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How to Get Your Kid Coding When You Don't Know How to Code Yourself

Jamie Tolentino | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Learning to Code, Hopscotch, Kids Coding, Daisy the Dinosaur, Children, UK Universities and Education, Coding, UK Children, UK Tech, Kids Online, Teach Kids Coding, Children Online, UK Tech News
Jamie Tolentino

Want your kid to be the next Zuckerberg or another programming genius but don't know how to code yourself? No problem.

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Can Learning to Code be a Fun Social Activity?

Jamie Tolentino | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Learning to Code, Jamie Tolentino, Codeyear, Meetup, Coding, UK Universities and Education, Javascript, UK Tech, UK Schools, Networking, UK Tech News
Jamie Tolentino

Probably so. Well, at least that's what I experienced in the first London Code Year meetup.

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How to Geek Yourself up From Scratch

Jamie Tolentino | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Geek, Learn to Code, Codeyear, Computer-Science-Classes, Codecademy, Coding, UK Tech, UK Tech News
Jamie Tolentino

Code Year (www.codeyear.com) is all about teaching beginners how to code this year because they claim that it's not too late to learn how to code.

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The Code Less Travelled

Matthew Hewson | Posted 17.03.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: UK Tech, Codeyear, Coding, Computing, UK Universities and Education, Coding Education, Michael Gove, UK Schools, UK Tech News
Matthew Hewson

I can't code. I wouldn't know where to begin. As an avenue of learning, I've not so much missed the turning as driven to the wrong city. Such attitudes to coding are, it seems, quite widespread.

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Open Education and Freedom to Teach Computing

Emma Mulqueeny | Posted 11.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Read More: Teach Programming, Open Education, Coding, Michael Gove, Coding for Kids, Young Rewired State, UK Schools, UK Universities & Education News
Emma Mulqueeny

I think anyone vaguely awake in the education and digital space cannot have failed to notice that 2012 is the year of Computer Science, of coding and kids. 2011 was a cacophony of noise about why this was so terribly important, and 2012 is reaping the rewards.

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The 'Geeks' Are Coming

Jamie Tolentino | Posted 11.02.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Jamie Tolentino, War of the Words Open Mic, 'Geeks' Are Coming, Web Entrepreneurs, Web Developing, Mark Zuckerberg, Start-Ups, Coding, UK Tech, UK Tech News
Jamie Tolentino

I believe that 'geek' will become the norm, not the exception. So we have to skill up accordingly.

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The Tech Revolution Is Here -- The Pioneering New Company Changing How We Teach Children (and Adults) About Technology

Matthew Hussey | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Computer Programming, Programming, Education, Teaching, Technology, Stoke-Newington, Coding, Decoded, UK Tech, UK Tech News
Matthew Hussey

The next generation of app developers are still being taught a national curriculum from the '90s -- prioritising how to use software as opposed to teaching them to make their own.

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I'm Fab. I'm Techie. I'm Sad. What Kind of Facebook User Are You?

Sorab Shroff | Posted 24.09.2011 | UK

Read More: Facebook Updates, Google+ Updates, Facebook Login, Google+, Coding, Facebook, Facebook Search, Yo Bro, Google+ Circles, UK News
Sorab Shroff

People's Facebook updates cheer me up no end. They seem to contain all of human life - how we are and how we secretly desire to be seen by others.

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