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Coding to Learn: the 21st Century Curriculum

Peter Hutton | Posted 06.19.2013 | Technology
Peter Hutton

By taking an integrated approach to computer programming, all students will learn to write code before they graduate. At Beaver, innovation is not a buzzword - it's part of our institutional DNA.

Technical Literacy: Can Everyone Learn to Code?

John Pavley | Posted 05.26.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

I believe everyone should learn to code. The skill of coding is no different from the skill of reading and writing English or any human language. I hold myself up as an example: if an art major can learn to code and find success in technology land, why can't everyone do it?

Empowering America's Rising Workforce--Latina Girls--in Computing and Innovation

Dr. Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.30.2013 | Impact
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton

It recently came to my attention, that throughout the nation, young men and women who are Latino are, unfortunately, caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.

Cracking The Tech Job Talent Crunch By Teaching Kids To Code

Aaron Skonnard | Posted 05.16.2013 | Technology
Aaron Skonnard

Most of our children are not focused on becoming creators of technology. They spend countless hours playing games, with little interest in what's powering them. They're incredibly interested in and inspired by their devices -- why can't we connect the dots and turn that into a huge learning opportunity?

How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon -- And What It Means for Women in Tech

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 05.14.2013 | Technology
Eliot Van Buskirk

The question of how to interest more women in technology fields is one of the most important questions facing us today, for many reasons.

Trapped In The Tech Gap

Reshma Saujani | Posted 05.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Reshma Saujani

The young women of Girls Who Code will be our next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. They will create the next Facebook, and spearhead the next social movement. They will lift up their communities and they will use technology to do it.

Iranian-American Tech Brothers Lead Charge to Reform U.S. Educational System

Trita Parsi | Posted 05.09.2013 | Impact
Trita Parsi

In the eyes of most Americans, Iranian Americans are not yet known as givers or as a community that takes the lead for social change in America. That's why the Code.org initiative by twin-brothers Hadi and Ali Partovi is so different.

A Field Guide to Solo Entrepreneurship

Erica Swallow | Posted 05.07.2013 | Technology
Erica Swallow

It's now easier than ever to start a company -- even as a single founder, it's not unimaginable that one could hack his or her way to success in the matter of a few years, and sometimes less.

Man Doubled His Salary By Studying Coding For 9 Weeks

AP | By TERENCE CHEA | Posted 06.12.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college...

Learn to Code Movement: For All Students

Maurya Couvares | Posted 06.03.2013 | Impact
Maurya Couvares

If we want our students to think about careers in software development, we need to provide them with access, information and mentors.

GlassLab and Beyond: Who's the Designer and Who's the Learner of the Next-Gen Game-Based Ed-Tech

Dr. Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.21.2013 | Technology
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton

t the root of all "game-based learning" is the unique opportunity to engage students in learning where they want to be: inside video games.

Crowd Control: TopCoder's 3 Steps to Building Community

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.14.2013 | Technology
Peter Diamandis

I spoke with founder Jack Hughes, who filled me in on TopCoder's humble beginnings at a picnic table, and the way the company approaches its innovative contest-driven, gamified, crowdsourcing solutions.

Arts Versus Sciences: A Dispatch From the Font Lines

John Pavley | Posted 05.02.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

The separation between arts and sciences is one of those areas where contemporary thinking has fallen behind our medieval, Roman, and Greek cultural ancestors. It's an illusion with huge unfortunate consequences.

Is This Thing On?

Dana Reilly | Posted 04.30.2013 | Technology
Dana Reilly

The tools we use should produce code flexible enough to deal with the ever-evolving products they test. And where better to test code against fast-changing, multi-platform content?

Code.org - Coding Is Not as Hard as You Think

Lesley Chilcott | Posted 02.28.2013 | Technology
Lesley Chilcott

You can debate the pros and cons of the internet, social media, and modern technology but the bottom line is it's everywhere. So do you help shape it, or are you shaped by it?

Zuckerberg And Will.i.am Agree: Coding Is Cool

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 02.28.2013 | Technology

If you're dissatisfied with your dead-end job, watching this new Code.org video might push you over the edge and have you quitting before the end of t...

What 90% of Schools Don't Teach

Hadi and Ali Partovi | Posted 04.28.2013 | Technology
Hadi and Ali Partovi

At a time when most English majors graduate jobless, computer science majors are twice as likely to land a job. Computers are our job-creation engine, and programmers earn among the highest salaries in America.

Everyone Should Experience the Joy of Coding

John Pavley | Posted 04.27.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

As a society we talk about outsourcing, downsizing, and retraining but not specifically how important is for everyone everywhere to learn some coding skills. The world as a whole is barreling down a path where those who know how to code will own those who don't.

The Best Money Decision You Can Make Today: Start Learning to Code

Adda Birnir | Posted 04.16.2013 | Technology
Adda Birnir

You heard me right, the best career move any woman (or man) can make is to learn to code. And believe or not, I think that you will enjoy it. Let me tell you why.

Women in Tech and Empathy Work

Lauren Bacon | Posted 03.31.2013 | Small Business
Lauren Bacon

There's absolutely nothing wrong with hiring male programmers, or women, um, empathizers-of-various-stripes. But we do need to shift the culture, expectations, and compensation if we want to end the power discrepancies that result from gendered hiring practices.

Learning to Code from the Other Side of the Digital Divide

Maurya Couvares | Posted 03.25.2013 | Impact
Maurya Couvares

Recently, the media has focused its attention on the idea that everyone needs to learn to code, and that it's easy to do -- online learning only requires a little self-motivation. While these online platforms provide a necessary service, their audience is limited to those who are already computer-literate.

How to Find the Best C.S. Students via Programming Competitions

David Thielen | Posted 01.17.2013 | College
David Thielen

It's a battle out there to find the top computer science students. How to find them and then get them interested in your company is a gigantic challen...

Get Game: Become a Geek in Just One Year

Edward Lando | Posted 02.26.2013 | College
Edward Lando

This is a story for those aspiring entrepreneurs blessed with thoughts and pep, and who just itch to pick up the brush and freaking paint their hearts and minds out -- Jackson Pollock style.

Building and Spreading Knowledge That Matters: Is Computing a Two-Edged Sword, or a Possible Solution?

Dr. Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 02.11.2013 | Home
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton

The new literacy is digital literacy, and at its heart is coding -- computer programming and computational design.

So What's It Like? Participating in the Windward Code War

David Thielen | Posted 01.27.2013 | College
David Thielen

The championship is decided by the total score of 10 runs of the game. You're up, then down, then up again. You've never been so on edge in your life.