How to mint a Karel NFT You may have heard of NFTs, but not know what they are. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token, and in this post I’ll show you how you can mint your own Karel NFT. If you want to just skip and see what a Karel NFT looks like you can see … Continue reading How to mint a Karel NFT
Modern Distributed Software Tech Stack in 2019 Here are a few tools we are using CodeHS which I feel have become standard, or at least seem really common for software and distributed work setups. It’s hard to claim they are standard, but I think anecdotally I have seen them used in many cases. Zoom — we use this … Continue reading Modern Distributed Software Tech Stack in 2019
Why We Switched to Distributed Work at CodeHS About a year or so ago, we switched CodeHS to be a fully distributed company. This means we changed our policies and went to supporting it fully. We had supported it partially in the past, with a few people not in our San Francisco office, but it was … Continue reading Why We Switched to Distributed Work at CodeHS
Tips on Applying to CodeHS I’ve read a lot of job applications now, I think many thousands at this point as we have worked on CodeHS. I am not a hiring or HR expert but have a few tips that could help if you are someone who is interested in applying to work with us at … Continue reading Tips on Applying to CodeHS
We’re excited to be launching the first online blended Introduction to Cybersecurity course for K12 this fall at CodeHS. Each week in the news you’ll hear about a new cyber attack, or a major company or organization that was hacked. In a connected digital world, this has become commonplace. But as important data moves increasingly … Continue reading With the CodeHS Cybersecurity Course, Teach Your Students, Practical, Applicable Digital Skills
What is the blog? We have a blog at codinginthewild.com which shares the amazing applications of coding and computer science across industries. The goal of the blog is to create a great resource for students and teachers in middle school and high school to understand how the skills they are learning can be applied in the real world. … Continue reading Contributing to the Coding in the Wild Blog
I woke up recently and realized that I was pitching CodeHS in my dream. I think this highlights the idea that if you are a co-founder or CEO of a small startup, you are pitching your company 24/7. No one knows what your company does. You need to find a way to articulate it clearly … Continue reading 10,000 Pitches
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
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
