Our day began with projector hunting and trying o get the projector to work. You always have one technical setback at a tech workshop. Once we got it working, Vicky welcomed everyone and went through a few slides about what Coding Grace is about. And of course where Coding Grace's name came from, our role model, Grace Hopper. Here's a video of her explaining the nanosecond, if you want to watch it again or share with others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

Christina then went through the first two lessons (HTML5 followed by CSS3) along with a live demo followed by everyone going through the freeform exercises.

I have to mention that the facilities at RUA RED are fantastic. The Green Room where we went for our lunch break was bright and airy and they had a full kitchenette for us to use. Sandwiches and goodies platter were provided by Sweet Cicely.

Following the break, Vicky went through the final lesson on more about CSS with a live demo. This is proceeded by the final freeform exercise.

A few things to note from the session:

A big thank you to everyone who came along to the workshop. To our mentors who helped out on the day: Christina Lynch of Ireland Girl Geek Dinners, Ellen Burke and Mick Twomey.

Again, a big thanks to Nora O'Mhurcú (organiser of the /GLITCH festival) for inviting us out to RUA RED to run the beginners HTML5/CSS3 workshop.

We do have the following upcoming workshops:

• Intro to PyGame workshop this Sat (5th July, 11AM-4PM) @ Adverts.ie
• Intro to F# workshop on Sat 12th July (11AM-4PM @ Microsoft Ireland, Sandyford
• RoboCode (Beginners Java) on Sat 26th July (11AM-4PM) @ Adverts.ie

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If you have any questions, email contact@codinggrace.com.

And finally I've also storyfied the day: