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…
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…
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…
Digest #184: Arts for Learning and Wellbeing in Education
Cover image by Kampus Production on PexelsBy Carolina Kuepper-TetzelRecently, I have become interested in the impact of engaging in art on learning and wellbeing. This interest has sent me into a rabbit hole of fascinating research and has sparked new ideas for my own teaching practice. In today’s digest, I’m sharing resources around this topic.…
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…
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…
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CREATIVITY
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook The Oxford Dictionary defines creativity as the use of imagination or original ideas to create something. The mention of imagination brings to mind a program that my children used to enjoy watching when they were younger, Barney…
7 Python Interview Questions to Practice
This article is part of a series by our friends at Career Karma, focused on tech industry careers. Check out previous posts on JavaScript technical interview prep, tech salaries, and technical resumes.There is no better way to prepare for a technical interview than to practice a few coding questions. It may be impossible to account…
FutureLearn updates: Assignments and Course Descriptions
Submit an assignment and get feedback from your tutor You can now submit assignments for tutor feedback and grading. Tutor marked assignments are a step in a course which will allow you to submit a written response to a question set by the course provider. One of the educators can then give you feedback either…
Word of the Day: emulsify
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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…
AIU Slides: Wetlands
Previous Next This series are a call to action to preserve our wetlands. During the last 55 years 35% of the wetlands have disappeared. #aiuslides #aiu #wetalnds #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #globalwarming
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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…
5 Soft Skills To Learn (& Show Off) To Land A...
If you’re planning to work in tech, you’re probably already in the process of building up your hard skills — learning how to code and diving into programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and other tools you’ll need to do the job. But what about your soft skills?Software developers don’t work in silos. They’re part of a…
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…
Yasser Allaham: “The courses gave me the confidence I was looking...
“My name is Yasser Allaham. I am 36 years old. I am from Syria and I live in Damascus. I have a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Higher Diploma in Marketing and Research Management.” How did you learn about Alison? My journey with Alison began in 2012. At the time, I was searching Google…
10 PHP Code Challenges for Beginners
You can only fill your head with so much coding theory and knowledge from courses and books before you need to put those skills to the test. If you’re a PHP developer, one way to practice your skills is by building a website or web application. But, there’s a much simpler and less time-consuming way…
Snow Globe
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.What story does this image inspire for you?Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration — or tell us about a memory from your own life that this…