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Google is Helping Latino Students Learn to Code
After reading Adriana Jara 's Google article about ‚ÄãHelping Latino Students Learn to Code‚Äã, I was ecstatic and inspired to find new ways to help the community. Google granted $5 million to UnidosUS, the YWCA, and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. These $5 million will provide Latino students resources and an opportunity to learn to code in a language that is familial - Spanish. Learning in Spanish As a daughter of [...]
Alan Wilson – Student Spotlight & Review
"Just like so many other things in life, it will work for you if you work for it. Woz U is a commitment; A way of life; a re-branding of yourself. It 's not a get-rich-quick scheme. There will be sleepless nights, headaches, pulled hair, and quite a few tears. But when you 're on the other side of it, looking back- it will all be worth it." - Alan [...]
Do I Need A JavaScript Framework?
There are good reasons to avoid JavaScript framework. They can often be very constricting to your creativity. You must write code within the confines of what a framework determines. If you try to go outside of those confines, you can quickly end up with a non-working application. To further complicate things, frameworks can be limited to only what the designers intended. Future innovation of the framework is not a certainty [...]
3 Foundations of Cyber Security: CIA Triad Explained
The CIA Triad Almost every organization, large or small, has at least some information which needs to remain private. This might simply be customer, employee, and vendor information or more elaborate forms of intelligence property such as source code or sales/marketing plans. Regardless of what form of information we are protecting, Cyber Security professionals are guided by three principles, or what I like to call the three promises we make [...]
Gear Up For The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ray Schey: "The demand for technical skills and skilled labor is growing very quickly, too. How can the Valley in particular ensure the workforce is prepared to meet those needs?" Chris Coleman: "There 's been more educational options for people to get competent in some of these skills. It takes an awareness of trends happening in technology and innovation. Businesses also need to be aware of risks in over-adopting some [...]
Stats Trained? Re-orient Yourself Towards Machine Learning and Data Science
With regression, we ask why something happens. We ask how something happens. We get data about the individual predictors, and we see how much they contribute to the overall model. But, most machine learning algorithms just spit out a few relevant numbers revolving around accuracy. That 's it! Nothing more. To someone used to exploring every nook and cranny of their data with regression, this seems sparse. Austere. Confusing, even. [...]