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Y2K Bug Strikes Again with Draft Snafu Nearly fifteen years after the year 2000, the Y2K bug has surfaced its ugly face once again. This iteration of Y2K shenanigans involves zombies—sort of. At the end of last month, more than 14,000 notices were sent to Pennsylvania men born in the late 1800s urging them to register for the draft. |
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Coding for Children Should Add, Not Subtract, Knowledge There has been a strong push to make teaching students how to program part of the academic requirements in public schools, with a legislative push to have coding replace foreign language requirements and cursive. However, maybe we should focus on adding knowledge—not taking it away. |
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The New Foreign Language: Computer Programming? Spanish or JavaScript? This is a question public school students in the US could be asking themselves as they choose their future courses. In several states, government officials are pushing to have programming languages count for a student's foreign language requirements. |
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Do Testers Need Programming Skills? To more technically understand the product under development and to automate tests, including developing test frameworks and customizing tools to meet the team’s testing needs, programming skills definitely come in handy for a tester. Should testers absolutely need to know how to program? |
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President Asks Every American to Learn to Code Hoping to spark students’ interest in learning more about in-demand computer science and programming skills, nonprofit organization Code.org launched the Hour of Code to get people to learn the basics of computer coding through interactive lessons. Among its celebrity advocates is President Obama. |
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Stumbling Blocks to Becoming a Better Programmer We continue our journey into the pitfalls which productivity programmers are susceptible to. In part two of this three-part series we delve into some more of the problematic habits and situations programmers can face when it comes to productivity |
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Pitfalls Programmers Should Avoid Programmers can find themselves entrenched in productivity pitfalls without even knowing it. In this first installment of a three-part series, we outline the pitfalls of programming productivity and give some solutions for avoiding or fixing them. |
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Developers Get a Civics Lesson with Open Source Government Projects If you’re a civic-minded programmer who would like your government to be more open and more efficient, you now have the option to help make it happen. A recently launched portal called GitHub and Government lets users collaborate on projects to solve problems and make information more available. |
