Word of the Day: paragon
The word paragon has appeared in 47 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 29 in the obituary “Dianne Feinstein, 90, Dies; Oldest Sitting Senator and Fixture of California Politics” by Robert D. McFadden:Dianne Feinstein, the grande dame of California Democrats who became the mayor of San Francisco after a horrific double…
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: aperture
This word has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Ask a Data Engineer: Warby Parker Edition 👓
Codecademy’s very own Nick Duckwiler (left) and Ryan Tuck from Warby Parker (right) in our office. (📷: Mitch Boyer) Last month, Codecademy and Warby Parker came together to work on a special Learn SQL from Scratch Capstone Project. It was during this time when I met Ryan Tuck, a Data Engineer at Warby, who played…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | March 22, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the…
What 2023 Work of Art or Culture Would You Recommend to...
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Barbenheimer. This has been a blockbuster year for art and culture. Have you been impressed by what has come out so far?What have you seen, read, watched, listened to, visited or otherwise experienced in 2023 that you found so meaningful, memorable or simply extraordinary that you would urge everyone to experience it?…
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Not Traveling for the Holidays? ReLAX With an Airport-Related Game
Many Americans won’t be visiting relatives for Thanksgiving this year in light of the pandemic. With this puzzle you can still experience the thrill of travel, minus the crowds. Fill in each Thanksgiving-related phrase on the departure board using airport codes from the boarding passes.Each boarding pass contains the answer for a line on the…
Cybersecurity Career Spotlight: What it is and how to get started
Welcome to another special issue and our first Career Spotlight. This week, we’re exploring cybersecurity in celebration of the upcoming launch of the Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate. Cybersecurity professionals protect data and computer networks from cyber attacks. There are several cybersecurity career paths, each of which is responsible for a different aspect of cybersecurity, like identifying threats,…
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…
What Is User Acceptance Testing (UAT)?
In 2020, a survey by Original Software found that almost 90% of respondents agreed that user acceptance testing (UAT) is a key part of achieving high-quality results in software development. But what is user acceptance testing?User acceptance testing is the final testing stage in software development before production. It's used to get feedback from users…
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Live Webinar: Talking About Race and Racism in the Classroom Using...
Register for the live webinar on March 4 at 4 p.m. Eastern time.Our students are living through history, from the protests following the killing of George Floyd while in police custody to the insurrection at the Capitol, all while dealing with a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black and brown communities. Though stories of…
‘I Struggled to Understand the Concept of Love’: The Week 10...
Our Summer Reading Contest is our longest-running challenge and perhaps our simplest: To participate, all you have to do is answer the question, What got your attention in The Times this week? Over the course of 10 weeks this year, we received 10,144 answers to that question from teenagers around the world. To help us…
Word + Quiz: traduce
traduce trə-ˈdüs verb1. speak unfavorably about or blame while employing false statements or misrepresentation2. betray or go against_________The word traduce has appeared 15 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 11 in the Magazine interactive “The Comfort of Common Creatures” by Helen Macdonald:In Britain, comparisons to the Second World War…
Google opens an intense learning program on Udacity
Google recently declared that it’s launching an intense learning program to particularly initiate online course provider Udacity (MOOC). Intense learning is a progressively more admired category of AI (artificial intelligence). Speaking, in general, it entails guiding artificial neural systems on heaps of data — for instance images — and acquiring them to create inferences regarding…
What Are Your Thoughts on a Possible TikTok Ban?
It’s been a whirlwind week for TikTok and its roughly 170 million users in the United States.On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law that effectively banned the Chinese-owned social media app.Late on Saturday, the app went dark nationwide. But less than 24 hours later, it came back.Then, on Monday, President Trump signed an…
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…