by ray | Feb 4, 2019 | Coding
I’m a 16-year veteran of the tech world, a “recovering coder,” and the mother of a 6-year-old girl. And if I was looking at tech from the outside, I would be freaked the F out right about now. The headlines about women in tech have been bleak these past few years....
by ray | Feb 2, 2019 | Coding
If you have young children like I do between the ages of 5-10 you’re probably all too familiar with the Minecraft craze and may even have the books and foam toys related to Minecraft in your home. In the interest of trying to find some educational value out of...
by ray | Feb 2, 2019 | Coding
Years ago, Grace Francisco was taking apart computers and teaching herself computer science. Today, she is the VP of Developer Relations at Roblox and mother to two girls. Though she was the first woman on many of the software teams she’s worked on, Grace is not the...
by ray | Sep 26, 2018 | Coding
Coding is to be introduced into the national curriculum, but two thirds of parents know nothing about it. Nat Welch/ CC One of the biggest overhauls of the national curriculum in 14 years is to come into affect from Monday, 1 September as information and...
by ray | Sep 15, 2018 | Classes, G Suite
by ray | Sep 15, 2018 | Classes, Cloud Education, G Suite
by ray | Aug 7, 2018 | AWS, Classes
Our instructors have spent their summers getting ready for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. They are finding the courses on Linux Academy and A Cloud Guru helpful. The goal is to take the exam in September. Stay tuned!
by ray | Aug 3, 2018 | Coding
Here is a coding example by one of our instructors. Description You are a ninja! Dodge flying blades, jump over saws, and evade oncoming blocks! But there’s a twist—you move by switching your player’s gravity orientation! See Gravity...
by ray | Aug 2, 2018 | G Suite
Google announced today that administrators of G Suite accounts can now enable and configure a special alert when a government-backed cyber-espionage group is trying to hack into one of their company’s user accounts. This new alert is available via the...
by ray | Aug 2, 2018 | G Suite
The company is launching a new “grammar suggestions” feature in Docs that will catch and suggest corrections for all sorts of language slip-ups, including article errors (“a” versus “an”) and more complicated concepts, like dangling...
by ray | Mar 11, 2018 | Classes, Javascript
by ray | Feb 9, 2018 | Classes, Wordpress
by ray | Jan 25, 2018 | General
Plus, tech giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google will commit new support to coding education President Donald Trump will issue a new directive Monday to supercharge the U.S. government’s support for science, tech, engineering and mathematics, including coding...
by ray | Jan 7, 2018 | Classes, HTML
by ray | Nov 6, 2017 | Classes, G Suite
by ray | Oct 10, 2017 | Classes, G Suite
by ray | Sep 7, 2017 | Classes, G Suite
by ray | Apr 3, 2017 | General
The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/flickr With 2017 still so young,...
by ray | Apr 3, 2017 | General
“Do I give (kid’s name) something educational, or something fun?” As parents, relatives, and friends of people with children, we face this question on the regular – because no matter the occasion, we’re torn between pleasing the child and pleasing their parents. My...
by ray | Sep 22, 2016 | General
If you want to raise creative kids, you need to teach them to think for themselves. To do this, Adam Grant, a professor of management at Wharton, author of the new book, “Originals,” and father of three, tells Business Insider, you need “to foster an...
by ray | Sep 22, 2016 | General
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland — Jan. 19, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella announced a new three-part initiative to ensure that Microsoft’s cloud computing resources serve the public good. As part of this initiative the recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies...
by ray | Mar 5, 2016 | Cloud Education
Cloud Computing Education The benefits of cloud computing are being recognized in businesses and institutions across the board, with almost 90 percent of organizations currently using some kind of cloud-based application. The immediate benefits of cloud computing are...
by ray | Mar 5, 2016 | Cloud Education
OVER THE LAST two to three years, there has been a noticable increase in the number of institutions of higher education investigating and implementing cloud-based solutions for their IT infrastructure. E-mail, calendaring, collaboration, videoconferencing, and even...