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·Oct 2, 2019

How to Read a Technical Paper

Level up by diving into the weeds — If you taught yourself coding or attended a bootcamp, you may never have encountered a technical paper as you were learning. In the back of your mind, you know that there is a Computer Science discipline that people study in universities. …

Academia

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How to Read a Technical Paper
How to Read a Technical Paper
Academia

14 min read


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Business Daily: Startups, Business Development, Management

·Jun 17, 2015

Why Long-term Internships Will Become A Cornerstone Of Education

More cost effective than college, and probably better learning to boot. You've been to college, or you're there now, or planning to go. It’s what’s expected in order to secure your social standing and your place in the creative class. …

Internships

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Why Long-term Internships Will Become A Cornerstone Of Education
Why Long-term Internships Will Become A Cornerstone Of Education
Internships

10 min read


May 5, 2015

Start Hacking With APIs

You want to learn how to use APIs to make awesome things. That’s good, because that’s what we're doing in this tutorial. This tutorial was originally part of Bitcamp 2015's Scout Trail. I ❤ bitcamp. Intro API stands for Application Programming Interface. Any time you are interacting with someone else’s code…

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Start Hacking With APIs
Start Hacking With APIs

10 min read


May 5, 2015

Build your first backend

Don’t know anything? That’s AWESOME. This is a soft intro to backend development for those who want to do cool things fast. This tutorial was originally part of Bitcamp 2015's Scout Trail. I ❤ bitcamp. Intro We’ll get you up and hacking in no time. This tutorial has: A little setup …

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Build your first backend
Build your first backend

8 min read


Apr 27, 2015

Why umd.io?

I’ve been working for the past couple months on umd.io. You can check out the site, and if you are interested in the technical details, we’re open source, so check us out on github. This post will explore the vision and motivation behind the project — why this is important…

Umd

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Why umd.io?
Why umd.io?
Umd

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Nov 21, 2014

Let’s Make Schools Happy

College is a depressing place. It shouldn’t be. — Image via Cybersmile Foundation College is super depressing. It’s hard — lonely, boring, stressful. I’m not just being descriptive — the National College Health Assessment found in 2011 that 30 percent of college students reported feeling “so depressed that it was difficult to function” at some point in the past…

College

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Happy School
Happy School
College

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Sep 28, 2014

How to Publish A Website To The Internet

You've coded a site. Now, put it on the internet for people to see. EDIT (1/2017): Google has discontinued hosting through Drive. There are lots of other great options for hosting your website — checkout github pages, or do some searching on your own. YO. This was written to follow the…

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How to publish your website to the internet
How to publish your website to the internet

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Sep 12, 2014

Make A Resume Website From Scratch

You've seen those fancy resume websites. Now make your own. Hey. Your artistic and web-savvy friends make them. Your instructors might have plain-white ones. If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out some example sites. This how-to walks you through building your own resume site and getting…

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Make A Resume Website From Scratch
Make A Resume Website From Scratch

9 min read

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