How does a block chain work?

Sonic Pi - An Interactive Sound Workshop

Design your life

Programming Music

Understand what's like to not understand

Debbie: "California is where you first published your first guidebook: LA Access. What made you decide to do that at that time?"
Richard: "Like everything else, I moved there. I couldn't find my way around. I couldn't find a good guidebook. So I did one. Nobody asked me to do it. I am not a publisher. The book... each of my project is a roadmap from not knowing to knowing. I didn't know LA. I was living there I couldn't find something that was a good guidebook. I am not trying to do guidebooks. I am not trying to do anything.  I am trying to fill in the black hole that's in your stomach of not knowing. Something that I am curious about. I didn't do it for the other people. It seems to help me. What helps me because I am kind of dumb, it helps other people too.

Debbie: "You said that your biggest lesson in life has been understanding of what's it like to not understand."
Richard: "That's it.
Debbie: "and this is with you every minute of the day."
Richard: "absolutely"
Richard:"... he said he suffered from the disease of familiarity"
Debbie: " What's that"
Richard: "That he  knows so much about what he is talking about that he didn't understand what it's like not to understand. so he didn't sort of let me in...quite...and most faculty members have that in schools, most people have that when they know something very well, it is very difficult to understand what's like to not know the door way. the threads hold in. and then you never going to understand the subject that they are talking about if you miss those first few steps.
Debbie: "When you said he doen't know how to let you in, what do you mean?"
Richard: "if a person doesn't know how to count, and you are talking about numbers, you din't let him in. It is not an act to try to keep him out, it's just that you don't know that they don't know how to count. and a lot of conversations between people never gets started. because one person dosn't understand what's like to not understand what they are talking about.

Beauty of data visualization

Learn to see

How Do Machine Learn?

Transform Your Presence

"Albert Einstein once said that try not to be a man of success but to be a man of value. Now we all have credentials that make us good at what we do but to be remarkable, unforgettable, ask yourself how do I want people to feel when they work with me? What is that one feeling that will be synonymous with me?"

Let's stop calling them 'soft skills'

"...It's not about hard skills...For me, it is actually about soft skills... We made a list of what we were looking for, someone to work with...What I want is somebody who can see, who can speak clearly, who can be honest, who can transform themselves when necessary, who care about other people." - Seth Godin

The secrete language of letter design

Explore career opportunities

Check out thousands of featured videos of women role models pursuing different careers.
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Stories
From Music and Biology Major to Become a Security Hacker
From Tango to Business Development at Square

How to build a company where the best ideas win

Becoming a Data Scientist

How do I become a data scientist?
Five questions data science answers 
How to learn data science 
How to become a data scientist in 2017? 
Introduction to data science

Seth Godin's Top 10 Rules For Success (@ThisIsSethsBlog)

The Truth About Your Calling With Seth Godin

"This isn't about waiting for the right answer, because there is no right answer. There are challenges we can sign up for and emotions we can experience."

 

"...if you are waiting for the perfect horse on that carousel to come around you missed 3, 4, 5, 7 cycles while you were waiting. All the horses are just as good. It's the same carousel. Just get on the damn horse!"

 

"...it's does this interaction leave behind a trail that I'm proud of and does having the interaction make me glad that I did it and want to do it again..."

 

"You gain trust and permission by showing up in a way that you want someone to show up for you."

 

"Productivity is an economic measure of how much you output for the amount of time and resources you put in."

 

"We have to acknowledge we have finite resources, finite time, finite connection. How will we use them to produce outcomes that we are proud of?" 

 

"Dealing with disappointment and setbacks:

We can be mindful,

We can be present,

We can breathe,

and We can say: "That's interesting." 

 

"The long way is the shortcut." 

 

"...what is school for?.... I think it's for two things: teach people to lead and teach them to solve interesting problems. The way you do that is by teaching kids to fail at solving interesting problems because that's the only way you ever get good at solving interesting problems." 

 

"...what it means to be a free range kid: come home with straight A's is fine, I'll accept that, but what I'd rather have you do is come home and tell me something amazing that you LEARNED with the spirit of doing something GOOD for someone else, come home and tell me some really dramatic FAILURE that occurred as you were trying to solve an interesting problem."

 

"Permission is the  privilege of being looked forward to and being missed when you are gone."

"Our goal isn't to touch everyone. OUr goal is to touch someone. To change someone, just one person. If you get good at that, do 5, then do 100. Stop worrying about everyone. Everyone doesn't matter."

