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…
Post Webinar Q&A: The Science Behind How Our Employees Learn
The science behind how your employees learn is nothing short of a fascination for many. For Barbara Oakley, it’s an obsession! Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University and the creator of some of the most popular courses on Coursera. She focuses on the fundamentals of how people learn, combining neuroscience and social…
4 Tips for Tackling Workplace Anxiety
Chris Harley is a mental health professional based in San Francisco. He is passionate about improving the lives of others and combines his PhD in Clinical Psychology with the latest holistic and wellbeing therapies to provide the very best care for individuals seeking to improve their mental health. Besides practicing as a mental health professional,…
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’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 22, 2021
4. After you have posted, read what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting a comment. Use the “Reply” button to address that student directly.On Wednesday, Sept. 22, teachers from our collaborator, the American Statistical Association, will facilitate this discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.5. By Friday morning, Sept.…
Word of the Day: rueful
The word rueful has appeared in 34 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 6 in “For Megan Rapinoe, an Ending Not Even She Could Have Imagined” by Jeré Longman:It ended in the most excruciating way for Megan Rapinoe: a penalty kick skied over the crossbar, shock, disappointment, a rueful smile to…
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Word + Quiz: redoubtable
redoubtable ri-ˈdau̇-tə-bəl adjective 1. inspiring fear 2. worthy of respect or honor _________ The word redoubtable has appeared in 15 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 24 in the obituary “Norman Goodman, 95, Dies; Summoned Manhattanites to Jury Duty, Like It or Not” by Margalit Fox: For generations, his…
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: doldrums
This word has appeared in 111 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Python vs. JavaScript: Which should you learn as a beginner?
When you start programming, it can be tough to decide which programming language to learn. Both Python and JavaScript are great choices for beginners, but what are the differences, and why would you want to learn one over the other? In this article, we'll take a look at both languages to figure out which one…
How to Start a Blog or Website
January 2, 2022 Updated for 2022 Are you a new blogger or a seasoned Blogspot or WordPress.com blogger wanting to switch your blog over to self-hosted WordPress? Or, are you wanting to build a website or blog? Then you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we will show you how to start 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…
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Would You Clone Your Pet?
The former N.F.L. superstar Tom Brady recently announced that his dog Junie is a clone of his dead pit bull mix, Lua. What’s your reaction?
11 Golang Interview Questions With Answers
Golang (or Go) is an open-source programming language created and developed by Google. It's intended to be a high-performance server-side language that can replace languages like C++ and Java while also being easier and simpler to use.Golang is used widely for back-end web development, DevOps, machine learning, and blockchain development. It's still a relatively new…
The Top UK Cities for Online Learning in Lockdown
The UK joined a third of the world’s population in lockdown this year. The Prime Minister announced lockdown measures starting on the 23rd March to slow down the spread of the virus and reduce excess deaths. As a result, 8.9 million workers were furloughed from their jobs and record numbers of people Googled home office…
Teenagers in The Times: April 2019
Here is the April 2019 edition of Teenagers in The Times. This roundup of news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com appears on the first Thursday of each month during the school year. For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please…
Word of the Day: encyclopedic
This word has appeared in 72 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Super Bowl, Political Scandal, Polar Vortex
Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of the Fox television show “Empire,” was attacked in Chicago early on the morning of Jan. 29 by two people who yelled and wrapped a rope around his neck, according to the police, who said they were investigating the incident as “a possible hate crime.”