If you’re a part of the coding or tech community and you have a milestone coming up that you’d like to celebrate, organizing your party around a computer theme is a fun and interesting choice! Continue reading for some tips on how to make yours the best it can be! Craft well-designed and tech-oriented digital… Continue reading Tips for Throwing a Computer-Themed Party
Category: Coder Blog
Skills You Need in a Tech-Driven Career
Tech-driven careers are high in demand these days with all of the technological advances we’ve made in just a short ten years. Twenty years ago, our cell phones and laptops were big enough to be used as weights! So if you’re thinking about joining ANY techy career, there are some things you need to think… Continue reading Skills You Need in a Tech-Driven Career
How to Train Your Brain to Type Faster
We all want to be able to type faster — it not only saves us time, but it also just makes our lives that much easier. Sure, you can practice, but if we can’t train our brain to follow along, then there’s really no point, right? Well, as it turns out, there ARE ways to… Continue reading How to Train Your Brain to Type Faster
How is Coding Fun?
The word “coding” has a lot of connotations with it — with many leading to “hard work!” It can be a challenge, but challenges offer incredible opportunities. A lot of young coders, before they even dip a toe into the coding world, ask themselves, “What about coding is cool? How can it be fun at… Continue reading How is Coding Fun?
Why Small Class Sizes Are Important
If there’s one thing that is often overlooked when it comes to instruction, it’s class size. A lot of people don’t even realize that there is a greater benefit to the student when smaller class sizes are in effect, rather than the large 20-something average you find in most public K-12 classes. In large universities,… Continue reading Why Small Class Sizes Are Important
How to Inspire the Leaders of Tomorrow
We often hear the saying “our children are our future,” and we just roll our eyes because it’s hard to think about someone who can’t legally drive or vote or do anything remotely “adult” being in charge of us all. But we need to. If your child is on the cusp of graduating high school,… Continue reading How to Inspire the Leaders of Tomorrow
Anvil: A New Standard for Python Web Development?
By Camille D, age 16 Create comprehensive websites simply by dragging and dropping, using Anvil – a Python-based service that takes a multifaceted approach to full-stack web development. Even with other platforms such as Squarespace and Weebly dominating the ecosystem of drag and drop-based web development, Anvil provides a direct path for users to not… Continue reading Anvil: A New Standard for Python Web Development?
Fun Tools for Tech Lovers
You never really know what’s out there until you search for it. That’s probably the very paraphrased version of a wise proverb, but in this case, it’s literal! If you love technology and, honestly, you kind of have to at this point in the world’s evolution, you need to know that there are way more… Continue reading Fun Tools for Tech Lovers
Publishing on the App Store: A Journey Part One
By Ethan S., Age 15 The App Store is the crown jewel of Apple’s gated tech community. I wondered what it was like to publish on the App Store and decided the only good way to know would be firsthand experience. So I set out on my journey to… Continue reading Publishing on the App Store: A Journey Part One
Ways to Improve Your Typing Speed
We have to type for just about everything now, from school reports and homework to research and job applications to the regular nine-to-five job; we have to type at least once in a while. When we do, we can either speed through the words like we’re a cyborg meant for this one specific task, or… Continue reading Ways to Improve Your Typing Speed