A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates
If you care at all about technology odds are that back in February you were one of the roughly 12 million people who viewed the video “What Most Schools Don’t Teach,” featuring the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh encouraging kids to learn to code.
Coding is just a fundamental tool, the same way writing in English and algebra are.
There’s a good chance that your kid’s classroom will be remodeled by the tech industry. After years of more or less resisting the pull of the web, both college and K-12 seem ripe to be remade for the digital age. There’s political buy-in. There’s investor buy-in. There’s a pervasive sense that it’s just time.
The people who get rich are the thinkers who know how to code.
PayScale.com earned significant press attention last week for its list of the College ROI Rankings — an effort to figure out which schools provide the most lifetime earning potential.
Continue reading… “Do software engineers earn more than MBAs?”
If kids are learning math, they should also learn logic.
These days learn-to-code startups abound. There is one in particular that is focusing on the very young and is having some success in elementary schoolsaround the country — even under served schools with no budgets for STEM but a great need for better tools.
Continue reading… “Why your kids should be coding”
The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died.
Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in learning Ruby on Rails. My quick answer is it can’t hurt. The real answer is coming to me.
Continue reading… “Trust the Process”
The demand for coding knowledge is massive.
Could you be sitting on the app concept of the century, but you don’t know the programming basics to create it. Now, thanks to coding courses offered by companies such as DaVinci Coders and Codecademy, people are launching new businesses by taking coding matters into their own hands.
Continue reading… “Coding is the new literacy of the 21st century”
The idea is that children in grades 1-4 will take coding classes as part of their normal curriculum.
Codeacademy and Bloc are hot new startups that teach people to code. They help people learn to program quickly and easily and they have helped spawn a cultural movement lauded by the likes of Tim O’Reilly and Douglas Rushkoff.
But, some people are taking the idea a little further.
Continue reading… “Estonia’s ambitious plan to get 6 year olds to learn coding at school”
Ready, set, CODE!
You’ve learned to code, but now what? You may have some basic skills, but you’re not sure what to do with them. Here’s how to choose and get started on your first real project…
Continue reading… “How to take your first coding project from start to finish”
