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Michael Amick

Top 10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Code - 0 views

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    Programming is one of the most valuable skills you can pick up in these modern times, whether for career prospects or to stretch your brain and create something awesome. If you're just getting started on your coding journey, here are ten tips and resources to set you off on the right foot.
Michael Amick

Create Easy Infographics, Reports, Presentations | Piktochart - 1 views

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    Piktochart is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics. Make your own infographics here.
Michael Amick

What Code shoudl you learn - 0 views

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    Choosing a programming language takes a lot of consideration: what do you want to do with the language, what platforms you're working with, and what salary range can you expect in the field, and more. This infographic gives you a ton of information about some of the more popular languages.
Michael Amick

Future Tech Jobs - 0 views

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    Modern state of the art throughout the world of tech ranges across many disciplines, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and even biotechnology. How do you know where to start? The following are a few examples of the sort of tech jobs you can expect to see within the next 5 to 10 years if advancements continue along the paths they are going
Michael Amick

Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code - 0 views

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    SAN FRANCISCO - A new educational institution, the coding boot camp, is quietly emerging as the vocational school for the digital age, devoted to creating software developers. These boot camps reflect the start-up ethic: small for-profit enterprises that are fast (classes are two to four months), nimble (revising curriculum to meet industry needs) and unconcerned with SAT scores or diplomas.
Michael Amick

To Bridge the Skills Gap, Focus On Improving Computer Science's Image - 0 views

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    It's becoming increasingly clear that computer science education grapples with a stubborn image problem. And it's one that we simply cannot afford to ignore any longer.
Michael Amick

NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition - 0 views

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    Download the NMC Horizon Report ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.
Michael Amick

Code.org - 0 views

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    Engineers from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter helped create this tutorial. Angry Birds™ & © 2009 - 2013 Rovio Entertainment Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Plants vs. Zombies™ & © 2013 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Michael Amick

Coding Education Programs Expand In U.S. As IT Jobs Market Flourishes - 0 views

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    Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry. With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on individualism and privileging hard work and education, no industry is a better poster child for post-industrial American capitalism than the startup world of coders, marketers, and salesman.
Michael Amick

Minnesota schools scramble to catch up on computer coding classes - 0 views

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    The students in Kirsten Lunzer's fourth-grade class watch as Codey the Troll crosses their computer screen, guided by the program they wrote to leap obstacles and collect blue jelly beans. These programming-savvy students in Minnetonka are on the leading edge of a new high-tech era that has Minnesota schools scrambling to respond to student demand for computer science classes that teach them how to develop software, apps, games and websites.
Michael Amick

​As security breach reports mount, experts fear alert fatigue - CNET - 0 views

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    The geopolitical landscape is ripe for hacks, attacks, and exploits, but just because big breaches are being reported more often doesn't mean you should stop caring.
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    The geopolitical landscape is ripe for hacks, attacks, and exploits, but just because big breaches are being reported more often doesn't mean you should stop caring.
Michael Amick

Hackers hit US supermarket giant SuperValu in latest cyber crime attack | The Drum - 0 views

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    US supermarket chain SuperValu has become the latest business to be targeted by hackers, making up to 1,000 stores vulnerable to the...
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    US supermarket chain SuperValu has become the latest business to be targeted by hackers, making up to 1,000 stores vulnerable to the...
Michael Amick

National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014 | Homeland Security - 2 views

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    The cyber threat has become one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face. America's competitiveness and economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective cybersecurity. Every Internet user has a role to play in securing cyberspace and ensuring the safety of ourselves, our families, and our communities online.
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    The cyber threat has become one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face. America's competitiveness and economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective cybersecurity. Every Internet user has a role to play in securing cyberspace and ensuring the safety of ourselves, our families, and our communities online.
Michael Amick

Hospital network hacked, 4.5 million records stolen - Aug. 18, 2014 - 0 views

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    Hackers have taken 4.5 million Social Security numbers from patients who attended any one of Community Health Systems' 206 hospitals this year.
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    Hackers have taken 4.5 million Social Security numbers from patients who attended any one of Community Health Systems' 206 hospitals this year.
Michael Amick

Norse - IPViking Live - 0 views

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    A realtime Map of cybersecurity attachs
Michael Amick

Here's What Cyber Security Experts Teach Their Kids About The Internet - Business Insider - 3 views

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    How can you teach your children to about Cyber Security.
Michael Amick

Your First Internship: 6 Pieces Of Advice You Wish You Knew | Heather R. Huhman - 1 views

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    Although there are many misconceptions and stereotypes about internships, your first internship is an experience that truly paves the path for your career.
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    Although there are many misconceptions and stereotypes about internships, your first internship is an experience that truly paves the path for your career.
Michael Amick

For Job Security, Try Cybersecurity, Experts Say - 2 views

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    "If any college student asked me what career would most assure thirty years of steady, well-paying employment," said Ross, "I would respond, 'cybersecurity.'"
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