Girls Who Code - U of M

Student Organization at @umich promoting diversity in Programming and STEM.

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[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Apply for our 2024 Girls Who Code Summer Experience! We will meet daily for a week to teach Python programming skills to high school learners. Check out the info in the attached flyer, and apply here!
https://t.co/cKf059WkqJ

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

We have guest speakers each Tuesday evening from 6:30-7:00 via Zoom. You can sign up for whatever Tuesday works best for you! reply to this tweet if you're interested, and one of our executive committee members will reach out via DM!! 🙂🖥️✨👾

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Do you do cool work with programming? Great news! @GirlsWhoCodeUM is looking for guest speakers!! Our students love to hear about all sorts of careers where they can use programming in the real world. If this sounds interesting, shoot us an email! More info in the next tweet:

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Applications are due tonight by midnight! Don't miss your chance to apply for this amazing opportunity!

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Apply for our 2022-2023 academic year Girls Who Code Club! We meet weekly via Zoom to teach Python programming skills to high school learners. Check out the info in the attached flyer, and apply here! https://t.co/9mJASw7c3g

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Don’t forget to submit your applications for our Girls Who Code club this year!! We’d love to have you in our (virtual) classroom! Priority is given to those who apply by September 12! 💻💞🧑🏽‍💻

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Apply for our 2022-2023 academic year Girls Who Code Club! We meet weekly via Zoom to teach Python programming skills to high school learners. Check out the info in the attached flyer, and apply here! https://t.co/9mJASw7c3g

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Apply for our 2022-2023 academic year Girls Who Code Club! We meet weekly via Zoom to teach Python programming skills to high school learners. Check out the info in the attached flyer, and apply here! https://t.co/9mJASw7c3g

[Dr. Audrey Drotos 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos]

Our @GirlsWhoCodeUM club is graduating tonight so they’re giving their final presentations, which are absolutely amazing, and I’m so freaking proud of them I could cry. Hands down the best part of grad school = getting to watch them succeed. The future is in good hands. 💕

[Brooke N. Wolford, PhD @bnwolford]

Shout out to @umichmedicine PhD candidate @kelly_sovacool for giving an awesome interactive Git workshop for colleagues & me @NTNU_ISM K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epi. One of the best live programming instructors I’ve ever seen (must be all the @GirlsWhoCodeUM experience ☺️)

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Seeking applicants for our free, virtual 2 week Summer Experience! High school students interested in learning data science with Python are encouraged to apply, no prior coding experience required. 🐍👩‍💻📊Please RT/share!
https://t.co/gMVCvZ85Cg

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Congrats to our co-founder Zena Lapp for winning the Excellence in Service Award! 🥳🎉

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

We're grateful for the reviewers and editors who volunteered their time and made this possible. Their feedback surely made the curriculum and paper all the better!

Thank you @ThomasArildsen, Jens Lechtenbörger, @JasonWilliamsNY, & @LorenaABarba!

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

The paper accompanying our Python for data science curriculum is now out in @JOSE_TheOJ! You can read it here: https://t.co/eWnf5GRUeL

Here's our thread from when we published the preprint: https://t.co/1c3dwPTmSY
#Python #DataScience #GirlsWhoCode

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Our preprint describing our curriculum to teach Python for data science in our #GirlsWhoCode club is now on bioRxiv! 💻🐍📊
https://t.co/NIQKeq6XHm
🧵 Check out the thread below for a summary:

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

huge thanks to @sciencebanshee, tonight's guest speaker at our weekly club! she gave a great talk about how she uses programming to study the intersections between neuroscience and music, the importance of different brain regulatory networks, and her love for @lizzo !

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

In our last #ThursdayTipsandTricks we showed how you can create lists with one line of code using list comprehensions in #Python.

Well you can also create dictionaries and sets using a similar syntax! We think comprehensions are pretty handy:

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

List Comprehensions are our favorite way to create lists in Python!

```
names = ["Sarah", "Katie", "Hayley"]
[name for name in names if "y" in name and name.startswith("H")]
#> ['Hayley']

[name.upper() for name in names]
#> ['SARAH', 'KATIE','HAYLEY']
```
#ThursdayTipsAndTricks

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Want a reason to upgrade your code base to Python 3.5+? Seamlessly merge 2 dictionaries like so:

2019Facilitators= {1:"Kelly", 2:"Audrey", 3:"Zena"}
2021Facilitators = {2:"Audrey", 4:"Sarah", 5:"Katie"}
all = {**2019Facilitators, **2021Facilitators}

#ThursdayTipsandTricks

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

So you write a fancy function that has multiple outputs. How do you return them all? Easy, peasy in Python!

def my_func(arg1):
x=arg1+1
y=arg1*2
z=arg1-3
return x,y,z
a, b, c = x(arg1)

Now the variables a, b, & c have the output from my_func! #ThursdayTipsAndTricks

[Dr. Audrey Drotos 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos]

Seeking Ypsi & other high school teachers (not necessarily near Ann Arbor!) who could spread the word to students & parents about our free, fully virtual @GirlsWhoCodeUM school year club! Pls tag/comment, we’re looking to expand our reach! 🧑🏼‍💻👩🏽‍💻

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Sometimes we're all a little random. Even Python!

import random as r
my_list = ["girls", "who", "code", "at", "UM", "DCMB"]
print(r.choice(my_list))

Use this method to pick a random element from list, tuple, or string (anything indexable).

#ThursdayTipsAndTricks

[Girls Who Code - U of M @GirlsWhoCodeUM]

Come code with us! we still have so much space for new students, we can’t wait to learn with you! 🤩👩🏽‍💻

[Dr. Audrey Drotos 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos]

The @GirlsWhoCodeUM application for our 2021-2022 virtual club is now live! We are looking for rising 10-12th graders who want to learn data science in a supportive environment. No prior coding knowledge needed! Please RT👩🏽‍💻 https://t.co/aeNClBbPbu