Tag «coding»

Celebrating Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code!

As a software industry career-changer and former coding nerd myself, I look forward to Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code every year! I started programming when I was around nine or ten years old. When I wrote my first lines of code in Basic on a green-screen Apple computer, and made my …

Code.org Student of the Week!

So very proud to announce that one of my students was honored as the Code.org Student of the Week! I nominated Paulina as the student of the week because she really embraced coding when introduced to the Hour of Code in my Entrepreneurship class. She jumped on board, completed the optional 20-hour computer science introduction …

STEM Career of the Week – Programmer!

Each week I will feature a STEM career in my classroom and on my blog. Hopefully, this will inspire students to think about different subjects and careers that may not have been on their horizon previously. Programmer Grace Hopper, invented the compiler Create, modify, and test the code, forms, and script that allow computer applications …