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Women who transformed computer science
Today, there are many organizations focused on bringing more women into computer science. Girls Who Code, GoldieBox or Black Girls Code are only a few examples. Despite of being outnumbered, history shows that women had a substantial impact on the field of computer science. Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper or France Allen were essential groundbreakers.
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Africa Code Week: MOOC Teaching Programming to Young Learners
Are you a teacher? Are you involved in young peoples' extra-curricular activities? Then this course could be for you. Whatever subjects you normally teach, you and your learners are surrounded by modern digital technology. This course will help you to encourage today's young digital consumers to become tomorrow's digital creators. It is based around the popular Scratch system that is capturing the imagination of children around the globe. Start date: 2 June
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Learn more about digital literacy
Microsoft Digital Literacy will help you understand the digital world. In this website, you will have access to many courses, from safety online to how technology can improve your lifestyle.
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The 3 best apps to teach children coding
Today's children live in a very different world from their parents when they were the same age. Many of the toys they play with are digital and from an early age they start to be in contact with many web services, such as Youtube or Google. It is one thing to know how to use these programs, it's a different thing to understand how the logic behind them works. Today's children need to be able to not only consume this technology, but to understand it and control it. These 3 applications will make learning how to code an exciting adventure.
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Africa Code Week – get involved!
Africa Code Week aims to empower African youth with the coding skills they need to prosper in their career. The initiate will officially be launched during the World Economic Forum on Africa (Cape Town, 3–5 June) and a pilot event will take place at the Cape Town Science Centre from June 1 to June 4.
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For Teachers: Coding Lesson Plans
Did you know that coding in the classroom is linked to improved problem solving and analytical reasoning? Coding is a new type of literacy that improves educational equity and STEM proficiency. If you were looking for ideas to help you introduce coding in your classroom, you found them.
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7 actions that will improve digital skills and create more jobs in Europe
Even though almost 24 million Europeans are currently unemployed, tech companies have a hard time finding digital skilled professionals. By 2020, there will be up to 825,000 unfilled vacancies for Information and Communications technology (ICT) specialists. However, not only ICT experts will need digital skills, in the near future almost every job will require some level of digital skills.
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Why aren't there more women in computer science?
Tech jobs are growing three times faster than universities are producing computer science graduates. From those graduates, only a small percentage will be women. Today, women represent merely 30% of the information and communication technology (ICT) workforce.
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Summer of Code in Space – European Space Agency
The European Space Agency is looking for student software developers from across Europe to participate in its Summer of Code in Space. Winning applicants will be paid to develop innovative open-source software for space projects.
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Job of the Month | Technical Programme Manager
The job of a technical programme manager involves overseeing the technical elements of a software development project. The role requires familiarity with a number of technical aspects, including database, networks, and security, so a technical manager should have experience in a number of software development positions.
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