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The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast
12 Easy Ways to Teach Kids to Code: Hour of Code & CS4Ed Week 2024

The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 10:17


Get ready for CS4Ed Week 2024 and the Hour of Code with this special episode of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast!

The Angular Show
S3 E10 - The Dev Life | Charlotte Cheng on Thinking Your Way Through Any Problem

The Angular Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 48:34


EPISODE DESCRIPTION:Dragons, Shark Tank, and Emperor Preston? In this Dev Life edition of the Angular Plus Show we explore how programmers can leverage Design Thinking and Computational Thinking to conquer any problem. Charlotte Cheng from CodeCombat.com joins the show to explain how these frameworks optimize your process for every-day tasks, bugs, more complex features, and overall architectural design. She then shares ideas for how you and your team can implement initiatives to practice learning these ways of thinking so they become more automatic as you go about your work. Get ready to learn how to foster creativity and innovation that will take your app to entirely new levels. This is… The Dev Life!LINKS:https://twitter.com/charlottedrawshttps://charlotte.art/https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottechengdesigns/https://codecombat.com/homeGrace LinThe Books of BeginningThe Wee Hours10 Minutes Till BedtimeEdTech Adventures Podcasthttps://codecombat.com/podcast/computational-thinkinghttps://codecombat.com/robloxhttps://codecombat.com/aiCONNECT WITH US:Charlotte Cheng - @charlottedrawsBrooke Avery - @jediBraveryPreston Lamb - @PrestonJLamb

Professor Game Podcast | Rob Alvarez Bucholska chats with gamification gurus, experts and practitioners about education

Charlotte Cheng is the Senior Education Manager at CodeCombat. With over 20 years of curriculum design experience, she has developed curriculum content for CodeCombat, Wonder Workshop, the Walt Disney Company, LeapFrog, and several EdTech startups. Her expertise is creating effective and engaging content for kids at the intersection of education, media, and technology As part of her work at CodeCombat, Charlotte hosts and produces the EdTech Adventures podcast, which explores the role of technology, STEM, and creative play in education with expert guests. Charlotte has also taught in a variety of K-12 classroom settings and one of her workshops was featured on ABC News. She received her BS in cognitive science and MA in elementary education at Stanford University.

Professor Game Podcast | Rob Alvarez Bucholska chats with gamification gurus, experts and practitioners about education

Devoted video gamer with 30+ years experience and started playing on ZX Spectrum. Worked 10 years as a telecommunication and software engineer before making a pivot to game development and education. Worked at CheckiO and created a ton of coding mini-games and puzzles for programmers. For the last 7 years, we have been working at CodeCombat in different roles from level designer to game developer and lead game designer back.

Dev.Life
S2E07 | Charlotte Cheng on Gamifying Programming

Dev.Life

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 56:25


SHOW SUMMARY:In this episode, we talk about game-based learning and gamification in the enterprise with Charlotte Cheng from CodeCombat.com. Using CodeCombat as an example, Charlotte talks about the benefits of using games as a platform for teaching and learning and how games help students take part in their own learning process. She then discusses how these same concepts and principles can also be used with programming teams at companies to help developers build strong & collaborative relationships as well as to learn new libraries, tools, and technologies. LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottechengdesigns/https://www.charlotteillustrations.com/Charlotte's Favorite Illustrators:Molly Idle: http://www.idleillustration.com/Amber Ren: https://www.amber-ren.com/Dan Santat: https://www.instagram.com/dsantat/?hl=enSophie Diao: https://www.sophiediao.com/Xindi Yan: http://xindiyanart.com/Diana Toledano: https://www.diana-toledano.com/CONNECT WITH US:Charlotte Cheng @CharlotteDrawsBrooke Avery @JediBraveryErik Slack @erik_slack

MindHack Podcast
How to Hack your Motivation and Productivity - Nick Winter

MindHack Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 54:48


MindHack is a podcast by Cody McLain that seeks to break down the routines, habits, mindset, and ideologies of successful people, scientific studies, and popular books. This is a self-help podcast dedicated to finding out the keys to success, happiness, and limitless productivity.  Nick Winter is the co-founder of the highly successful startup, CodeCombat, a free-to-use educational gaming company that teaches players the fundamentals of computer programming.  He's also the author of the book, The Motivation Hacker and conducted a series of experiments over 3-months time to create good habits, learn new skills and push himself to achieve more. In this incredible episode, we dig into goal-setting, creating new habits, dealing with burn-out and so much more!

