Episode 1: Linda Liukas, programmer, programming coach, speaker and author of Hello Ruby

Linda Liukas is a programmer, programming instructor, a children's book author and an entrepreneur. She's the founder of the international Rails Girls community for girls and women who want to learn coding. She's also the author of best-selling children's book Hello Ruby, which she financed through a super successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014. Since then she has published two more Ruby books. Last spring she attended the TED conference Residency program in New York City and also won the largest design prize in China, the DIA Gold award. Linda's task is to increase the number of creators in the world by democratizing programming. In this episode we discuss why learning coding is so important, and what is the role of programming in designing the future. Why does Linda think programmers need to get smarter - and fast? She also tells us the story behind Rails Girls community and how it spread rapidly all around the world, why is open-air karaoke cool and about her enormous crush on Al Gore.

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Episode 1: Linda Liukas, programmer, programming coach, speaker and author of Hello Ruby is an episode from Helsinki Design Week Podcast by Helsinki Design Week.

This episode is 29:54 long.

This episode was published on Aug 23, 2017.

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