Category: Education
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Learn Programming At Home: A Free Course To Get Started
We are surrounded by technology. Whether you think it is great or a distraction it really has crept into every part of our lives. Today we communicate with each other using smartphone apps, select movie from our couch after viewing ...
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5 Ways To Get Your Career Moving (Free and Low Cost)
As a teacher and mentor you often get an email from a former student that contains the phrase “you probably don’t remember me….” They often then contain a request for a letter of reference which, if they were a good ...
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Machine learning and will robots take control?
Machine learning and will robots take control? “Some day software will write itself and we won’t need programmers.” This was said by my freshman computer science teacher to us as computer science students in 1986. Here we are ...
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My Top 5 Tips For Teaching Coding
These are my top 5 tips for teaching coding that I applied over the past 20 years. Since I have been teaching students in higher education how to work with technology and young kids how to code, I learned a ...
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Why Scratch Is Great For Learning To Code
When I was thinking through this week’s blog entry I had a brief conversation with a parent who had stated they wanted to spark the curiosity of their daughter to learn how to code. The parent was knowledgeable with technology ...
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Design Your Coding Project: Storyboards And Psuedo Code
Software coders from various generations all know that a good software project (app, game, enterprise software, etc) all start with a plan. When you study computer science or software development at a college or university you learn this thing known ...
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My Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp Que the “Wayne’s World” flashback effect… I shook his hand after the college graduation ceremony. He was one of my best students and he reminded me it all started ...
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A Simple Explanation – The Internet Of Things
Whenever I hear the term “Internet of Things” I actually smile (because it is my favorite thing) and almost laugh. I have been around technology and computers long enough to have seen some terms become very popular but sound very ...
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Did you learn a programming language in school?
This past week I saw this graphic that displayed many of the programming languages that are part of the computing world. When I looked at it, I first was impressed by the cool graphic and how it showed data visually. ...
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