As a result, this September, Code First: Girls is running campaigns to coincide with National Coding Week – which this year runs from 16 to 22 September – using Twitter and other social media ...

Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First Girls, said: “We are thrilled to have been able to deliver on our promise to help 20,000 women learn to code – but we are just getting started.

This figure was less than the number of women trained by Code First: Girls in a year, she said, and its courses are usually oversubscribed, with twice as many applicants as places.

When I think back to 18-year-old me, it’s pretty embarrassing. And I’m not talking about the unruly hair or terrible dress sense (although that’s pretty embarrassing), I’m t… ...