“In 2015 I knew almost nothing about coding. Today, I’m a software engineer and a teacher at a code school for kids.”
How I went from fashion model to software engineer in 1 year
Category Archives: Careers
A 19 Year-old with 4 Businesses
With four businesses to his name and a ministerial award for innovation, Ashutosh Sharma has already achieved more than your typical 19-year-old.
Those achievements – and the plans he has for future ventures – have been spurred by a passion for technology. (read more)
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How a self-taught teenager built an operating system that runs in your browser
Arizona teenager Aaron Adams built and maintains this awe-inspiring solo project. Developed entirely in the cloud using c9.io’s online development environment, aOS (short for ) is an impressive tool, packed with a whole bunch of features and opportunities for customization.
Will Robots Take My Job?
From the “About” page of willrobotstakemyjob.com:
In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne published a report titled “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”. The authors examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation, by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisation for 702 detailed occupations, using a Gaussian process classifier.
According to their estimates, about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk. Although the report is specific to the US job market, it is easy to see how this might apply all over the world.
We extracted the jobs and the probability of automation from the report and have made it easy to search for your job. We’ve added some additional information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide some additional information about the jobs.
10 Reasons Why You Should Learn JavaScript
One should learn Javascript because it’s the most popular programming language in the world. Javascript works on an astonishingly varied number of platforms and devices including IoT. (read more)
Kiwi code-cracker heads to Oxford to hone her craft
“The 25-year-old Chapman, of Auckland, just completed a masters in computing and information sciences at AUT University. She possesses a rare mind hard-wired to navigate complex algorithms in a way that even the most mathematically savvy out there would find difficult.”
(read more @ futurefive.co.nz)
Are “codies” the new “tradies”?
“There will be the equivalence of blue collar jobs in the digital economy, and coding will be one of them,” says Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz, PwC chair in digital economy at the Queensland University of Technology. (read more here)
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Kiwi IT Specialist Makes a Difference in Africa
Every year, around 1,000 volunteers from up to 40 nations (including New Zealand) serve with Mercy Ships. While you can imagine there would be plenty of demand for professionals like surgeons, cooks, mariners and teachers, digitisation has seen IT positions become far more sought after.
Jonathan Clark, a trained information services specialist is a perfect example. In August 2016, Jonathan joined his wife Steph (a nurse) for three months aboard the Africa Mercy, in Benin, West Africa.
Read more here.
TERRIBLE CLIENTS EXPLAINED WITH PIRATES
Here’s a pithy article on managing clients’ demands.
“They crash in through the door, shoving a proposal in your face – it’s on fire. They need a website and they needed it yesterday – if possible, by last weekend. You do work on weekends, don’t you?
Mr. Urgent could be trying to squeeze more work out of you in fewer hours, but it’s more likely that they simply suck at planning – so it’s super important that you don’t.”
