Australia's primary schools to teach coding
Australia is preparing for the jobs of the future by having children learn coding and programming at a very young age.
According to a report by Mashable, 21st century computer coding will be taught in primary schools from Year 5, and programming will be taught from Year 7. The curriculum was approved by Education Minister Christopher Pyne in one of his last acts before being sworn in as Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science.
The true cost of coding bootcamps
The coding bootcamp industry is growing rapidly. According to Course Report’s Bootcamp Study, the industry is approaching a market size of $200 million, which is 138 percent growth over the prior year.
At the same time, critics warn about similarities to for-profit colleges, especially regarding "poor performance, exorbitant pricing, and exploitation of vulnerable, low-income students". Though I found my Computer Engineering undergraduate education to be helpful and fundamentally sound, I do not think it adequately prepared me for my first job. A case in point is that I learned as much working at a startup as I did in four years of university education. Based on this experience, it’s really important to me that students of all coding bootcamps get the technical skills and job training they need to achieve their goals.
NYSE outage could have been avoided with code quality software
The last three years have provided a catalog of IT horror stories such as RBS which somehow lost over 600,000 payments, the NASDAQ glitch which cost $62 million in fines alone, and now the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), where trading was halted last week for almost four excruciating hours.
The public is wondering how these software glitches still happen despite the millions spent to upgrade corporate IT systems. These wholesale technical upgrades have not prevented billions being lost in the global economy from what are generically described "technical faults". So what’s the real problem?
Student registrations open for Google Code-In 2014
Google Code-In has been running for a few years now and serves as a platform for promoting the importance of programming and computer science to students. The current batch of computing student represents the next breed of app coders, website designers and computer experts. Google is keen to encourage teenagers to get involved and today is the day that registrations open for Google Code-In 2014.
One of the aims of the event is to promote the open source community, and encourage 13-17 year olds to get involved in whatever way they can. Google Code-In is a contest but it has been set up in such a way that it simulates working on a real-world open source project.
