Ep. 62 - Hello Ruby (Linda Liukas)

Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned about the coding journey as she helps kids start their own.

Show Links

• Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
• Rails Girls
• Codecademy
• Hello Ruby
• Hello Ruby Kickstarter
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Linda Liukas

Linda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in over 260 cities. She loves Muji, Zelda Fitzgerald, software and sparkly things.