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My wife has expressed an interest in learning to program and has been studying basic html/css.

What are some blogs of women who have/are learning to code that I can point her towards?

Mary Rose Cook: http://maryrosecook.com/blog/archive

Julia Evans: http://jvns.ca/blog/archives/ also http://jvns.ca/projects/

Most of their articles are about technical topics beyond the beginner level, but each has some articles about learning and teaching in their archives.

Tara Mahoney: https://medium.com/the-chronicles-learning-web-development-a...

By a web designer self-taught in HTML/CSS, learning Ruby/Rails at a coding bootcamp.

Strong second for Evans blog. I love that blog.

Also -- these two are mostly technical, advanced:

Jessica McKellar: http://web.mit.edu/jesstess/www/

Allison Kaptur: http://akaptur.com/blog/archives/

This one is mostly about teaching and learning:

Django girls (Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka): http://blog.djangogirls.org/

Joanna Rutkowska is hardcore low-level Intel platform security, which in her case involves a tour of the guts of Intel chipsets: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/

her overview of SGX is worth the read (at least for me) http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/08/30/thoughts-on-intel...

Probably not as interesting as the others here but I have a blog where I write about my snail simulation (and in the past other hobby projects). Not all posts contain code but many do, especially in the 'dev' category:

http://liza.io/category/dev/

Maybe she should start a blog, too! I love following other dev blogs and I found that writing down what you've learned in a day or thoughts in general really helps to solidify the learning in my head, so blogging helps in that way.

I like Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me and Nicole Sullivan: http://www.stubbornella.org/content/

While not a blog, Girl Develop It [1] is an active community that encourages female developers and provides them with numerous opportunities to learn the craft via classes and community support. A number of chapters exist in various cities throughout the US and there are high chances of it being present in your city as well.

[1] https://www.girldevelopit.com/

People have mentioned some great blogs! Another one that came to my mind is Jennifer Dewalt, who built 180 websites in 180 days to teach herself coding: http://jenniferdewalt.com/

I'm always interested in what Katie Cunningham has to say.

http://therealkatie.net/blog/

I've been looking for other blogs by other women out of curiosity, even if gender is not really important for a programming blog.

I occasionally blog too, you can check out at http://blog.cindypotvin.com/

I do not know understand, what relation does the gender of the teacher have to their ability to teach? Or is it an example that it can be done?

Role models/mentors are important.

I still don't understand how gender plays into this, I have no data to support my presumptions. But I would think that it might make an effect but not a significant one.

There exists a vast array of academic literature, philosophic theory, and rampant opinion on the role of role models; structural delegitimization of the experience of those economically, socially, or politically disadvantaged; and the diverse ways in which humans learn from experience. Searching for and availing yourself of those resources would probably be the most advantageous way to address any substantial curiosity you might possess on the topic.

Then again, it stands to be somewhat more work than what can be proffered with the caveat "I have no data to support my presumptions".

Really? You don't see any advantage in having someone to ask for advice who has likely gone through similar situations that you'll find yourself in?

The Ask-er asked a very straightforward question. Can we not derail it with a giant thread about the validity of a "help me generate a list of" question? "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer, if you're stuck.

This isn't a compile-a-list-for-me site, it's fair game to question whether restricting yourself to female only blogs is the best course of action here.

Just any programming blog. I don't see why it matters if the author is a female, you won't even notice that by looking at the code. Unless you're implying code written by a female looks different?

Exactly, we're being downvoted for stupid reasons.

Can women not be inspired by or learn from men?

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