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Here’s What Alan Kay Did to Change the Way You Use Computers
Alan Kay began life as a precocious learner. Raised in the household of a father who designed limb prostheses and a mother who played music, the ambiance of art, science, and learning later infused itself into his lifetime body of work. He avidly read books before entering elementary school, and went on to study mathematics […]
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Fusion Features Two Kode with Karlie Scholars
Fusion ran a spotlight on two Los Angeles Kode with Karlie winners, Leilani Jones and Amanda Southworth. Between DJ'ing and playing ukelele, the girls' musical flair is only the beginning when it comes to their talents. Click here to read about their Flatiron experience, and see what they're inspired to do next. Image via Fusion.
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This Isn’t Carl Sagan’s “Flatland”: Achieving Flat Design on iOS
This post originally appeared on Cong Sun's blog. Read more at Cong's iOS Study Note. WHAT IS FLAT DESIGN? Think of flat design as the opposite of 3D. Emphasizing “flatness” and two-dimensionality, flat design focuses on “simplifying an interface by removing extra elements such as shadows, bevels, textures, and gradients that create a 3D look” […]
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Hannah Nordgren [Q&A]
Unconventional is a good descriptor for Hannah Nordgren's path to becoming a developer. Hannah's first job as a teenager was at a taco stand, then she followed her love of fashion to New York and ended up becoming a professional hairdresser and freelance technical designer. Roughly a year after graduating Flatiron's first Brooklyn full stack development […]
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The Gale-Shapley Algorithm and How Programming Insersects With Social Issues
This post originally appeared on Jake Faris’s blog. You can read more here. In college, I took a Computer Science course on Algorithms, where we explored ways that programmers and computer scientists approach complex problem solving. We looked at greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, recursion, network flow algorithms, and many more. One of the first algorithms we […]
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Why Writers Make Great Programmers: Alex Wilkinson [Q&A]
Alex Wilkinson had a passion for computers starting at a young age, but never considered it to be more than a hobby. He focused on writing for years, but after a stint at the New York Times Research and Development department, he realized a new potential career calling. About a year after graduating from Flatiron School's […]
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Why High Schoolers Should Learn Entrepreneurship
When it comes to planning for 21st century careers, there’s nothing quite like the buzzword “startup” to begin a conversation. And for good reason — as programming becomes an essential skill, it’s also set the stage for young adults to develop innovative business strategies. That’s why The Flatiron School is now offering Startup Entrepreneurship for […]