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Educational Insights Launches Coding Robot

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Gardena-based toy maker Educational Insights said this morning that it has launched a new product, a "coding robot" which is designed to help kids learn how to write their own software. JavaScript, Python and C++), learning how to code line-by-line. , JavaScript, Python and C++), learning how to code line-by-line.

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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

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General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board.

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Coding School Operator Origin Code Academy Launches In San Diego

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According to Origin, it provides 12-week long programs which teach software development skills to students, including skills in.NET, Javascript, CSS and HTML.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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I have some educated guesses. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So now the question is how to educate kids about it. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.