The importance of beginning to program young is being understood by more and more educators. Of course there are some private schools that built curriculum around computer programming years ago. Or at public schools there might have been one teacher …
The Smartest Students Aren’t Reaching Their Full Potential
Have you ever stopped to think about the consequences of the "no child left behind" approach to education? It sounds great, we want to make sure that all students achieve a certain level of success in their education. We don't want to abandon the …
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Software is Eating the World and You Should Be a Part of It
Last week successful start-up founder and investor Marc Andreessen wrote an essay in the Wall Street Journal "Why Software is Eating the World". In the article he examines the largest and fastest growing companies in a wide variety of traditional …
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Teens In Tech Incubator Chooses Breakout Mentors for Technical Mentoring
Teens in Tech is running a summer incubator program to help 5 teams of high school students launch a web or mobile product. The program is similar to the other tech incubators generating a lot of press recently, Y Combinator and TechStars, but is …
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Keeping Pace with the Job Demand for Programmers and IT Professionals
There are two major complaints about the status of employment in the United States - unemployment is too high and too many jobs are being outsourced overseas. These are major concerns that hit close to home for many of us - almost everyone knows …
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Learning Programming with Scratch
Scratch is a coding environment designed to allow kids as young as 8 years old to create impressive computer games, stories, and animations. Programming with Scratch is so fun that kids don’t even realize they are learning essential programming …
Providing a Fun Way for Kids to Learn Programming
Ensuring each lesson is fun isn't an afterthought or a nice bonus - it is a vital component for success. If your student isn't having fun, they are not going to be motivated to learn. For a short period of time she may be able to stick it out …
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Is Your Kid Ready to Program?
Parents do not want to rush their kids into something that might be too hard for their age and turn them off for years to come. So how do you know when your kids are ready? First, I want to ease your mind that no age is too young IF the material …