Can we count on Medium to be around in 10 years? I’m planning to look at my blog posts then, too. I spent some time this week looking over coding projects I have done over the last 12 years, which is pretty much about when I started experimenting with coding. I realized a few awesome … Continue reading I’m going to write on Medium. And I’m going to keep copying posts over to my blog.
How many pennies might you passively pay to read an article? Here I’ll outline a model for what micropayments for content could look like with some numbers. According to this link, people in the US spend 32 hours online per month, and 20% of that time reading content. So say people spend 6 hours per … Continue reading A Model For Micropayments for Content
Just a small sampling of the ads I received. It’s that time of the year again. Time to vote on propositions in San Francisco. The Voting Guide is about 200 pages too long, so I can’t imagine too many people are reading it. I’ve read the whole thing and summarized my take here. Reminder: … Continue reading Jeremy’s 2015 Voting Guide to San Francisco Propositions
Step 1: Buy the Domain I usually use Namecheap or Misk to buy the domains. Step 2: Change the Nameservers On Namecheap, go to your domain page, then to the Advanced DNS section, and under DNS/Host Records choose Custom for the Domain Nameserver Type. Then I go and enter in my custom domain name servers. … Continue reading How I Make a New Flipside Website
We’ve been thinking about the problem of creating a great autograder for coding problems for quite some time now. We’re teaching about the power of computing — we want to use that to make the experience of creating and grading problems fantastic for teachers. Now on CodeHS you can easily create your own problems and autograders with … Continue reading These Are The Autograders You’ve Been Looking For
Pink School Buses for Dynamic Large Carpools Dear Lyft, I would like to share with you a Free Idea that you can implement to keep making your app better! Here is the idea: Lyft should buy a fleet of school buses, paint or vinyl wrap them pink, add the Lyft logo and start operating some … Continue reading Dear Lyft, Here is a Free Idea
We are very excited to announce our AP Java course on CodeHS. This is a project that has been in the works for years, and we are thrilled to have students and teachers using it all over the world to learn this year. This course is jam-packed with amazing content, features and tools on both … Continue reading Teach AP Computer Science in Java with CodeHS
Want to teach AP Java to your students? Start Here! Are you planning to teach AP Computer Science in Java with CodeHS this year? Here are a few tips for getting started! You can teach all year for free on our Free plan, and get access to the entire curriculum. If you’d like more teacher … Continue reading Getting Started Teaching AP Computer Science in Java with CodeHS
(big help from http://zaidox.com/os-x-mavericks-virtualenv-and-pip.html, seems this was a common problem) Just to document the issue I had with my local pip, python and virtualenv setup after updating my Mac to 10.10 Yosemite. A few things I saw initially: Virtual env seemed to disappear /usr/bin/python: No module named virtualenvwrapper virtualenvwrapper.sh: There was a problem running the … Continue reading Issues with Pip, Python and Virtual Env After Updating Mac 10.10 Yosemite
We’re introducing a Free Plan and updating our school plans so every school can teach with CodeHS Our mission at CodeHS is to empower students with coding. We believe that students from every zip code can change the world by harnessing the creativity and power of computing. We’ve worked with thousands of students and schools … Continue reading CodeHS For Every Zip Code
