CppCon 2017: Sara Chipps “Building for the Best of Us: Design and Development with Kids in Mind”

Video Description

http://CppCon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2017 — Building an API easy enough for kids to understand (in C++) is a challenge. Every design decision, from the circuit board to the plastic can effect the results. We'll talk about product design, manufacturing, firmware, software, and the Arduino API as we cover the Jewelbots timeline from Kickstarter to shipping to distribution. Additionally, hear from the two girls who are the top Jewelbots from the Bellevue area! You'll learn what they have built and how they view the future of C++. — Sara Chipps: Jewelbots, CEO Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012. She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of Flatiron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010, she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software. -- Videos Filmed & Edited by Bash Films: http://www.BashFilms.com *-----* *--* *-----*