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Origin Code Academy Rolls Out Free Programming Intro Course Online

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San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code. According to the school, the new course teaches some of the fundamentals of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Course 100
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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth.

Course 280