Engineering Empathy: Tears and Fears at Dev Bootcamp
"My superego runs on a disappointment platform," said the coding student, holding his head in his hands.
View ArticleHow Better Tech Education Can Unlock a Half-Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Thirty-five million students have now taken Code.org's "Hour of Code" course.
View ArticleFounder of Code.org and Harvey Mudd President: Don’t Call It STEM (Video)
Computer literacy is for everyone.
View ArticleSix Things I Learned at the Code Conference
Walt Mossberg calls out six interesting observations from the first Code Conference.
View ArticleAs Its Learn-to-Code Board Game Ships, ThinkFun Hopes Parents Will Get It
"It’s not like Candy Land, where you’re just moving things around."
View ArticleKano Lets Kids Build Their Own Computers and Learn to Code
Kano lets kids build their own PCs and learn to program with a nice combination of simplicity, education and even charm.
View ArticleBarbie Is Blind to the Many Girls Who (Really, Actually) Code
Come on, Barbie. Have you learned nothing since your 1992 "Math class is tough!" gaffe?
View Article‘Universities Are Selling Salvation’: Touring the New General Assembly Campus
Success will be when there's a Vows column with two people who met here.
View ArticleFive Ways Obama’s TechHire Initiative Will Drive Diversity in the Industry
“It turns out, it doesn’t matter where you learned to code," Obama said, "it just matters how good you are at writing code. If you can do the job, you should get the job.”
View ArticleWhy We All Need to Make the Internet Fun Again
The edges are smart, and what might seem weird today often becomes tomorrow’s norm.
View ArticleJessica Alba’s Honest Company Gets Behind Girls Who Code, Hosts Summer Program
Eighty young women participated in Girls Who Code's first summer immersion program in greater LA.
View ArticleTeach Your Children Well (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac & Snaggy.
View Article‘Star Wars’ Partners With Code.Org for Hour of Code Tutorial
“We want to make coding more fun, cool and hip.”
View ArticlePresident Obama Wants $4 Billion to Bring Computer Science to All Schools
But the administration needs congressional approval for most of those billions.
View ArticleCode.org CEO Hadi Partovi Says Young People Should Study Computer Science,...
"How does the Internet work? How does cyber security work? How is data encrypted? These are all part of computer science."
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