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Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader sends the story of another prison where inmates are learning the basics of programming, despite having no access to the vast educational resources on the internet. Instructors from Columbia University have held a lengthy class at New York's Rikers Island prison to teach the basics of Python. Similar projects have been attempted in California and Oklahoma.
The goal wasn’t to turn the students into professional-grade programmers in just a few classes, [Instructor Dennis] Tenen emphasizes, but to introduce them to the basics of programming and reasoning about algorithms and code. "It’s really to give people a taste, to get people excited about coding, in hopes that when they come out, they continue," says Tenen. ...Having an explicit goal—building the Twitter bot—helped the class focus its limited time quickly on learning to do concrete tasks, instead of getting bogged down in abstract discussions of syntax and algorithms.
Bah, when I learned programming there weren't "vast educational resources on the internet".
It's been done.
Since when the hell have we reached the point of "zomg, someone learned something without teh intertubes"??
Because if other people haven't learned to basics of coding over the last few decades without the use of the internet, I'd be completely shocked. The internet is not a pre-requisite to learning, as much as people seem to think it is.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Say it ain't so!
My god, there's crual and unusual punishment, but making they have to read from a book - where's Amnesty International when you need them??
How does this idiot think everyone up until the 90s learnt to code?
You merely contract to an overseas resource. The Indian company sells their services to mega-corp US, and use you as part of a pool of developers. Don't expect a decent income, though. Most globals are doing this already. They buy coding resources from India, get the source back, bang it into shape. It's far cheaper to get 90% for not a lot, and fix the bugs. The banking/c-card industry got in their first. Manufacturing and retail will be next.
The Indian companies won't hire Americans. They only believe in Globalism when it benefits them.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
You're more likely to get background checked as a gardener than a programmer at a startup or small business. Nobody expects a programmer to have a record, so they're not looking for it.
If there's even a checkbox on the application, you just lie. Chances are good that they'll never check at a small place. And it's a safe bet that while you won't get hired if they do, and an even smaller chance that you'd get fired if they find out later, they won't bin your application if you lie.