It’s not enough to preach teaching kids how to code — today U.S. President Barack Obama took his turn at the keyboard…
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How much do coders make? Check out this data from around the country
What's the best city to be a coder? What languages are the most lucrative? Here's some data from around the country.…
Read MoreKano is an easy-to-use $150 computer for kids and parents to explore technology together
The $150 Kano computer that kids (or anyone else) can build themselves and then use to learn to code, is now available to anyone. My 8-year-old daughter and I took one for a spin.…
Read MoreOpbeat launches out of beta to help developers make less buggy code
Opbeat's cloud-based error-logging service can scan a development team's code in GitHub and then notify the appropriate team member if he or she caused a bug.…
Read MoreHackerRank brings in $9 million to help companies land good recruits
The job-recruitment company's platform uses custom-tailored coding challenges to help organizations get better recruits as well as offering developers the chance to shine in front of would-be employers.…
Read MoreDevelopers are cautiously excited about Apple’s new Swift programming language
Designed to be the successor to Objective-C, Apple's new Swift language has some developers saying that Swift will make coding easier, especially for newbies, and some developers saying it's not the monumental leap forward Apple is claiming.…
Read MoreCodecademy’s new mobile app gets users into the “hour of code”
In conjunction with Computer Science Education Week's "Hour of Code," Codecademy has released its very first mobile app.…
Read MoreHow coding contests can be better at solving problems than Harvard
Harvard recently threw a tough genomics problem to TopCoder's crowdsourced community and discovered the contest not only revealed a much broader field of investigation but provided a high level of motivation to get the problem solved.…
Read MoreCoding Christmas: Codecademy lets you code your own holiday card
On the heels of a new set of project-based courses, New York-based Codecademy on Monday launched CodeCards, a program that enables anyone to create and share their own online holiday cards.…
Read MoreWant to be a reporter? Learn to code
Journalism schools have to do a much better job teaching prospective reporters about the programming skills needed to tell data-driven, visual stories on web pages, not front pages, says the executive director of Northwestern University's Knight News Innovation Lab.…
Read MoreEstonia’s plan to get 6 year olds coding is a stroke of genius
When should children learn to code? Estonia's Tiger Leap Foundation wants children as young as six to be enrolled in coding classes — all part of a national program that has already turned this tiny country into a technological powerhouse.…
Read MoreYou’re hired! Internet stars line up for CodeClub
What do you get when you take Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Chad Hurley, Niklas Zennstrom and a number of other internet notables and get them together for a kids' coding club? A surprisingly funny video, it turns out.…
Read MoreRed hot Codecademy gets $10m from Index and KPCB
Education startup Codecademy -- which promises to help anyone learn to program with its game-like online courses -- is stepping up to the international market with a $10 million round of funding from new backers including Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.…
Read MoreA new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
San Fransciso-based online video course startup Udemy today released the salaries of the top 10 instructors on the 2-year-old platform. All of them earned more than $50,000 on their own and the top individual made more than $200,000.…
Read MoreIf Apple can’t beat jailbreakers, it’ll recruit them
For Comex, a 19-year-old iPhone hacker whose real name is Nicholas Allegra, jailbreaking the iPhone comes easy. The iPhone Dev Team member may have hacked himself a golden ticket, since Apple has come calling and he now has an internship at the company.…
Read MoreDevOps eliminates knee-jerk no’s at the IT level
Cloud computing technologies have helped remove many of the intrinsic barriers programmers used to encounter when developing, deploying and scaling software applications. Now, the biggest hurdles developers often face are human: their own corporate IT teams. That's the problem DevOps aims to solve.…
Read MoreSome iPhone Coders Padding Resumés With Lies
According to a report by the Silicon Alley Insider, if you’re looking to hire an iPhone dev, it’s probably best to make…
Read MoreReader Feedback: Macs as a Superior Development Platform?
So I need your help, dear readers. I’ve taken a new position at my big-boy job, and it’s throwing me back into…
Read MoreWeekly App Store Picks: April 11, 2009
It’s time for the very apex of everyone’s Easter weekend, the all important revealing of this week’s picks from the App Store.…
Read MoreOutsourcing Sites: Threat or Opportunity?
We’ve looked at freelance outsourcing and crowdsourcing sites in the past – places like 99 Designs for graphics work or Elance for…
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