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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
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
Program Your Sphero BB-8 In 10 Minutes (Beginner Friendly)
When you hear the words “Star Wars”, what comes to mind? Jedi, light sabres, space duels and…. droids like BB-8 and R2D2. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the theaters in 2016 we met the latest addition to a
How My Mom Got Me Coding
Do you have a Mom? Um…don’t answer that. As I glanced down at my calendar app on my phone it hit me, 2018 is here. This summer I turn a year older but feel like 25 and if you ask
Stranger Things And Bob Coding BASIC
My daughter called out to me from our family room, “hey Dad, you have to see this scene from Stranger Things”! There is a character named Bob Newby, played by Sean Astin, telling another character that to hack into the
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
How To Build A Webpage: Using HTML (Simple Steps)
Hypertext Markup Language or HTML is not an easy sounding phrase nor a technology that remotely sounds like ‘fun’ but it is at the core of so much we do on the internet today. Let me give you a peek
5 Tips That Will Propel Your Coding Career
5 Tips That Will Propel Your Coding Career As I sit over 10,000 feet in the sky aboard a jet plane looking out the window heading to a great conference called Momentum 2017, I started to reflect on my time
Is Web Page Design Considered ‘Coding’?
Whenever I meet new students wanting to learn how to code, I ask a simple question “have you ever coded?”. The answer is usually “yes” but quickly followed with a “well…sort of”. Some say “yes, I used Microsoft PowerPoint” and
