Girls Who Code aims to make waves in a man's world

Melanie Perez, 15, said she enjoyed finding girls who shared her ambitions and passions at Girls Who Code, a computer science summer program.Steve Jobs is a longtime role model for budding techies. But now he comes with an asterisk.

“I look up to Steve Jobs, but I see that he started everything in a garage with a bunch of men,” said Markie Wagner. “It’s hard to follow in exact footsteps.”

Wagner, who will soon turn 16, is a recent graduate of a computer science program for high schoolers called Girls Who Code.

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In the July 31 Business section, an article about the computer science program Girls Who Code said one of the summer sessions had taken place in Brentwood. It…