Dozens of young women are zealously tapping away at laptops for a four-month primer in software development. Hailing from the underprivileged margins of Lima, the 35 students in the class - all female - are taught JavaScript, CSS, and English-language programming terminology for a fee of $16 a month. This year, it expects to teach about 100 young women whose average age is 20. Though less than a year old, La Laboratoria has already wooed more than $150,000 in grants from sponsors such as Google and telecom firm Telefonica. Peru's tech sector, which has been expanding between 10 and 15 p