Ep. 89 - Mobile Developer (Kaya Thomas)
Kaya Thomas has done a lot in a short period of time, like meet Michelle Obama and develop a mobile app. She talks about how she’s managed to be so successful while still a college student and her process for learning new coding skills so quickly.
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Show Notes
Kaya Thomas has done a lot in a short period of time. She’s met first lady Michelle Obama, she’s a mobile app developer, and she was selected as Glamour’s Top Ten College Women of the Year. She talks about how she’s managed to be so successful while still a college student, the role of luck and hard work, and her process for learning new coding skills so quickly.
Show Links
- Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
- Processing.js
- Tilt Factor Labs
- GitHub Pages
- Professor Mary Flannigan
- Meta data games
- We Read Too
- 2048
- Black Girls Rock
- Reshma Saujani
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Kaya Thomas
Kaya Thomas is a junior at Dartmouth College where she is majoring in Computer Science. In August 2014, she launched her own iOS application called We Read Too. We Read Too is a book resource application that showcases a directory of hundreds children's and young adult books written by authors of color. We Read Too has now grown to over 600 books and over 5,000 user downloads.