girlscancode – Ruth Stalker-Firth

January 9, 2025 Musings

Women in STEM, women in society

To get more young women into technology we need to change the field to make it more welcoming. And to do that, we first need to change society, as technology is a reflection of society. Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth

February 8, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (4): Variables

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] This week was all about variables. In the spirit of copying and

January 30, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (3): Coordinates, confusion and collaboration

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] This week’s lesson was all about coordinates, which I love as I

January 17, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (2): Creating classrooms

My eldest got round the problem by lecturing us on ‘Itler’s Foreign Policy’ and when we weren’t behaving ourselves chased us about and then at one point laughed so hard that she leant on the keyboard and destroyed her classroom which we decided was a sign that it was the end of the lesson.

January 10, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (1): Chicken rain and sky writing

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] I was so cheesed off with the Microsoft denting my ‘do about