Category: Life
BASICBlogCoding
Music and Programming: A Talk With Dave Recchione
When a friend asked if he can try out the Scratch Coder Course, I thought it would be great. That friend is also a professional with over 30 years of software programming experience. I wasn’t sure what he would think. ...
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AlumniBlogCareer
5 Ways To Get Your Career Moving (Free and Low Cost)
As a teacher and mentor you often get an email from a former student that contains the phrase “you probably don’t remember me….” They often then contain a request for a letter of reference which, if they were a good ...
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2-XLBASICBig Trak
How My Mom Got Me Coding
Do you have a Mom? Um…don’t answer that. As I glanced down at my calendar app on my phone it hit me, 2018 is here. This summer I turn a year older but feel like 25 and if you ask ...
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BASICBlogCoding
Stranger Things And Bob Coding BASIC
My daughter called out to me from our family room, “hey Dad, you have to see this scene from Stranger Things”! There is a character named Bob Newby, played by Sean Astin, telling another character that to hack into the ...
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BlogEducationFreidman
Machine learning and will robots take control?
Machine learning and will robots take control? “Some day software will write itself and we won’t need programmers.” This was said by my freshman computer science teacher to us as computer science students in 1986. Here we are ...
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BlogCoding CareerLife
5 Tips That Will Propel Your Coding Career
5 Tips That Will Propel Your Coding Career As I sit over 10,000 feet in the sky aboard a jet plane looking out the window heading to a great conference called Momentum 2017, I started to reflect on my time ...
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Behind the ScenesBlogCamp
My Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp Que the “Wayne’s World” flashback effect… I shook his hand after the college graduation ceremony. He was one of my best students and he reminded me it all started ...
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BlogCodingCoding
1983 and Why Learn To Code?
Growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s, I saw the rise of video games. The large coin operated video game machines were new and exciting. Couple that with Star Wars and you have one interested kid…me. I found myself saying ...
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