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DevDiscuss
S3:E6 - How to Gamify Coding

DevDiscuss

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 44:33


In this episode, we talk about gamified coding with senior curriculum developer at CodeCombat, Charlotte Cheng, and lead developer of TwilioQuest at Twilio, Kevin Whinnery. Show Notes DevNews (sponsor) Triplebyte (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) RudderStack (sponsor) Pluralsight (sponsor) CodeCombat TwilioQuest Wonder Workshop LeapFrog Disney English Code.org Girls Who Code JavaScript Python Git Ozaria C++ Code School Codecademy Node.js Ruby Java HTML CSS React Scratch Electron Slack Visual Studio Code Phaser Tiled Unity GameMaker

Python Bytes
#200 No dog-piling please (it's episode 200!)

Python Bytes

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 32:19


Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training Python Testing with pytest Brian #1: How to be helpful online Ned Batchelder When answering questions. Lots of great advice. We’ll focus on just a few here. Answer the question first. There may be other problems with their code that they are not asking about that you want to point out. But keep that for after you’ve helped them and built up trust. No third rails. “It should be OK for someone to ask for help with a program using sockets, and not have to defend using sockets, especially if the specific question has nothing to do with sockets.” Same for pickle, threads, globals, singletons, etc. Don’t let your strong opinions derail the conversation. The goal is to help people. Strong reactions can make the asker feel attacked. No dog-piling. Meet their level. “Try to determine what they know, and give them a reasonable next step, not the ultimate solution. A suboptimal solution they understand is better than a gold standard they can’t make use of.” Say yes. Avoid absolutes. Step back. Take some blame. Use more words. “IRC and other online mediums encourage quick short responses, which are exactly the kinds of responses that will be easy to misinterpret. Try to use more words, especially encouraging optimistic words.” Understand your motivations. Humility. Make connections. Finally: It’s hard. All of Ned’s advice is great. Good meditations for when you read a question and your mouth drops open and your eyes stare in shock. Michael #2: blackcellmagic IPython magic command to format python code in cell using black. Has a great animated gif ;) Just do: %load_ext blackcellmagic Then in any cell %%black and magic! Accepts “arguments” like %%black -l 79 Tobin Jones has been kind enough to develop a NPM package over blackcellmagic to format all cells at once which can be found here. But it’s archived so no idea whether it’s current. Brian #3: Test smarter, not harder Luke Plant There’s lots of great advice in here, but I want to highlight two parts that are often overlooked. “Write your test code with the functions/methods/classes you wish existed, not the ones you’ve been given.” “If the API you want to use doesn’t exist yet, you still use it, and then make it exist.” This is huge. People tend to think like this while coding, but forget to do it while testing. Also. Your tests are often the first client for your API, so if the API in question is under your control and you need an easier API for testing, consider adding it to the real API. If it’s easier for testing, it may be easier for other clients of the API as well. “Only write necessary tests — specifically, tests whose estimated value is greater than their estimated cost. This is a hard judgement call, of course, but it does mean that at least some of the time you should be saying “it’s not worth it”.” Michael #4: US: The Greatest Package in the World by Jeremy Carbaugh A package for easily working with US and state metadata: all US states and territories postal abbreviations Associated Press style abbreviations FIPS codes capitals years of statehood time zones phonetic state name lookup is contiguous or continental URLs to shapefiles for state, census, congressional districts, counties, and census tracts The state lookup method allows matching by FIPS code, abbreviation, and name Even a CLI: $ states md Brian #5: Think Like A Coder Part of TED-Ed “… a 10-episode series that will challenge viewers with programming puzzles as the main characters— a girl and her robot companion— attempt to save a world that has been plunged into turmoil.” Although, I only count 9 episodes, I was 4 episodes in and hooked. Main cool thing, I think, is introducing terms and topics so they will be familiar when someone really does start coding: loops, for loops, until loops, while loops conditionals variables path logic permutations searches tables recursion Big O Also highly recommended for getting excited about coding: Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World TED-Ed has tons of other cool series on lots of subjects. CodeCombat Michael #6: Costs of running a Python web app for 55k monthly users How much does running a web app in production actually cost? KeepTheScore is an online software for scorekeeping. Create your own scoreboard for up to 150 players and start tracking points. It's mostly free and requires no user account. Keepthescore.co is a Python flask application running on DigitalOcean and Firebase. It currently has around 55k unique visitors per month, per day it’s around 3.4k. Servers and database on DigitalOcean: Costs per month: $95, the servers are oversized for the load they’re currently seeing. Amazon Web Services: Costs per month: $60, use a reporting tool called Metabase to generate insights and reports from the database Google Cloud, costs per month: $1.32, for Firebase DNS hosting, costs per month: $5 Disqus, costs per month: $10 Is it worth it? Is there revenue? In total that’s around $171 USD per month. If you’re running a company with employees that would be peanuts, but in this case the cost is being borne by a single indie-developer out of his own pocket. The bigger issue is that on the revenue side there’s a big fat zero. This is the reason why we are currently working on monetization. Some Talk Python stats: Maybe 40k monthly visitors, but oh, the podcast clients 3M requests / month just RSS, resulting in 320 GB / mo of XML traffic. We run on two prod servers: $10 & $5 as well as a dedicated MongoDB server @ $10. Total $25/mo. On the other hand, Talk Python Training's AWS bill last month was over $1,000 USD. You can hear a bunch about this on Talk Python 215. Joke: From twitter, originally from Netlify: "Oh no! We lost the hackers! Where did they go?" "I don't know! They just ransomware!” Number of days since I have encountered an array index error: -1.

Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers
#278 Teach kids Python with real programming and fun games at Code Combat

Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2020 65:28


If there is one message I've been pushing across all of the Talk Python episodes, it's that programming is a superpower. Rather than all of us abandoning what we're interested in and becoming CS majors, we can take our passion or expertise and 10x it with a little programming skill. In that case, we should be teaching kids fluency in programming at a younger age. And yet, almost every platform or example meant to do so pulls its punches. We'll teach kids programming concepts but not code itself. That's a bridge too far. But it's not! That's why I'm excited about Code Combat. It's an online coding platform that uses real Python syntax to guide your hero, visually, through a dungeon full of challenges. Yet the editor and customized error messages mean this is approachable for kids before they can even type reliably. On this episode, we'll meet Nick Winter, one of the cofounders of Code Combat. There's a lot of philosophy behind the tool and technology to make it kid-friend and real Python at the same time. Oh, and it's running Python in the browser. Links from the show CodeCombat: codecombat.com On Twitter Code Combat: @CodeCombat Nick Winter: @nwinter Nick's website: nickwinter.net Code Combat on GitHub: github.com/codecombat Brett's learnable programming talk: worrydream.com Ozaria: ozaria.com Sponsors Talk Python Training Linode

Concordia Ed Tech Podcast
Tech Talk Roundtable 07-10 | Robotics

Concordia Ed Tech Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020


Description (domo arigato Mr. Roboto) That’s right we’re talking about the rock band Styx … well, not really. But we are talking about … wait for it … robots! Not really the “Klaatu barada nikto” Gort-style robots of The Day The Earth Stood Still fame, but the less earth-threatening kind. You know, the kind that our kids build, program, and operate right here in school. Lessons Learned Dennis - https://www.classroomscreen.com/ A simple tool to help manage your classroom. Daniel -  Private Channels in Teams - You must create a new channel. Chris - Android phone-controlled robots! “Most robots are run by the Arduino board, and there are wireless Arduino shields which allow the robot to communicate wirelessly by using a Bluetooth or WiFi module.” https://robotsauthority.com 10-ideas-for-school-robot-projects Fun Fact Automatons Radiolab Episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radiolab-clockwork-miracle Want to see the mechanical monk? https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-450-year-old-clockwork-monk-is-fully-operational-5956937 Notes & Links 10 Reasons Why Your School Must have A Robotics Program Coding and Computer Science. ... Maker–based Learning. ... Career Skills. ... Arts: The “A” in STEAM / Digital Arts Instruction. ... Innovation, Problem Solving, Creativity. ... Motivation and Engagement. ... Collaboration and ”Cooper-tition” ... Sport of the Mind / 'e-Sport' Engineering STEM learning across the curriculum Life & Developmental Skills (ok, that’s 11) Don’t have time for a robotics class?  Integrate Robots into your curriculum. GR1 - Program robots to move on a number line to model addition and subtraction sentences. ELA - Storytelling. Program robots (Ozobots) to be the actor in a story. So many curriculum ideas and lesson plans to explore - CodeHS and CodeCombat and CodeSpark for Educators/Librarians and Hour of Code (https://hourofcode.com/hk/en/learn)

