August 21st, 2012

5 Ways To Learn Code From The Comfort Of Your Own Browser

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One of the big trends of the past couple years, spurred the growing demand for programmers, is the rise of in-browser programming tutorials. Gone are the days when you’d have to buy a book and configure a development environment before you could get your hands dirty with a little code.

Maybe you want to start learning on your work computer and don’t have access to install a programming… → Read More

August 6th, 2012

Y Combinator Alum MakeGamesWithUs Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iPhone Game Developers

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MakeGamesWithUs is a new iOS game publishing company with a twist: its focus is on helping high school and college students to build games. MakeGamesWithUs us will take the kids’ creations, provide professional graphics and art and publish them in the App Store. The kids will own the code, and the company will own the graphics and take a cut of the sales. The company already has a few games built… → Read More

July 26th, 2012

Codecademy Hires Program or Be Programmed Author Douglas Rushkoff to Promote Code Literacy

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Program or Be Programmed author, CNN columnist and Frontline documentary director Douglas Rushkoff announced on his blog today that he’s taken a job with Codecademy, a company that offer free online programming courses entirely through a web-based interface. Rushkoff writes that he is joining the company as an evangelist much in the same capacity as Vint Cerf’s role at Google as a “net… → Read More