4 Reasons Why You Should Learn Python if You Want to...
There’s a reason why Python is frequently crowned the most popular programming language among professional developers and people learning to code. Python is an easy-to-read, versatile programming language that’s used in many different areas of software development. For example, Python has a stellar reputation in data science, explains Ada Morse, Codecademy Curriculum Developer in Data…
Your 2025 Most-Anticipated List
What’s coming up this year that you’re excited about? An important birthday, celebration or milestone? A trip you’re planning to take? A friend who is coming to visit? A class you’re taking? Something you plan to build, make or create? A TV show or movie that’s coming out soon? Anything at all can go on…
What Questions Do You Have About How the World Works?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here.The best entries to the many student contests we run each year grow out of genuine individual interest — topics students choose because they are passionate about them, often because they connect to their own lives in some way.In this special writing prompt, we hope to inspire you to…
Forum 4 | What Is Your Relationship With News?
Where and how do you get your news? How do you know whether to trust it? How do your sources of information affect your understanding of our world?
Data science vs. data engineering: What’s the difference?
Data science is a growing field with a booming job market. Every day, companies look for new ways to use their data, so the need for data professionals has never been greater.Both Data Scientists and Data Engineers rank highly in LinkedIn's list of the top 15 emerging jobs in the U.S. But what's the difference…
Teenagers in The Times: November 2020
Here is the November edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see…
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Could You Live ‘Plastic Free’?
Look at the photo above. What do you think about the statements printed on the totebags? To what degree, if at all, do you agree? Do you ever “refuse plastic,” perhaps by bringing your own bags to stores, avoiding takeout containers, drinking from a cup rather than using a plastic straw (or bringing your own…
Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs
In the screen shot below, you can see a student, Madison from New Jersey, responding to Christian in Pittsburgh. One of the questions Madison asks is, “Are these the effects of naturally increasing temperatures, or the doing of man made emissions?” 4. What’s going on in this graph? Just like photographs, graphs tell stories. After…
Comment on Free Summer Printable Poster – Perfect For Office Decoration...
June 16, 2021 Can you believe it is almost summer? Celebrate it with this free summer printable poster featuring pastel fruits and leaves. It comes with a quote that “Summer is a state of mind.” Do you agree with that? What is your favorite time of the year? I’m usually drawn to bold color shades…
Word of the Day: flail
This word has appeared in 15 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Word of the Day: toboggan
This word has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
How community leader Oluwakemi is pursuing her passion for social work...
Meet Oluwakemi learning from Akinyele, Oyo State, Nigeria. She’s a dedicated social worker and changemaker throughout several non-profit organizations within her community. Read more about her incredible passion for helping people and how she utilized Coursera to expand her skills. Here’s her story in her own words: In November of 2022, I earned a degree…
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The Life-Changing Magic of Being Messy
This essay, by Isabel Hwang, age 17, is one of the Top 12 winners of our Sixth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 10,509 entries. We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up this week, and you can find them here as they post. Excerpts from some will also be…
Optimism
Are you an optimist? Is it easy for you to look on the bright side of things? Is it difficult to feel hopeful but you strive to do it anyway? How do you maintain a cheery disposition? Or is pessimism your prevailing mind-set? If so, do you wish you could be a more optimistic person.…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
How To Get Feedback on a Coding Project — & Why...
As a programmer, you’re probably used to getting real-time feedback on every line of code that you write — a program either runs or it doesn’t. But when it comes to a completed project that you’ve coded (for a portfolio or just for fun), it can be tough to find folks who can give you…
Do You Think the World Is Getting Closer to Securing the...
What do you think? What does “Never again” me to you? Do you feel that genocide is still possible in 2020?Do you think the world has learned the lessons of history? Is international law stronger? Is education better? Is the media too omnipresent to allow a systematic campaign of hatred and violence against any minority…
10 tips for working on a dev team
Whether you're a new or seasoned developer, you'll need to know how to work on a dev team. Some developers prefer to work alone — believing that they're more efficient while working independently — but an effective team is more than just the sum of its parts. Plus, there are several reasons why you might…