Shifting Our Schools - Education : Technology : Leadership
Episode 103: 1 Tech Coach And A Whole Lot Of Teachers! With Guest David Stiner

Shifting Our Schools - Education : Technology : Leadership

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2019 52:00


This week Chris Butler and I chat with new tech coach David Stiner and talk about the ups and downs of being a coach and coaching strategies when you are the only technology coach in the district. Links: Twitter: @madtechteacher CodeCombat: https://codecombat.com/ TikTok Education in India:  https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/tiktok-education-edutok-india/ TikTok as a High School Club:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/style/high-school-tiktok-clubs.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/11/13/tiktok-powerful-teaching-tool-or-classroom-management.html

Devchat.tv Master Feed
DevEd 037:  Code Ninjas & Community Learning

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2019 51:18


In this episode of the DevEd podcast, David Graham - founder and CEO of Code Ninjas, introduces himself, gives a background of how he got into software development, briefly describes his vision that led to the creation of Code Ninjas and the interesting work that goes on there. The company essentially consists of coding centres for kids in multiple locations throughout the US, with cool learning programs catering to several age groups, its main purpose being teaching hands on software development combined with a lot of fun.  The panelists share their views about the current state of programming education in schools, if it is adequate, and what can be done to supplement it. They discuss that it is important to teach kids how to think and how to solve problems rather than relying on memory based learning. They mention ways to get students excited about programming, different learning tools and platforms, and similarities and differences in learning patterns between kids and adult learners.They talk on why should everyone care about coding education for kids, even those who do not have them, and how people can help out in getting youth involved in software development. They also discuss if there is anything they wish had existed to aid learning for young individuals also how it would help them in return. In the end, David explains how can people volunteer for Code Ninjas. Panel Brooke Avery Sam Julien Mike Dane Preston Lamb Joined by speacial guest: David Graham Sponsors Thinkster.io iPhreaks - Devchat.tv Views on Vue - Devchat.tv ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood will be out on November 20th on Amazon.  Get your copy on that date only for $1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links Code Ninjas Code.org CodeCombat Picks Mike Dane: JBL Clip 3 David Graham: The Wheel of Time Preston Lamb: Disney+ Brooke Avery: Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit Sam Julien: Create Your Own Hacker Nebula with Angular Blockly by Jeff Whelpley & Madelyn Whelpley Blockly ng-club The DevEd podcast is produced by Thinkster.io and published by DevChat.TV.

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DevEd Podcast
DevEd 037:  Code Ninjas & Community Learning

