Kids Coding Mentors
It has been a well established fact for years that there simply aren't as many women engineers as men. Computer science has one of the lowest ratios with anywhere between 5 and 20 percent female, depending upon the source. But there have been a few …
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In the past I have shared articles written by Sheena Vaidyanathan. Mrs. V is a local thought leader in the kids programming space and on the front lines bringing coding into the classroom. She is a rotating teacher for all the Los Altos School …
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In the past we've touched on the trendy buzz for "learning to code" and how people as diverse as Michael Bloomberg and will-i-am have jumped on the bandwagon. If you have people that are wildly successful in other disciplines (like business, …
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For people that grew up with the internet, they can't imagine life without it, and don't give a thought to how it works. An analogy is how my generation views the radio or television. There are some seriously impressive things going on under the hood …
There is a lot of activity in the teaching how to program space. Organizations and companies are continuously sprouting up - some are just for kids, some are geared towards high schoolers, and some are to get adults jobs. Even though I feel it is …
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A CNN opinion article by Douglas Rushkoff went into the highlights of his speech to Congress during Computer Science Education Week. Here are some of my favorite points he made: 2. Programming a computer is not like being the mechanic of an …
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Programming is a difficult subject to understand because it is so unlike the others. Every person that has learned it likely has a different experience, especially with today's adults. The subject has changed, and still is changing, at an incredibly …
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Frank is a Stanford senior studying Symbolic Systems that works with two Breakout Mentors students in both Java and Python. He teaches in Stanford's introduction to programming course that is one of the most popular classes on campus, so he is …
One of the advantages of working with a programming mentor is that the student hears repeated use of programmer lingo. Words like function, method, parameter, return value, class, instance and property are used by the mentor when helping the student. …
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Ed is one of Breakout Mentors' excellent programming mentors who works 1-on-1 with students. He has an impressive computer science background, graduating from Stanford in 2010 with a masters in Computer Science (focus on artificial intelligence), …
