with, I wanted to highlight a few new resources and opportunities that might interest you.

CodeStreak is a new SF bootcamp dedicated to teaching Ruby. They’ve offered GDI members a $1000 discount, using the secret code “GirlsDevelopIt”.

LearnStreet is a new way to learn Ruby, JavaScript, or Python online, and one of our own members is now working there. (They’re also looking for a frontend developer, if you’re already an expert in that.)

TreeHouse is a way to learn web development online. They’ve offered GDI members a 50% discount on the gold or silver plans. Get the discount here.

For those of you who are learning development in order to get started in the industry, I asked around for suggestions on the best way to do that, and summarized that in this blog post. There’s lots of great comments on it as well from self-taught developers. Also check out this blog post from someone who went down the path.

If you did a CS degree in college, you may want to help out with this research survey.

And now for our usual list of links! ----

GirlDevelopIt Events:

• Nov. 16th, SF: Hack Night
• Nov. 29th, SF: AJAX Workshop
• Dec. 6th, SF: JS APIs Workshop

If you are interested in attending one of our events but cannot afford the cost, please request a GDI scholarship.

Events:

• Nov. 16th, SF: Women 2.0 Founder Fridays
• Nov. 20th, SF: Mobile HTML5 App Performance
• Nov. 29th, SF: GA’s Cracking the Coding Interview
• Nov. 29th, SF: GA’s Intro to Product Management
• Dec. 1st, SF: GA’s Programming for Non-Programmers: HTML/CSS
• Dec. 2-4th, Hawaii: InControl Conference
• Dec. 8th, Castro Valley: acApps Hackathon
• Dec. 9th, Menlo Park: CodeChix Potluck Holiday Party
• Dec. 13th, SF: Learning Functional Programming (Scala)
• Dec. 17th, SF: WomenWhoCode Holiday Party

Bootcamps/Courses:

• CatalystClass is accepting applicants for their 12-week JavaScript bootcamp in SF. Tuition fees are still being decided, but some financial aid may be available: http://catalystclass.com/
• GeneralAssembly is accepting applications for several courses:
  • Intro to Web Dev class, $5000:
  • User Experience Design, $3500:
  • HTML/CSS/JS, $3500
• AppAcademy accepting applications for their intensive Ruby bootcamps in 2012:

http://www.appacademy.io/applications/new

Weekly Study Groups:

• Monday nights: Noisebridge frontend meetups
• Tuesday Nights: PyLadies Coursera Python Study Group (Mountain View, San Francisco)
• Thursday Nights: CodeChix MIT Python Study Group
• Tuesday nights: WWC Ruby Tuesdays
• Wednesday nights: WomenWhoCode JavaScript Study Group