DevEd Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2019 51:18


In this episode of the DevEd podcast, David Graham - founder and CEO of Code Ninjas, introduces himself, gives a background of how he got into software development, briefly describes his vision that led to the creation of Code Ninjas and the interesting work that goes on there. The company essentially consists of coding centres for kids in multiple locations throughout the US, with cool learning programs catering to several age groups, its main purpose being teaching hands on software development combined with a lot of fun.  The panelists share their views about the current state of programming education in schools, if it is adequate, and what can be done to supplement it. They discuss that it is important to teach kids how to think and how to solve problems rather than relying on memory based learning. They mention ways to get students excited about programming, different learning tools and platforms, and similarities and differences in learning patterns between kids and adult learners.They talk on why should everyone care about coding education for kids, even those who do not have them, and how people can help out in getting youth involved in software development. They also discuss if there is anything they wish had existed to aid learning for young individuals also how it would help them in return. In the end, David explains how can people volunteer for Code Ninjas. Panel Brooke Avery Sam Julien Mike Dane Preston Lamb Joined by speacial guest: David Graham Sponsors Thinkster.io iPhreaks - Devchat.tv Views on Vue - Devchat.tv ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood will be out on November 20th on Amazon.  Get your copy on that date only for $1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links Code Ninjas Code.org CodeCombat Picks Mike Dane: JBL Clip 3 David Graham: The Wheel of Time Preston Lamb: Disney+ Brooke Avery: Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit Sam Julien: Create Your Own Hacker Nebula with Angular Blockly by Jeff Whelpley & Madelyn Whelpley Blockly ng-club The DevEd podcast is produced by Thinkster.io and published by DevChat.TV.

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DevEd Podcast
Dev Ed 021: Learning Through Storytelling

DevEd Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 49:32


Panel Joe Eames Jesse Sanders Luis Hernandez Mike Dane Sam Julien Brooke Avery Joined by special guest: Emma Mulqueeny Episode Summary In this episode of the Dev Ed podcast, the panel is joined by a distinguished guest, Emma Mulqueeny, digital transformation strategist and an eminent technologist, founder of the Rewired State and Young Rewired State organizations, the goal of which was to bring together young developers to contribute to government services in the UK, Commissioner for the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy and a Google Fellow. She has been awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) honour in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours list for her significant contribution to the fields of digital democracy and education. She has been included in the 166th annual edition of Who’s Who, voted onto the Wired 100 list, Tech City 100, BIMA Hot 100 and has been voted one of the top ten women in technology by The Guardian. She is currently working with the NHS (National Health Service), UK, in the area of mental health for young people. Emma begins the show by giving a background about herself and her work and explains the concept of digital democracy to listeners.The panelists then dive into the topic of storytelling based learning and cite examples to explain their impressions of the materials that are used in the process. They explain how this kind of learning helps in making topics more engaging and interesting, and at the same time stress on the fact that there has to be a good balance between the fun and the actual content. They discuss, if as adults it holds any merit to resort to learning through stories and games compared to its usage in kids’ education, and how it helps in making dry technical material less boring and more relatable. In the end, they each talk about their own experiences where storytelling has played a major part in their role as programmers as well as content creators. Links Emma Mulqueeny Emma Mulqueeny - Wikipedia Emma’s Twitter Emma on Medium Young Rewired State Screeps CodeCombat Picks Luis Hernandez: Minecraft Sam Julien: Siri shortcuts for calendar, note-taking, writing Brooke Avery: Get Coding! Books Alice learning platform Emma Mulqueeny: Ian Livingstone’s books The Importance of Being Hoffnung Jesse Sanders: Tut - Notes from the Universe Momentum Dash Mike Dane: Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin’s course Joe Eames: Holey Moley TV Show

Devchat.tv Master Feed
Dev Ed 021: Learning Through Storytelling

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 49:32


Panel Joe Eames Jesse Sanders Luis Hernandez Mike Dane Sam Julien Brooke Avery Joined by special guest: Emma Mulqueeny Episode Summary In this episode of the Dev Ed podcast, the panel is joined by a distinguished guest, Emma Mulqueeny, digital transformation strategist and an eminent technologist, founder of the Rewired State and Young Rewired State organizations, the goal of which was to bring together young developers to contribute to government services in the UK, Commissioner for the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy and a Google Fellow. She has been awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) honour in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours list for her significant contribution to the fields of digital democracy and education. She has been included in the 166th annual edition of Who’s Who, voted onto the Wired 100 list, Tech City 100, BIMA Hot 100 and has been voted one of the top ten women in technology by The Guardian. She is currently working with the NHS (National Health Service), UK, in the area of mental health for young people. Emma begins the show by giving a background about herself and her work and explains the concept of digital democracy to listeners.The panelists then dive into the topic of storytelling based learning and cite examples to explain their impressions of the materials that are used in the process. They explain how this kind of learning helps in making topics more engaging and interesting, and at the same time stress on the fact that there has to be a good balance between the fun and the actual content. They discuss, if as adults it holds any merit to resort to learning through stories and games compared to its usage in kids’ education, and how it helps in making dry technical material less boring and more relatable. In the end, they each talk about their own experiences where storytelling has played a major part in their role as programmers as well as content creators. Links Emma Mulqueeny Emma Mulqueeny - Wikipedia Emma’s Twitter Emma on Medium Young Rewired State Screeps CodeCombat Picks Luis Hernandez: Minecraft Sam Julien: Siri shortcuts for calendar, note-taking, writing Brooke Avery: Get Coding! Books Alice learning platform Emma Mulqueeny: Ian Livingstone’s books The Importance of Being Hoffnung Jesse Sanders: Tut - Notes from the Universe Momentum Dash Mike Dane: Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin’s course Joe Eames: Holey Moley TV Show

