We did some presentations at Independence High School, got to meet with students and teachers, and headed to LA. Also, Karel made the news! Day 2 was a busy day for Team CodeHS. We started off in Bakersfield and headed to Independence High School. Independence High School is a public school that doesn’t have computer … Continue reading Day 2 // 4/7/2015 // Bakersfield, CA -> Los Angeles, CA
The CodeHS team with our #ReadWriteCode van. Day 1 // 4/6/2015 // San Francisco, CA -> Bakersfield, CA We’re going around on a two month road trip around the US to help bring coding education to schools— follow along! I want to invite you to come on an adventure with us. A computer science education … Continue reading Day 1 // 4/6/2015 // San Francisco, CA -> Bakersfield, CA
Do you use a computer? I think now the question isn’t if you use a computer—but rather, how many computers you use. The computer or phone you are reading this on, the computer you use for work, or school, the computers in your car, the computers that go into making your favorite movie, or favorite … Continue reading Read, Write, Code — Why Computer Science Should be Required in High School
At CodeHS, we make curriculum and tools to help schools teach computer science classes. We have schools all over the country, and we’re going on a road trip with Karel the Dog to visit classrooms and run workshops. We can come visit you! If you are a student, teacher, or anyone else excited about coding … Continue reading We’re Doing a Road Trip to Bring Coding To Schools All Over the Country
We are very excited to announce our new AP Java course on CodeHS. This is a project that has been in the works for years, and we are thrilled to let teachers and students start testing it out today. This course is jam-packed with amazing content, features and tools on both the student side and … Continue reading Announcing the New AP Java Course on CodeHS
Every month at CodeHS we do a one-day all-day team hackathon. A core value for the company is teaching and learning, and as part of that, we like to always be creating teaching and learning opportunities inside and outside of the company. Everyone in the company participates. If you don’t know any programming this is … Continue reading Monthly Hackathons at CodeHS and Building CodeHS Lite
Here is the best way to start being more creative and complete with the work that you do: Write Everything Down. Whether you are managing follow-ups after an important meeting, catching that last crazy idea you had before you fall asleep, or coming up with a new insight that will help you close the deal, … Continue reading Write Everything Down
At the start of 2014 I made a New Year’s Resolution. I never could seem to keep my New Year’s Resolutions, probably for a host of reasons: too many, too complicated, forgot to do them, wrong ones—but this year I was going to complete them. So I made one New Year’s Resolution. Read a book … Continue reading What I Read in 2014
MySQL Doesn’t Install on Mac Yosemite 10.10 How to fix This website had the fix for me: http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-10-yosemite/ Summary was: Download the 64 bit dmg (only 10.9 was available, oddly when unzipped it said 10.8) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Customize the install and uncheck the startup item Manually start mysql from command line and modify path in profile/bashrc … Continue reading MySQL Doesn’t Install on a Mac Yosemite 10.10
How I’m setting up my computer I’m going to try some things differently, and I’ll record how this goes. I lost an old computer, which was a huge bummer so: Turn on Find my Mac. Upgrade my iCloud storage because I’ve been out of space for months. Oops, before 1. I downloaded the Yosemite Mac … Continue reading Setting Up a New Macbook Air (… again)
