Is 2012 The Year You Learn How To Code?
As we kick off 2012 many people are making their new years resolutions to lose weight, get a new job, and more but for many entrepreneurs and geeks a like there is one resolution that is at the top of the list. That resolution is learning how to code. There are many free sites that teach online programming with [...]
Read MoreCodeAcademy Makes Learning to Code Fun and Social
For web journalists, learning to code — even if it’s just picking up the basics of HTML or CSS — can be just as important as memorizing the AP Stylebook. In the past, ambitious wannabe coders had to stick with how-to guides and computer science classes and frantic e-mails to their programmer friends, but a [...]
Read MoreTastemaker Cleavon Blair: The Programmer Entrepreneur
One of the most memorable scenes in the hit movie The Social Network showed five people furiously programming on laptops in the middle of a dark and crowded room. They are taking shots of alcohol at regular intervals while trying to hack into a server as the crowd cheers them on. Two of the programmers [...]
Read MoreOmar Wasow: How a $10 Computer Changed My Life
BlackPlanet co-founder Omar Wasow recently spoke at TEDxBoston. The topic of conversation? How his parents decision to get him a Commodore VIC-20, instead of an Atari changed his life and inspired him to become a programmer. For those of you that might need a quick history lesson, the VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer and one [...]
Read MoreRashid Muhammad
In this week’s Peeps of the Web we talk with Rashid Muhammad, Systems Analyst for the Research Systems support group at Georgia State University. Rashid is an ASP/ASP.net enthusiast with a great insight on programming. We talk to Rashid about his start in web programming, choice of ASP instead of PHP. Enjoy! (8:39:18 PM) Black [...]
Read MoreTiffani Bell
In this week’s Peeps of the Web, we interview Tiffani Bell, recent college graduate and a very spirited Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. Tiffani is a staunch supporter of Ruby on Rails as a web development language, and we used this interview to discuss how she got started with the Ruby language, the tools she uses to code in Ruby, and the pros and cons surrounding the language. Enjoy!
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