Tag Archives: Education

kickingbear – Learn to X

There’s a prob­lem amongst pro­gram­mers it’s the clas­sic when you have a ham­mer every­thing looks like a nail. Programming/Coding is our ham­mer, per­haps a really advanced ham­mer but still just a hammer.

January 2, 2012 – 9:40 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Culture, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

The Kernel – The golden age of the developer

I’m try­ing to do more of this mov­ing for­ward even in lit­tle bits and pieces I think help me stand out as a devel­oper and it’s good to help the com­mu­nity which pro­vides the basis of so much of my daily income (CakePHP, jQuery, etc).

December 28, 2011 – 4:57 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Some really inter­est­ing stuff in here.

October 29, 2011 – 1:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Fraser Speirs – A Supercomputer in Every Backpack

Same prob­lem I’ve been think­ing about for a long time, our edu­ca­tion sys­tem is built for the jobs of the past not the jobs of the future.

September 11, 2011 – 12:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Wired – How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

Some really impres­sive work going on here.

July 17, 2011 – 8:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Yahoo! News – Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools

This seems like a cool idea, and I imag­ine would cre­ate stu­dents more skilled in crit­i­cal think­ing and logic, all good things.

April 19, 2011 – 1:21 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

jacquesmattheij.com – what a programmer does for a living

I did some­thing sim­i­lar to this when teach­ing an Intro to Com­puter Sci­ence course.

March 8, 2011 – 1:33 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off