What's Up for Nontrads Monday, July 6th, 2015. The Scholy app plus Harvard also has a free coding class!

Last posting featured Khan Academy's FREE coding class online.

Now Harvard is also offering a free coding class. Here is that link: Free Harvard Online Coding Course: Is Coding for You?

From the article:

"Lessons introduce students to: binary, algorithms, Boolean expressions, arrays, threads, Linux, C, cryptography, debugging, security, dynamic memory allocation, compiling, assembling, File I/O, hash tables, trees, HTTP, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Ajax, and dozens of other topics. You won’t finish the course as a fluent programmer, but you’ll have a solid understanding of how programming languages work."

You can also get credit for this course by enrolling in it, which is "about $2,050". Which is good if you think you will need it later on.

Another neat find:

Did you watch the latest (or repeat) Shark Tank last week? They featured an app maker who made a Scholarship App called Scholy. It has 10,000 - 20,000 different scholarships on it. Plus the price is definitely right at only 99 cents.

It's definitely give it a try. And if you do, comment below on whether you like it or not.

Betsyanne

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My most recent posting: Learn about Coding from Khan Academy this Summer for Free.

Learn about coding this summer from Khan Academy for free.

Khan Academy is offering a free summer class in coding.

Here is a copy of an email I got today from Khan Academy.

Maybe you have heard of it. It's a site that offers free classes in all kinds of subjects.
  
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Hi,  ________,

I'm Pamela, and I teach programming for Khan Academy. Now that we live in a world where so much of our lives go through computers—our personal interactions, our health tracking, our jobs—I think it's increasingly important for everyone to learn how computers work and how you can program them to do what you want. I love programming because it's empowering and creative, and I want you to get a taste of that too, in our Intro to JavaScript course. 

I wanted to make it easier for you to get into programming, so I've created our Summer of Scripting. Sign up, and from mid-June to mid-August, I'll send you emails with your goals for the week. 

Sign up for Summer of Scripting

We'll also have weekly contests for everyone in our coding community, so you'll have even more ways to practice programming and show off your growing skills to your friends.

Spend three hours a week with us this summer, and by the end of it, you'll know the fundamentals of JavaScript, one of the world's most popular languages. See you soon! 

I got this email through signing up at Khan Academy. So you will probably get to be on the mailing list for signing up for this.

Pamela
Teacher, coder, creator

 











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FYI: Some of my other websites and blogs are: The Find Scholarships and Grants Blog, The GS Betsy's E-blast (for Kentuckiana Area 17 and Beyond), From the Garden Spot (another Betsyanne blog), and The Teacher Tree (I will be working more on this one later this year).
 

Summer plans, going forward, going backward - - - there are so many choices.

Choices, choices, choices.

It seems like that is one thing being a grownup is all about. It really IS all up to us. And it is not always easy. Drifting along with the current seems to be easy sometimes, and then when we really think about it, it might not be getting us what we really want in life. And time continues to go by.

Summer seems like a time of choices to me. Then there is the Fall, when school starts up again. What to do... have you learned all you want to learn? Are you in a rut or can't think if there are any choices for you?

What IS true is that sometimes a person can think there is no chance of a change, when actually there IS.

When it comes to school, you can look up what it will take to get another certification or degree. Are you at a crossroads? Or have you decided to go back to school?

If you think going back to school as a nontraditional student is something you might want to do, now is the time to talk to somebody at your local college about it, and see what your options are. There could be a #scholarship or #grant available you could take advantage of, or a School-to-Work program locally.

AND there is also Summer School.

OR vacation, which may or may not do a lot for your career or school plans.

Write a comment - what are YOUR plans for this summer?

Here are some more postings that you might like, about Summer School and Summer plans.

Good luck, too!

Betsyanne

My last posting: Treading water is sometimes NOT a good thing... thoughts on change.

And here are more Nontrad links:

Summer School or NOT Summer School

10 Summer Ideas for Nontrads

And here are more Nontraditional Student sites:

Nontrads on Facebook

Nontrads on Yahoo, and

Nontrads on Twitter