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‘Hacker Boot Camps’ Offering Bay Area Students Computer-Science Skills
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Want to launch a lucrative career as a software engineer but don’t have a computer-science degree? Maybe it’s time for a hacker boot camp. At least that’s the pitch from a new...
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Google ‘Made With Code’ $50 Million Campaign Seeks Girl Geeks, More Women In...
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) — Getting more high school girls into computer science – and more women into male-dominated Silicon Valley – is the purpose of a $50 million campaign launched by Google Thursday....
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Google, Square Hoping To Solve Gender Imbalance Through Recruiting
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Silicon Valley tech giants have been taking heat for a gender imbalance among staff, particularly in the fields of engineering and coding, and now they’re doing something about...
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From Prisoners To Programmers — San Quentin Inmates Are Learning How To Code
SAN RAFAEL (CBS SF) — A very lucky group of inmates at San Quentin are getting a high-tech break. They are learning how to code. They’re getting top-notch instruction in Java Script, HTML and CSS...
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Just How Much Do Bay Area Coding Internships Pay?
Across the board, employees are taking in high salaries, but one group in particular within tech is making almost unbelievable amounts of money—coding interns.
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Facial Recognition: The Emotional Key To The Next NBA Championship?
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— Whether you call it Moneyball, NBA 3.0, or advanced analytics, sports teams are always looking for that edge to win a championship, but could the key to being the best be a...
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‘The Last Mile’ Transforms San Quentin Inmates Into Tech Entrepreneurs
SAN QUENTIN (KPIX 5) — It’s Demo Day. Chung Kao is serving a life sentence for 2nd degree murder. He’s been behind bars for 23 years now. His pitch? A voice-coded trigger lock that can be traced by...
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Twin Brothers Teaching Millions Of Kids That Coding Can Be Fun
SAN RAFAEL (KPIX 5) — Today, one in ten elementary and middle school students are learning how to code, and thousands of instructors are learning how to teach programming, because of twin brothers with...
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Teenagers Create Free Program To Teach Other Kids Computer Coding
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) Most high school students would rather spend their summer vacations far away from the classroom. But Jefferson Award winners Vineet Kosaraju and Nikhil Cheerla are choosing to go back...
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Students Rising Above Teach Low-Income Kids How To Code
(KPIX 5) — Good computer literacy is vital nowadays, especially in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. Stevon Cook knows this firsthand. He is the CEO of Mission Bit, a small startup with big goal:...
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Apple CEO: More Computer Science, Coding Education Needed
NEW YORK (CBS / AP) — Teaching kids to code is just as important as teaching them any other language. And the younger they start learning it, the better, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday. Cook spoke...
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Draymond Green Learns To Code At Oakland High School In Push To Bridge...
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Warriors’ star Draymond Green was at Oakland High Wednesday to learn how to code in a push for quality computer science classes for all kids. Ms. Johnson’s computer coding class was...
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East Bay Student Becomes Coding Whiz After Tough Childhood
by Sherry Hu and Christina Arce (KPIX 5) — Abel Regalado may not have grown up with computers – it was in the 6th grade when he got his first iPod – but now he’s hooked. Technology is more than a hobby...
View ArticleNonprofit Teaches Kids To Code For Free
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) On a recent sunny afternoon, a group of Laurelwood elementary school students quickly scampered into an afterschool class that has proven so popular, there is a waiting list to get...
View ArticleSome Former Students, Employees Say Apple Co-Founder’s Woz U Doesn’t Live Up...
(CBS News) — Americans are enrolling in computer coding “boot camps” in record numbers, but a CBS News investigation uncovers problems at Woz U, one of the field’s newest and most recognizable...
View Article‘Hack’ Creates Kids’ Computer That Makes Learning To Code Fun
Roberta ‘Beta’ Antunes, CEO of Hack talks to Bay Area Focus host Michelle Griego about a new computer for kids that makes learning to code fun.
View ArticleSan Francisco-Based Holberton Coding School Facing Fraud Accusations From...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Coding schools are cropping up all over the country, touting a fast track to a six-figure software engineering job. But dozens of students at one Bay Area school say they got a...
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East Bay Program Helps Thousands Of Kids Learn Coding Skills
DUBLIN (KPIX 5) – Children in the East Bay’s Tri-Valley are learning coding, thanks to a community program started by this week’s Jefferson Award winners, a mother and son from Dublin. Six-year-old...
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