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Google to pay for women, minorities in tech to learn more code - CNET

A new initiative announced at Google I/O will pay for three months of continuing education for women and minorities in tech.

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May 27th, 2014
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Most programming doesn’t require a special brain, but it’s more frustrating and messier than anyone lets on. There are thousands of enthusiastic blog posts, classes and apps that aim to entice you with the promise of a slick, unequivocal procedure for learning to code. They rarely mention the tedium of getting your environment set up (which, trust me, even the nicest of your programmer friends don’t want to help you with, because that stuff is mad frustrating and nobody remembers how they did it).

They don’t tell you that a lot of programming skill is about developing a knack for asking the right questions on Google and knowing which code is best to copy-paste. And they don’t let you in on a big secret: that there is no mastery, there is no final level. The anxiety of feeling lost and stupid is not something you learn to conquer, but something you learn to live with.
Kate Ray, Technical Cofounder, Scroll Kit. TechCrunch, Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy. (via futurejournalismproject)
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April 26th, 2013
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Yes, there are such things as best practices in software development, and they have legitimate value, but as a beginner you are not obligated to internalize all of them at once. Just stop worrying about it! Make something you’re proud of, then improve it little by little. Learn one thing at a time and make incremental progress.
Bad code is the first step towards good code — Let’s Make Things (via scriptsht)

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March 21st, 2013
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The benefit of homemade tech isn’t just having systems for your particular need, but that it gives developers stronger ties to the company.

Trei Brundrett, vice president of product and technology for Vox Media, discusses the company’s recent hackathon, which led to new ideas and tools for SB Nation, the Verge and Polygon. 

Nieman Lab writes: 

It was a self-made hackathon: The product team banded together and suggested a long weekend devoted to nothing but building. What resulted was more than a dozen projects, ranging from back-end technology like JavaScript testing tools and a system to automate advertising mockups, to features that will help in reporting and community engagement, to apps that could expand the company’s reach with new products on tablets and smartphones.

Read more: Homemade code: Vox Media invests in its own tech through a weekend hackathon » Nieman Journalism Lab

(Source: niemanlab.org)

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March 4th, 2013
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Notes from #NICAR13

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Journalists and technologists gathered in Louisville, KY this weekend to explore computer-assisted reporting at NICAR 2013. Throughout the conference, tools and techniques that can improve data-assisted reporting were highlighted. 

Chys Wu pulled together a massive list of resources from the conference, including presentations, tutorials, lightning talks, tools and software to check out. 

Here’s a collaborative set of notes from sessions at the conference. 

ONA Board member Greg Linch collected tweets from the conference. 

The Tow Center has a list of resources on data journalism. 

Were you at #NICAR13? What were sessions or topics most inspired you? 

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December 7th, 2012
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Social Shares: Digital Resources for journalists and a look at how newspapers can improve

The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.

To share an issue or join the conversation, submit your own post, reblog on your own Tumblr or comment on a post.

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September 28th, 2012
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Zoom futurejournalismproject: “ Journalists, Eliminate Your Fear of Code Developed by the #ONA12 Student Newsroom, this project is meant to introduced journalists to code, visually and interactively. Now: Try it out here. It’s quite wonderful. Image:...

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Journalists, Eliminate Your Fear of Code

Developed by the #ONA12 Student Newsroom, this project is meant to introduced journalists to code, visually and interactively.

Now: Try it out here. It’s quite wonderful.

Image: Screenshot of the interactive. Click-through to play with it.

We’re so proud of the Student Newsroom for all of their coverage! This was especially impressive.

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August 31st, 2012
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daniel sinker: OpenNews: Announcing Code Sprint Grants

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image2012 has been a pretty incredible year for the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. We recieved 165 applications for our 2013 Fellowships (we were expecting around 80) and are now actively interviewing semifinalists. By the end of the year, we will have sponsored at least 20 hack days around…

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July 30th, 2012
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Non-Techie Cofounder Learns Code, Builds New Site Feature in 6 Days

Inspiring!

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June 29th, 2012
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Girls Who Code: summer camp for tech-inclined teen girls

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I’ll admit it - I went to computer camp in middle school: twice. However, there were about 6 girls and hundreds of boys. Almost all the instructors were men and they once almost forgot to bring us on the weekend field trip. Any technical inclination I had went into almost 10 years of hibernation. 

I wish this kind of program existed when I had been this age and trying to figure out how to use my talents and interest in the greater world.

Girls who Code is an awesome initiative. Check it out!

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