Computer Programming

Lilypad Arduino

Adda Birnir | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Women and Technology, Women in Tech, Women in Technology, Women and Tech, Computer Programming, Lilypad Arduino, Technology News

When I tell people that one of my personal goals is to bring more women into tech, and that I plan to do so by making tech learning fun and accessible, a lot of people -- usually men -- worry that what I am doing is patronizing.

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New Video Game-Themed High School Program May Be A Hard Sell

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Computer Programming, Stem, Florida Schools, Graphic Design, Video Game-Themed School, Miami Dade, Career and Technical Education, Video, Magnet Schools, Cte, Technology Education, Science Technology Engineering Math Education, STEM Education, Video Games in School, Video Games, Miami Dade County Schools, Education News

Never mind video games getting in the way of homework or learning time. At one Florida school, video games are homework. A new magnet program at M...

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Jews Should Lead The Battle Against Technological Illiteracy

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Computer Programming, Programming, Education Technology, Video, Talmud, Judaism, Codeacademy, Religion News

By Liel Leibovitz Tablet Magazine Next month, more than 1.5 million American college students will graduate with bachelor degrees. Nearly all of t...

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Why Etsy's Sending Women To 'Hacker School'

The Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Computer Programming, Etsy, Female Training, Female Engineers, Summer 2012, Female-Engineers, Female Education, Hackers, Women News

Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, is sending women to Hacker School this summer. Marc Hedlund, Etsy's vice president of engineering,...

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What Is the Hypernet?

Roger McNamee | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Internet, Hypernet, Html, Online Investing, Tech Investing, Html 5, Computer Programming, Android, Ios, Open Source, Open Source Software, Technology News

The world thinks about the online world in terms of a network layer (The Internet) and a software layer (The Web). It's no longer so simple. I propose that we refer to the new network layer -- the sum of the wired Internet and the mobile data infrastructure for cellular and Wi-Fi -- as the Hypernet.

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The National Intercollegiate Programming Championships

David Thielen | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Code War, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Purdue University, Cornell University, University of Illinois, Computer Programming, Computer Code, Computer Programmers, National Intercollegiate Programming Championship, Video, College News

This upcoming January will see the first intercollegiate programming code war, with multiple teams competing from most of the top computer science colleges in the country.

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Why Google's Eric Schmidt Is Only Partly Right About Science & Tech Education

Ewan McIntosh | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Computer Programming, Google, Scottish National Party, Speech, United Kingdom, England, The Guardian, Ewan McIntosh, Edinburgh, Mgeitf, Eric Schmidt, Scotland, Curriculum, Edinburgh Festival, Education Reform, Technology, UK Education, Education News

It's a shame that Eric Schmidt he didn't Google a little more on the education system of the country in which he was speaking. Scotland.

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Balanced Life -- Why Is Computer Programming Fun? (For Some People.)

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Tips, Computer Programming, Creativity, Lists, Books, Frederick Brooks, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: Five reasons for the joys of craft, or, Why is programming fun? I recently read (sort of) ...

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Pac-Man Is The New Teacher In Town

The Daily Camera | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Computer Programming, The University of Colorado Boulder, Space Invaders, Middle School Education, Pac-Man, Game Design, Rod Falk, Denver News, La Veta Middle School, Frogger, Denver News

Rod Falk's middle school students create their own arcade classics like "Frogger," "Pac-Man" and "Space Invaders" in his computer lab. Falk, who te...

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After This: Notes on the Computer Revolution

Lindsay Edmunds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Computer Programming, My So-Called Life, Internet, Computers, Foghorn Leghorn, Netflix, Apple Macintosh, Washington Apple Pi, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Nintendo Wii, Mac Plus, Books News

I was witness to an amazing hinge in history: those days in the late 1980s and early 1990s when personal computers were about to change the world forever and everybody knew it.

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Learning Environments that Crack Open Brains (and Souls)

Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.25.2011

Researchers at the Media Lab, are letting their brains crack open, dreaming up big ideas, combining art and science and play, producing and presenting their demos, and inventing their future.

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Why Johnny Can't Program

Douglas Rushkoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing to India, Computer Programming, Outsourcing, Computer Literacy, Program or Be Programmed Rushkoff, Computers, Outsourcing to China, Programming, Facebook, Manufacturing Jobs, Program or Be Programmed, Books News

Ask any kid what Facebook is for and he'll tell you it's there to help him make friends. What else could he think? It's how he *does* make friends. He...

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The God Project: Hinduism as Open-Source Faith

Josh Schrei | Posted 03.04.2010

Read More: Computer-Programming, Open Source, Religion, Yoga, Hinduism, Spirituality, Coding, Religion News

The key point of differentiation between Hinduism and these other faiths is not polytheism vs. monotheism. The key differentiation is that "Hinduism" is Open Source and most other faiths are Closed Source.

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