New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
Hybrid careers … that combine computing with other fields will increasingly be the new American jobs of the future, labor experts say. In other words, the nation’s economy is going to need more cool nerds. But not enough young people are embracing computing — often because they are leery of being branded nerds.
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The Beauty and Joy of Computing (new intro CS class at UC Berkeley)
Dry. Difficult. Irrelevant. That’s how students in CS39N described computer science CS and programming BEFORE they took the introductory course.
Fun. Easy to learn. Can relate to it. That’s what they were saying eight weeks into the class.
It’s music to the ears of Dan Garcia, Brian Harvey, Colleen Lewis B.S.’05 EECS and George Wang, who are [...]
Useful Reference: The Many Species of Geek
via Infographic of the Day: The Many Species of Geek | Design & Innovation | Fast Company.
Don’t Set the Bar Too Low
Here is what I like to think: that Charles Ives wrote that piece as a lesson for me and people like me. His ego was such that he showed how good he was not by dazzling us with a complexity that creates distance and separates him from us, but with clarity that says, “You too [...]
