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Instructors say that the online data science learning platform has failed to meaningfully address an incident that happened at a company gathering in 2017. Continue reading DataCamp Teachers Boycott Their Own Classes Following Sexual Misconduct by Executive
The harassment campaign against one of the researchers who helped photograph a black hole isn’t just sexist, it’s technically simplistic and inaccurate. Continue reading The Sexist Trolls Doubting Black Hole Researcher Katie Bouman Need to Learn to Code
Microsoft developer advocate Chloe Condon created an app to fake a call, to get her off the hook in unwanted social situations. Continue reading This Fake Boyfriend App Bails You Out of Awkward Moments
Modern Labor promises to teach you to code in five months and help find you a job when you graduate—but you’re on the hook for the next two years. Continue reading This Company Will Pay You to Learn to Code, and Take 15 Percent of Your Income Later
I was a little surprised to see a news report about Andreas Schleicher, the director of education and skills at OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Paris, Schleicher thinks that teaching kids to code is a waste of …read more
It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to new coders, and that’s before even considering trying to understand command line compiler settings. The greenhorn coder may find themselves more at home in the warm embrace of an IDE, and [morrows_end] has now built one for those working with AVR assembly code.
The IDE goes by the name of Simple AVR IDE, or savr_ide for short. Programmed in C++ with the …read more
What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? Continue reading The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don’t Want to Deal With It
If data is the new oil, you might think of apps are the cars that need it to move. Now, a startup that has built a platform to let everyone — not just those with technical expertise — make and drive their own “cars” has raised a significant round of funding to grow its business. […] Continue reading Airtable, maker of a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
How to write a video game in 277 characters. Continue reading This Coder Fit a Bootable CD and Video Game Into a Tweet
Anyone who slings code for a living knows the feeling all too well: your code is running fine and dandy one minute, and the next minute is throwing exceptions. You’d swear on a stack of O’Reilly books that you didn’t change anything, but your program stubbornly refuses to agree. Stumped, you turn to the only one who understands you and pour your heart out to a little yellow rubber duck.
When it comes to debugging tools, this digital replacement for the duck on your desk might be even more helpful. Rubber duck decoding, where actually explaining aloud to an inanimate …read more