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NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s Why You Should Learn to Code
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#12I don't understand why people in the Sports world tend to not like Chris Bosh. Not only does he have a great all-around game but he got passions beyond basketball and is a family man. Keep doing your damn thing Chris Bosh. I'm a fan.
People who want to dislike the Heat's formation can take a quick look at his stats and see that they dropped substantially since Toronto, ignoring that he went from being by far the best player, to the third best player behind two of the best in the world. His rebounding numbers dropped, but he no longer plays down low as much, because LeBron and Wade need space there. They also ignore that he's become nearly as good as Dirk Nowitzki at long 2's, which is generally an inefficient shot (unless you hit it at the rate the two of them do), which spaces the court very effectively, especially given Miami's 3 point shooters. He redesigned his game to fit into a really unique system that has ended with them in the Finals every single year.
He then tops all of this off with really insightful thoughts for a high level athlete (not saying athletes aren't capable of this, but they unsurprisingly tend to dedicate the vast majority of their mental bandwidth towards their sport), and a fantastic sense of humor. In Toronto he ran a YouTube campaign to get support for n All Star bid (or maybe dunk contest invite?), and he's become a meme because he loves photo bombing interviews. This isn't normal HN material, but since Chris Bosh came up, please, look at this GIF at explain how you can't like him: http://slacktory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Chris-Bosh-M...
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#13Interesting to hear he was even picked on. I've liked Bosh because of his photo bombs. Now a better reason to like him.
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#14I don't understand why people in the Sports world tend to not like Chris Bosh. Not only does he have a great all-around game but he got passions beyond basketball and is a family man. Keep doing your damn thing Chris Bosh. I'm a fan.
Bosh is awesome. I know that some Raptors fans dislike him for leaving Raptors to Heats. Before Bosh, it was Vince Carter who got some haters for leaving to Nets. Raptors fans get pretty attached to players because really good players come so rare to them.
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#15Nice.. except most professional sports players should spent as little time in front of the computer as possible. Carpal tunnel syndrome is something you don't want someone you're paying $100 million to have when he's out in the court, or in the mound.
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#16Great article, had no idea about that side of him. I'm sure he's no expert hacker, but it doesn't matter - hopefully his message gets out to the millions of kids who think a passion for coding, computers, and tech in general is worth teasing someone over, or inspires those who are being teased to stop caring about others and do the damn thing.
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#18"If someone in school would have explained to me that coding could reach millions directly or indirectly and make their lives better, it would’ve sparked my interest much sooner." - completely agree, programming was not introduced to me correctly until after college. Even if public schools don't have the resources to hire a teacher who is, by training, a programmer, there is no reason why students can't be exposed to things like Codecademy, Coursera, and Udacity. Online courses with syllabi could even be offered to students (a teacher could simply verify that the work was being completed and that the code works) as replacements for the joke of a "computers" requirement that I had to complete, where the final was just making a PowerPoint, and half the class just played Oregon Trail during. I don't think "everyone should code!" should be the goal, it should be that "everyone should be truly exposed to coding while in school."
Now that I am talking about it, there are so many basic things that people should be introduced to in public school, some of which used to be mandatory (I believe). Things like basic accounting/personal finance, some intro level cooking course (make sure people can boil water and follow a simple recipe), some kind of shop like class, etc. California has a "visual arts" requirement that is much less useful to most students over the course of their life than most of the courses I just named. Visual arts are great, but time is limited, and prioritization should go to preparation for life in the real world.
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#19Great article. We need more like him in the tech community(and in general).
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#20"If someone in school would have explained to me that coding could reach millions directly or indirectly and make their lives better, it would’ve sparked my interest much sooner." - completely agree, programming was not introduced to me correctly until after college. Even if public schools don't have the resources to hire a teacher who is, by training, a programmer, there is no reason why students can't be exposed to…
Going back to the accounting/personal finance piece, I did a year of law school, and it was absolutely stunning how many of my classmates had no idea what compound interest was (more insane given that most of them were debt funding their education with high interest, non-dischargeable loans that now compound immediately upon taking them out), or that opportunity cost was something they should have considered when evaluating the cost of school.