He asked her to talk about some of her projects, which at that point included website coding, creating videos inside of games using a popular programming tool Machinima, and writing a popular blog on Woozworld (a virtual gaming world for tweens and pre-teens). Banks was talked into it by her dad, who helps organize the conference. She gave her first keynote about her life as a kid coder in 2013, at the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE, conference. She taught herself to code websites when she was nine by taking a course on W3schools and reading a book her dad gave her. Banks taught herself to code at age 9īanks says she started "getting into tech a long time ago" by firing up a blog when she was six years old (her mother helped her with the typing part). In a self-confident tone, she inspired the 4,000-strong crowd by telling them she wasn't going to be limited by how people label her.Īnd she encourged the audience to do the same. Keila Banks, a 13-year-old inner-city girl who codes, got on stage at the OSCON developer's conference and blew the room away.
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