UPDATED: Canadian Coding Camp Bitmaker Labs Is Back In Business | ReadWrite
Learn-to-code programs go up against the status-quo education system. Now at least one code school has learned that it might also be going up against the law.
See the full article: Canadian Province Cracks Down On Coding Schools – ReadWrite.
See also: Canadian Hacker School Goes Dark After Government Probe | WIRED
Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launching within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications – for free.”
Google’s only service for creating websites right now is Google Sites, which allows you to easily create basic sites and wikis from pre-built templates. That product has lingered without any meaningful updates for a while now, so maybe Web Designer will be a more sophisticated replacement for Sites’ editor.
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both. Here are some of the best tried-and-true apps for teaching kids of all ages how to code.
via How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code | LifeHacker
Apps discussed cover from the very young to older learners and include:
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Collection of Links: Resources for Learning to Code | The Modern MLIS
As the coding education bubble swells, there’s room for some companies to target more specific audiences, including women exclusively. Fifty percent of the female population isn’t exactly a niche group, but it’s not a frequently targeted market in the technology industry, either.
No Boys Allowed: Four Coding Schools Just For Girls – ReadWrite
The article covers the following organizations:
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Even in library school we have opportunities to learn to code! Hope to see more coding programs incorporated into secondary school education and on.
15 Programming Skills Most Coveted By Employers – ReadWrite
See article for full discussion. Here is the list!
15. Ruby
14. ASP.NET
13. AJAX
12. Objective-C
11. PHP
10. Python
9. Perl
8. C
7. C#
6. XML
5. C++
4. JavaScript
3. HTML
2. Java
1. SQL
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Collection of Links: Resources for Learning to Code | The Modern MLIS
Update (August 30, 2015): Coding resources available on the Internet are listed here.
I began learning to code more than a decade ago during my undergraduate days at university sitting in a darkened room in front of a SunSystem computer running Unix. I programmed in C++ and Java for endless hours. I never complained about my biology and math labs and tutorials again after taking a computer science class! I did not realize at the time how useful I would find this skill in future years. During my Masters, which I completed in 2012, I learned to program in HTML/XHTML and CSS from the ground up, although I had prior knowledge from building my own websites. Now my next goals are to learn to code PHP and APIs. I not only want to learn these languages to bolster my resume but to learn more about the fundamentals of Internet and mobile architecture. How they are connected. I think learning to code is a great way to learn how to solve problems.
I find it surprising how popular coding is becoming, especially in libraries. Although now with the morphing of hackerspaces and makerspaces in libraries maybe its not so surprising. Librarians are known for being pioneers in education, learning and collaborative efforts after all. We can now even learn a programming language by attending a conference session – the 2013 ALA Conference in June will be presenting a LITA Pre-conference Introductory Python Workshop. 2012 was known as Code Year. With this push for awareness and education of coding there are now numerous resources one can use to learn abut coding and how to code. Here are a few of them:
Literacy
Learning to Code
APIs/Apps
The Necessity of Information Scientists and iSchools: Separating Technology from ‘Magic’ via Information Space @ Syracuse University iSchool
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