When a new coding school launched in Herat, Afghanistan, a year ago, some of the teenage girls in its first class had never been online. Some had never used a computer. Now know they Javascript.
The school, called Code to Inspire, is the country’s first female-only coding school. The first class of 50 students, age 14 to 25, graduated recently.
The 29-year-old founder, Fereshteh Forough, had been harassed as a computer science college student herself—and realized that in Afghanistan’s male-dominated culture, where women are discouraged from actively participating, a traditional college classroom might not be the best place for women to learn to code.
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