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…
Is It Immoral to Increase the Price of Goods During a...
Find all our Student Opinion questions here.In “He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them,” Jack Nicas writes:On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving…
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…
Word of the Day: cognizant
The word cognizant has appeared in 133 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 29 in “Part-Time Farmers, Part-Time Rock Stars: A Chinese Band’s Unlikely Rise” by Vivian Wang, which is about Ba Nong, the frontman of the band Varihnaz, who worked as a graphic designer in a large city when he…
Explore the Tech Underlying the Metaverse and Web3 in our Intro...
It seems like every day the internet is buzzing with news and rumors about Web3, as the Metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs become more popular. But what exactly is Web3?Conceptually, Web3 is projected by many to be the next phase of the internet — a decentralized digital space based on blockchain technology that minimizes the need…
Coursera’s Enterprise Learning Platform Now Available in AWS Marketplace
By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer, Coursera Coursera’s enterprise learning platform is now available for purchase in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Starting today, technical teams using Amazon Web Services (AWS) can easily search and deploy online learning for their organizations using Coursera. Coursera’s robust enterprise offering includes access to courses from the world’s leading…
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Lesson Plan: How to Improve Your Focus
If you struggle to sit through a class or complete a homework assignment without wanting to check your phone every few minutes, this lesson can help.
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…
A new view of the cosmos
This week we have had unprecedented news: On a historic day, NASA has allowed us to see the first color image of the new space telescope, the James Webb, Hubble’s successor, which has given us a first look at the origin of the universe. Knowing more about the James Webb Telescope According to the NASA site, the…
Color Love | Orange + Teal
August 24, 2021 Don’t you just want to crawl right inside this inviting teal and orange color palette? Teal and orange fall opposite of each other on the color wheel which makes them the perfect color pair in any blog design. Teal blue recharges the spirit, alleviates stress, and is always a showstopper in blog…
Want a Machine Learning Job? You’ll Need To Know How Recommender...
Most of us have experienced the uncanny accuracy of recommender systems before. For example, you were online shopping for a new keyboard one day, and then haunted by ads for other keyboards on your Instagram feed for weeks. Perhaps you liked a funny TikTok of a pig, and now your For You Page is all…
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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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…
Weekly Student News Quiz: Election Day, World Series, Floods
Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what the photo shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you'll find the answer.Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
Internet Affirmation
Do you think that the time you spend online fosters more positive or negative emotions? What are some of your favorite, uplifting corners of the internet to visit? What tricks do you have for curbing or avoiding the negativity that can be prevalent on social media sites?Tell us in the comments, then read the related…
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…