Parent Driven Development
024: Teaching Kids to Code

Parent Driven Development

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2019 31:02


Parent Driven Development Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code 01:29 Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding 02:58 Teaching younger vs older audiences 03:52 Getting kids motivated in the coding space Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) 05:13 The benefits for kids who know coding literacy The Hour of Code (https://hourofcode.com/us) 08:16 Kevin's background in coding 08:45 Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code 13:31 Resources & Tools Glitch (https://glitch.com/) CodeCombat (https://codecombat.com/) 15:24 Is Minecraft (https://minecraft.net/en-us/) useful? 18:11 Next level resources Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/) Learn Python the Hard Way (https://learnpythonthehardway.org/) TwilioQuest (https://www.twilio.com/quest/welcome) 19:46 Helping passionate kids along the way (without scaring them away) Events, Hackathons, and Conferences THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/) 31:05 Genius / Fail Moments Josh: Putting a bandaid (glass screen protector) over his daughter's broken iPad screen. (#Genius) Chris: Letting his daughter make pasta! (#Genius) Kevin: Letting his daughter make pancakes! (#Genius) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community. Panel Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton) Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Special Guest: Kevin Whinnery.

MindHack Podcast
How to Hack your Motivation and Productivity - Nick Winter

MindHack Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 55:50


Nick Winter is the co-founder of the highly successful startup, CodeCombat, a free to use educational gaming company that teaches players the fundamentals of computer programming.He's also the author of the book, The Motivation Hacker and conducted a series of experiments over 3-months time to create good habits, learn new skills and push himself to achieve more. In this incredible episode we dig into goal-setting, creating new habits, dealing with burn-out and so much more! Resources From The EpisodeLinks SkritterSuperhumanCommit ActionBooksMotivation HackerPeopleDerek SiversPaul GrahamMatt MullenwegElon MuskShow Notes[03:24] How did you get the idea for the book?[05:34] What is your solution to those instances when you lose time for a particular task?[10:16] What’s the most important thing in setting goals?[42:59] What do you do when you’re close to a burnout?[43:45] What do you do in order to understand the emotions that your feeling right now or if what you’re doing is working or not?[45:09] A simple tip to be more productive and happier.[45:23] A suggestion so you can approach a new problem without the stress.[48:55] What do you do when you’re in a rut and need to get out?[51:55] What’s your challenge to your readers?Want more MindHacks? Go to https://www.mindhack.com/ for more amazing episodes.

ZADevChat Podcast
Episode 36 - Sisonke Rising with Mandla Magagula and Theo Bohnen

