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Coding
Sun, 2014-02-02 11:47
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Coding
Sun, 2014-02-02 11:48
#2
LIGHTHOUSE LABS TO TEACH 500 PEOPLE TO CODE AT HUGE FREE EVENT NEXT MONTH
http://www.betakit.com/lighthouse-labs-to-teach-500-people-to-code-at-hu...
Sun, 2014-02-02 11:49
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Sun, 2014-02-02 11:51
#4
Over 1,000 were turned away
Lighthouse Labs Presents the HTML500, Canada's Largest Learn-to-Code Event
On Feb 1st, 500 participants will spend a day with Lighthouse Labs and 50 tech companies learning the basics required to build a website, raising awareness of the expanding Vancouver tech industry and the need for talent in local companies.
Sun, 2014-02-02 12:31
#5
This is fantastic! Thanks, NR.
Personal peeve: After all these years that the internet has become the most important means of human communication, creation of websites still eludes most mortals. HTML is one of the stupidest languages I have ever had the misfortune of learning. Rather than teach it, they should impeach it.
Sun, 2014-02-02 12:41
#6
Well, the main focus here is to get young folks to sign on for a $7,000 course rather trhan just go to community college and take an introductory course for $500.
At one time employers paid to train their employees. What a con job education has become for the young. Just another way for the rich to become richer.
Sun, 2014-02-02 13:29
#7
Well, the main focus here is to get young folks to sign on for a $7,000 course rather trhan just go to community college and take an introductory course for $500.
At one time employers paid to train their employees. What a con job education has become for the young. Just another way for the rich to become richer.
Ah.... I totally missed that angle! Thanks again, NR.
Sun, 2014-02-02 14:10
#8
Creating a rabble comment includes the basic "ecosystem" without having to code in HTML...
<b>bold</b> <i>italics</i> <u>underline</u>
- <ul><li>unordered</li>
- <li>list</li></ul>
- <ol><li>ordered</li>
- <li>list</li></ol>
<a href="http://rabble.ca/babble/science-technology/coding">link</a> unlink <a name="anchor">anchor</a>
<img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/dreamyrabble_logo.png" alt="image">
<blockquote>blockquote</blockquote>
<html><head><title>Coding</title></head><body>HTML</body></html>
<hr>horizontal ruler
emoticons are not part of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 
<pre>plain text</pre>
Mon, 2014-02-03 01:20
#9
radiorahim
Personal peeve: After all these years that the internet has become the most important means of human communication, creation of websites still eludes most mortals. HTML is one of the stupidest languages I have ever had the misfortune of learning. Rather than teach it, they should impeach it.
Most personal/non-profit websites these days run on a content management system like Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Wordpress being pretty easy but not so flexible and Drupal being harder but very flexible. Joomla being somewhere in the middle.
Wordpress was originally designed for blogs, but you can also use it for "normal" sites with plug-ins etc. I rebuilt an old static site at work using Wordpress a couple of years ago. My HTML skills are not great but you pickup a lot of it through osmosis.