I started coding in the 4th grade on my brand new, first on the block, Commodore 64. Back in the day I spent my summer vacations at computer camp creating endless go-to loops. I am sure most of you have no idea what that even is. Let's just say, I was the kind of little girl that was always buried in a book or playing Pong on the Atari. During the 1990's when Prodigy was new and you could download your email while cooking dinner, I bought myself an HTML for Dummies sort of book. I was getting my Masters in Education. I missed my teaching job at a school for homeless children in Phoenix. I had a toddler and I was pregnant with my second child. In short, I needed something that made sense of the chaos in my life. Something I could control. Code has always been sexy to me in that way. To this day while coding is well into a dimension I can't begin to comprehend, a good "href=" works better than a xanax. That second baby was born and it turns out, with a significant, unexpected birth defect. I turned to a then new innovation for answers: Google. But there wasn't much to find. I dug out that HTML book and used it to put information out there. I figured, I can't be the only ...

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