ZADevChat Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2016 50:34


In this weeks episode we share the inspirational story of two developers that have devoted themselves to teaching the disadvantaged youth of two prominent townships, Diepsloot and Olievenhoutbosch, to program. We chat to Theo Bohnen (https://twitter.com/tbohnenjnr) and Mandla Magagula (https://twitter.com/mandlamag) about their Sisonke Rising initiative. Sisonke Rising an impact and value driven community outreach programme that focuses on teaching young people life skills through the vehicle of software development. The aim of the initiative is ensure as many young people as possible are able to collaboratively code and build working software. Formerly called DrivenSpark, Sisonke came from the Zulu/Sotho word meaning "We are together", and together they focus on more than just code. They're a value-driven initiative. Values were chosen by the students themselves, and are reinforced every Saturday when they come together to learn. Their values include communication, feedback, courage, simplicity, care and fun. They have great support from their employer, Driven Alliance (http://drivenalliance.com/), and one of the founders (and former guest on the show) Kevin Trethewey (https://twitter.com/KevinTrethewey) who offers his own property and money to provide the students with books and snacks. They follow a spiral teaching model, where the more experienced students help the new entrants, reinforcing their skills. They rely on existing online teaching resources for their curriculum, using online typing courses, play online and offline games, and even getting them to submit their code to GitHub. Sisonke Rising is in desperate need of laptop donations for their students. If you have a working laptop that you no longer need, please contact Theo or Mandla to arrange for delivery. If you want to replicate Sisonke Rising in an underprivileged community near you, you can also get in touch with Theo & Mandla. Last, but not least, if you're willing to come help on a Saturday, get in touch with them and share your knowledge with the students. Find Sisonke Rising online: * Twitter - https://twitter.com/sisonkerising * Website - http://www.sisonkerising.com/ Here are some of the resources mentioned during the show: * CodeCombat - https://codecombat.com/ * Code Academy - https://www.codecademy.com/ * typeracer - the global typing competition - http://play.typeracer.com/ * Run-length encoding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding * GitHub - https://github.com And finally our picks Kenneth: * Bounce - http://www.bounceinc.co.za/ * CityROCK - http://www.cityrock.co.za/ Len: * Suture - Supervision Trees for Go - http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2930 Theo: * Extreme Programming Explained - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67833.Extreme_Programming_Explained * Crucial Conversations - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations * A Way with Words - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2539820.A_Way_with_Words Mandla: * elm - the best of functional programming in your browser http://elm-lang.org/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777

Hackers – Software Engineering Daily
CodeCombat with Nick Winter

Hackers – Software Engineering Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2015 57:39


“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.” Continue reading… The post CodeCombat with Nick Winter appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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Devchat.tv Master Feed
122 iPS The 2015 Apple Event

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2015 49:39


01:37 - Apple Watch Hermès Strap Collection Pebble Time watchOS 2 08:55 - iPhone 6s + 6s Plus 3D Touch Maintaining Usability Across Multiple Systems Live Photos Multitasking Storage 19:06 - iPad Pro Apple Pencil Use Cases 29:20 - Apple TV AirPlay Cross-Device Interaction ?? HomeKit Integration tvOS Picks Oktoberfest Beer (Jaim) CodeCombat (Alondo) Airplay Tutorial: An Apple TV Multiplayer Quiz Game (Alondo) Beginning tvOS Development with TVML Tutorial (Alondo) Pebble.js (Chuck) Basecamp (Chuck)

The iPhreaks Show
122 iPS The 2015 Apple Event

The iPhreaks Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2015 49:39


01:37 - Apple Watch Hermès Strap Collection Pebble Time watchOS 2 08:55 - iPhone 6s + 6s Plus 3D Touch Maintaining Usability Across Multiple Systems Live Photos Multitasking Storage 19:06 - iPad Pro Apple Pencil Use Cases 29:20 - Apple TV AirPlay Cross-Device Interaction ?? HomeKit Integration tvOS Picks Oktoberfest Beer (Jaim) CodeCombat (Alondo) Airplay Tutorial: An Apple TV Multiplayer Quiz Game (Alondo) Beginning tvOS Development with TVML Tutorial (Alondo) Pebble.js (Chuck) Basecamp (Chuck)

JavaScript Jabber
178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski

JavaScript Jabber

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2015 56:09


03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker 04:29 - Frontend Masters @FrontendMasters 07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon Twitch.tv 09:17 - Scalability 11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle 14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops 16:09 - Online vs In-Person Prerequisites 18:11 - Booking Workshops 19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d) 20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General egghead.io CodeCombat NodeSchool 21:40 - The Business Model Licensing 24:12 - Hot Sellers Kyle Simpson: Advanced JavaScript 25:28 - Technical Setup Livestream Firebase 27:27 - Selecting Topics 29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production 30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees frontendmasters.com/workshops 31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters 32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters 34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date 36:14 - eLearning Experiments Untrusted exercism.io NodeSchool A Better Way to Learn JavaScript My Tech High 39:30 - Giveaways marc@frontendmasters.com 40:07 - Getting Started with Programming 43:03 - Marketing 45:20 - Teacher Compensation Picks Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison) thought-haver (Jamison) [Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee) [Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee) LÄRABAR (Aimee) Taking time off (Chuck) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe) BB-8 by Sphero (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc) CodeCombat (Marc) Untrusted (Marc)

