v1.0 is live now. 🚀❤️
three years in the making — it’s officially here. codédex v1.0 is a love letter to technology, creativity, and the ways they keep us together… despite everything. 💌
we’re *live* on product hunt — please show some love! ⬇️🧵
Hi Computer Science educators! If you’re looking to get your students to code for the first time in a fun way, this one’s for you. You can track student progress as they take coursework on our site and watch them lvl up and gain exposure to middle school, high school, and collegiate level computer science.
Tag a teacher who you think should see this, and comment if you want more details! 🍎
#cseducation #compsci #computerscienceeducation #csstudent #edtech
We've had a BUSY Q3 and we want you to be a part of it - try out our newest features that our product team has been stirring up and read about the changes on https://t.co/Pvah0w2bId.
#edtech#techstartup#learntocode#codingplatform
I miss being able to see my poster wall and natural lighting... also closeup of the keyboard I won from @codedex_io monthly challenge! I'm still so in love with the sound of it
#setup
Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it
In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.
Her fix wasn’t just to patch the bug. Everytime there was a crash, she took a Polaroid of the programmer who wrote it, and a note on the mistake. That way, if it ever happened again, they wouldn't be starting from scratch. They could note patterns and the last person who triaged that failure could help.
This is a critical aspect of what she gave us. She didn’t stop at fixing errors. She studied their patterns so she could see them coming. She called them “the enemy,” and she meant it.
Initially, when she was working on failure modes, higher-ups were errors wouldn't happen she actually named her program “Forget It.” But failures did happen. And her mindset, and discipline sent men to the Moon.
Her Apollo software was built to expect the unexpected, and on Apollo 11 it recognized an overload mid-landing and kept the critical tasks running.
Every postmortem, every bug tracker, every “let’s make sure this never happens again” carries a little of her in it.
Thank you, and rest in peace, Margaret Hamilton 🚀
from game dev animation to remixing code to projects you can complete on your own - here are some cool tech concepts you should catch up on alongside us!
#learntocode#csmajor#compsci#techstartup
#knighthood@codedex_io
I was declared as a knight💪🔥
code:
std::string name = "Aland";
std::cout << "In the name of the Warrior, I charge you to be brave.\n";
std::cout << "In the name of the Father, I charge you to be just.\n";
std::cout << "In the name of the Mother, I charge you to defend the innocent.\n";
std::cout << "Arise, " << name << ", a knight of the Seven Kingdoms.";
output:
Codédex Update is here! It’s your boy Sonny with a big update on everything that went down in Q3:
🚀 Builds Editor v1.1
📛 Community Badges
🏁 On-Platform Projects
🥳 Asiqur → CTO
💚 Gen Z Builders Networking Nite
Catch up here: https://t.co/Pvah0w2bId
irene is an OG learner and one of the main reasons why we have a leaderboard on codédex today (she made a video a while back full of feature suggestions).
pls take a moment to read her post and send her some love in the comments:
https://t.co/cmvBN8jBxl
We’re kicking off our October Monthly challenge 🎃 Hone in your writing skills and write a piece that resonates with you to win some cash prizes! P.S. - this is our last monthly challenge for a bit. Get those blog posts in!
An incredibly honest, candid, and unfiltered reflection on creative coding, where it’s been, how it’s changed, and what it means to find yourself questioning a space you still deeply care about.
Read the full story at https://t.co/Lc4dvbK13u
A Personal History of the Creative Coding Zeitgeist 🧵
“I will will be honest: I’ve been feeling a sense of malaise about the state of Creative Technology.
Yikes. It feels strange – almost forbidden – to say that out loud. I’m a tech educator, after all.”
“Where is the spark I once felt? Is this a classic kind of nostalgia that hits you when you're several years removed from that early-career idealism?”
In the latest blog, our Sr. Curriculum Dev Julien revisits the people and tools that first ignited his love for this space.