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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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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. |
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Working Your Way Out of Large Technical Debt in a Small Project When you transition to agile with a small project and you have a reasonably sized codebase, chances are quite good that you’ve been working on the product for a while. You have legacy code—and that code comes with technical debt. Johanna Rothman has ideas about how to work yourself out of it. |