Devchat.tv Master Feed
178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2015 56:09


03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker 04:29 - Frontend Masters @FrontendMasters 07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon Twitch.tv 09:17 - Scalability 11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle 14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops 16:09 - Online vs In-Person Prerequisites 18:11 - Booking Workshops 19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d) 20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General egghead.io CodeCombat NodeSchool 21:40 - The Business Model Licensing 24:12 - Hot Sellers Kyle Simpson: Advanced JavaScript 25:28 - Technical Setup Livestream Firebase 27:27 - Selecting Topics 29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production 30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees frontendmasters.com/workshops 31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters 32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters 34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date 36:14 - eLearning Experiments Untrusted exercism.io NodeSchool A Better Way to Learn JavaScript My Tech High 39:30 - Giveaways marc@frontendmasters.com 40:07 - Getting Started with Programming 43:03 - Marketing 45:20 - Teacher Compensation Picks Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison) thought-haver (Jamison) [Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee) [Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee) LÄRABAR (Aimee) Taking time off (Chuck) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe) BB-8 by Sphero (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc) CodeCombat (Marc) Untrusted (Marc)

All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tv
178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski

All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tv

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2015 56:09


03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker 04:29 - Frontend Masters @FrontendMasters 07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon Twitch.tv 09:17 - Scalability 11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle 14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops 16:09 - Online vs In-Person Prerequisites 18:11 - Booking Workshops 19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d) 20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General egghead.io CodeCombat NodeSchool 21:40 - The Business Model Licensing 24:12 - Hot Sellers Kyle Simpson: Advanced JavaScript 25:28 - Technical Setup Livestream Firebase 27:27 - Selecting Topics 29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production 30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees frontendmasters.com/workshops 31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters 32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters 34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date 36:14 - eLearning Experiments Untrusted exercism.io NodeSchool A Better Way to Learn JavaScript My Tech High 39:30 - Giveaways marc@frontendmasters.com 40:07 - Getting Started with Programming 43:03 - Marketing 45:20 - Teacher Compensation Picks Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison) thought-haver (Jamison) [Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee) [Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee) LÄRABAR (Aimee) Taking time off (Chuck) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe) BB-8 by Sphero (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc) CodeCombat (Marc) Untrusted (Marc)

Biertaucher Podcast
Biertaucher Folge 212

Biertaucher Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2015 43:18


Gregor PRIDUN und Horst JENS plaudern über freie Software und andere Nerd-Themen. Shownotes auf http://goo.gl/CKE812 oder http://biertaucher.at

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techzing tech podcast
274: TZ Discussion – All Things HFT

techzing tech podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2014


Justin and Jason discuss Justin's rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error messages to Slack and HipChat, scaling and managing servers at Digedu, Jason's interview on Get Up and Code, why iXL didn't work for the math team and how to setup a backup configuration using MySQL and EC2.

Spare Room Radio - Kansas City Startups & Entrepreneurs
Episode 4: Jennifer & Chris Nickols of Whobaloo talk Web Design, Family, Startups

Spare Room Radio - Kansas City Startups & Entrepreneurs

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2014


Chris and Jennifer recently moved back to Kansas City from LA to grow their web based graphics design platform Whobaloo.  Bootstrapping it out of their web design and development company Upside Down Design, they've created a great product and managed to keep their sanity in the process.   (function() { $('#audio287008 audio').mediaelementplayer({ features: ['playpause', 'current', 'progress', 'duration', 'volume', 'popup', 'download'] }); }).call(this); Links:WhobalooUpside Down DesignBetaBloxCodeCombatKauffman 2013 SOE