First, ask yourself why you want to learn to code Take a few minutes (or longer) to think about the reasons—therealreasons—why you want to learn a programming language, and be honest with yourself. Are you tr
When you see a beautifully rendered floating island with a cute creature jumping around, that becomes your anchor. You immediately limit yourself to what’s being presented to you and you consume instead of coming up with new ways of thinking, of ima...
Over the last few years,Jaimee Newberryhas been doing a lot of great conference talks on motivating yourself to accomplish your dreams. She’s an awesome person who started a company where you can draw anything you want to and have it printed on a piece of clothing. She gave an awesome ...
Niños de Guatemalais a nonprofit working to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala by providing quality education and healthcare to children. NDG continually strives to ensure not just the academic but also the physical and emotional wellbeing of our students. All of the children in our prog...
Because if you fail to consider just one alternate road, you might find yourself in a situation like this... Let's step back a second and take a look at the tools that storytelling has given us so far to make our information more compelling. It turns out that these tools give us an...
and check others' solutions. But don't just copy it. After you've read the solution, simply look away, and see what you can recall from you've just read. Try to implement your own solution. Usually the first time you truly understand something is when you can actually do it yourself....
It’s hard to make yourself work on other things or step away from the computer. It’s like being in school. You feel obligated to sit through the boring grammar lecture because you’re supposed to be there. Your mind wanders and you fight with people on Twitter because you don’t feel...
Or, as Ricky Gervais tweeted (and then deleted): “Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer.” It’s not that it’s celebrities’ fault for being hacked; it’s just that they should arm ...