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Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer, Growth Engineer I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making …

Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making software for K-12…

Thanks Jon! Will definitely do

sent you an email

Thanks for the well thought out reply! The course layout you have written out is quite thorough. The only thing is that for someone who does not have any programming background, th…

Thanks for the offer! I will ask the teachers and get back to you

Yes definitely want to give him a primer of a git or some sort of VCS. Hopefully after we get through some basic python

Hey Mike (sorry if that is incorrect). Can you email me when you get a chance? I would really like to see your slides in detail if possible. Also, your doing more at 17 then I was,…

I am using codehs, codeacademy Treehouse is very similar to other ones, Odin Project seems to be for older learners. Bentobox is fantastic! Thanks for the rec!

Great pick! I Will definitely loo into it. Thanks for the rec!

Thanks for the input, appreciate it! I am mostly focusing on tools that give him explicit visual feedback, so that is why I am focusing on html and styling. Write some code and the…

Hey Everyone, I am teaching CS to a student from an interventionist high school in one of the poorest urban neighborhoods, who has foster parents which nag him at home and who is i…

This is great news! I actually worked with Kalev on this in 2007-2009 in collecting the event database at University of Illinois, and it was one of the most interesting experiences…

Exactly teachers have a lot of leeway in how they want to teach something. The most common reasons for failure are that the teacher does not understand exactly what she is teaching…

I work with over 30 schools in Bay Area, Chicago and New York as well, and have been working with teachers, districts etc on common core for the past two years. The entire point of…

The common core standards which talk about division are described here http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/7/NS At no point do the standards direct you how to teach long divi…

A bit reductionist in its claims I would say

Twitter 2007: Who wants to post status messages which are limited to 140 characters Twitter 2010: Who wants to invest in a company which limits status messages to 140 characters Tw…

"The Score takes Care of Itself" - Bill Walsh Jack Dorsey talked about it in Startup School and I highly recommend it as well.

I worked on this project back in my graduate days at University of Illinois and it is amazing how much progress they have made

I just came across this brand and this some of the most innovative design/engineering work on garments ever done