Got an extra 15 minutes? Check out this short doc on Grace Hopper
FiveThirtyEight posted this great short film, “Queen of Code” about Grace Hopper’s life produced by ESPN. If you are unfamiliar with Hopper, you may know her as the heralded mathematician and federal...
View Article#MarchIsForMakers, Getting Started with Wearables
If you haven’t heard #MarchIsForMakers. As an initiative to get more tech savvy people interested in hardware, several tech organizations are promoting projects for tinkerers. For coders, writing...
View ArticleGetting Started With Wearables Part II: Finding the Right Microcontroller
In celebration of #MarchIsForMakers, an initiative to get more coders interested in building hardware, I started this 4-part introduction to wearable technology. Click here to see Part I of the series...
View ArticleGetting Started with Wearables Part III: Tools and Sensors
In celebration of #MarchIsForMakers, an initiative to get more coders interested in building hardware, I started this 4-part introduction to wearable technology. Click here to see Part I of the series...
View ArticleGetting Started with Wearables Part IV: 4 Kits and Projects for New Makers
In celebration of #MarchIsForMakers, an initiative to get more coders interested in building hardware, I started this 4-part introduction to wearable technology. Click here to see Part I of the series...
View ArticleWant to Learn Bootstrap? Join me on CodeBuddies Tonight
I’ve been hanging out with the Code Buddies community this year as part of my goal to network with other designers and developers over knowledge share. It’s a great pair programming resource for newbs...
View ArticleJoin Me for Live Show and Tell on Bootstrap Tonight
For those who first joined me 3 weeks ago in taking the Microsoft course on Twitter Bootstrap, you will know that tonight is the final day of the course. I want to wish best of luck to everyone who is...
View ArticleUpcoming Events: 3D Printing Workshop and the Chicago’s NEXT Hackathon
Chicago has always been like a second home to me. It’s one of the 3 cities that a frequently visit for business, cons, and tech meetups (St. Louis and Nashville being the others). Having once been a...
View ArticleReview of ChicagosNEXT Hackathon Storified
Had a great time at the ChicagosNEXT Hackathon this past weekend and decided to do something new when it came to reviewing the event. Thankfully, Roy Beasley tracked the hashtag we used for the event...
View ArticleGuest Post: Andrea’s Raspberry Pi Adventures
Next to my hackathon series, the most read series on Our Code was #MarchIsForMakers, where I offered an introduction to microcontrollers and wearable projects for newbies. Due to the success of that...
View ArticleMy New Habits for 2015: A [not so] Quick Update
Writer’s Note: I wrote this at the beginning of 2015 in January. It is now October and much has changed. I provided a few updates below. ***************************************** Hello all, Hope...
View ArticleInsight on Developer Testing
Editor’s note: Our Code will be featuring more guests posts and interviews with web designers, developers, and engineers with experience in order to provide more insight on what it’s like to work in...
View Article#MotivationMonday Series: From Back to Front-end…Again
This guest post is part of Our Code’s new #MotivationMonday series. In this series, featured writers will be documenting their coding journeys as they prepare to become established and seek jobs in...
View ArticlePart II of Andrea’s Raspberry Pi Adventures!
Fellow Our Code reader Andrea shares the latest update on video tracking project built with RaspPi in today’s Part II post. In the first part of series, Andrea detailed her planning process, sharing...
View ArticleI Registered for Hack.Summit() 2016 and 5 Reasons Why You Should Too
The second annual Hack.Summit() 2016 conference coming this February is shaping up to fulfill its goal yet again of being the largest programming conference in history. Over 64,000 people participated...
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