 

 

 

 

WIE ILC 2015: I Change the World. I am an Engineer a Keynote with Kristen Pressner VP of Roche

WIE ILC 2015: I Change the World. I am an Engineer a Keynote with Kristen Pressner VP of Roche: I Change the World. I am an Engineer a Keynote with Kristen Pressner VP of Roche

Developer CV and Tech Interviews

How to write a cv for developer jobs
8 Skills programmer must master before a technical interview
Ace the coding whiteboard interview
Google Coding Interview Question and Answer #1
How to crack Google code interview

Practice technical interviews with engineers online

What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates?

Insightful advice and tips from CEO of interviewing.io 

Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview

Resources for technical / coding practice and interview:
Tech Interview Handbook

Cracking the Code Interview
HackerRank Programming Challenges
Interviewing.io
Interview Cake
Leetcode 
Interview Prep with Top Companies

Insights from the CEO of interviewing.io

Message sent

Creative Entrepreneurship

Creative Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Kickstarter Cofounder Yancey Strickler

Seth Godin's 10 Rules

Design thinking and the art of critique

Programming as Performance (2)

"...Music start to help us engage broader audiences and beyond. That's not to say that we should all be doing music. That's just one of many things we could be doing. But when we start using computer languages to represent our own humanity, our own ideas, then we are going to engage broader audiences. We are going to get more people involved and enjoy programming."

Ted Talks: Secretes to understanding life

Playlist: Secretes to understanding life

Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work:

"What we are finding is not necessarily that reality shapes us, but through which lens the brain views the world that shapes reality. If we could change the lens, not only can we change happiness, we can change every single educational business outcome at the same time."

"90% of your long term happiness is not predicted by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world."

The era of blind faith in big data must end

Programming as Performance (1)

Sonic Pi - Teaching Kids with Music Programming

How I Found Myself Through Music

Cool Compnies

NewtonX
StreetLib

Both companies are Tech Incubator Customers at Queens College.

Achieve more with less

Lessons Learnt

Lessons from an experienced devs first solo app

What I’ve Learned Over 5 Years as a Software Developer 

How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes

- by Adam Leipzig

"... the happier 20%, each of them knows something about their life purpose:
Who they were?
What they did?
Who they did it for?
What those people wanted or needed?
What they got out of it?
How they changed as a result?"

".... Happier people make a point to make other people happy and do things that make them feel  that they are well taken care of and secure. If you make other people happy, life teaches us, we will be taken care of too.

The Beauty and Joy of Computing

Dan Garcia
TEDx Talk: The Beauty and Joy of Computing
Transforming High School Computer Science

BJC Lecture 1: Abstraction
BJC Lecture 2: 3D Graphics
BJC Lecture 3: Video Games
BJC Lecture 4: Video Games
BJC Lecture 5: Programming Paradigms
BJC Lecture 6: Algorithms
BJC Lecture 7: Algorithmic Complexity
BJC Lecture 8: Concurrency
BJC Lecture 9: Recursion I
BJC Lecture 10: Social Implications of Computing I
BJC Lecture 11: Recursion II
BJC Lecture 14: HCI
BJC Lecture 15: Artificial Intelligence
BJC Lecture 16: Computational Game Theory
BJC Lecture 17: Higher Order Functions
BJC Lecture 20: The Internet
BJC Lecture 22: Saving the World with Computing
BJC Lecture: 25: Farewell

Don't Just Learn To Code, Learn To Create

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all."

Teaching creative computer science

"Education should prepare young people for jobs that do not yet exist, using technologies that have not yet been invented, to solve problems of which we are not yet aware." - Richard Riley

Computer science education: why does it suck so much and what if it didn’t?

Make A Connection

7 tips for networking
The person you have not met yet

Compuer science is for everyone

"In this day and age, computer science is no longer just vocational for getting a job. This day and age, computer science is completely foundational for any job you may want to have in the next 20 or 30 years."

Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

"There were the books of knowledge that you might read, then go ahead and impart your knowledge through innovation, through creativity, through technology, but mankind will never be the wiser about its future, unless it is coupled with the sense of love and compassion for their fellow beings. The two and half alphabets which form the word prem, which means love, if you are able to understand and practice it, that itself is enough to enlighten mankind."

The art of doing twice as much in half the time

How school kids learn starts at 13:00

The successful team "Made their work visible. The team was given the responsibility of fixing the problem. They self organized to make it happen."

"It needs to be self organizing and self motivated teams. Management needs to let go and step out of the way so the team can figure out what to do."

How to gain control of your free time

"Everything I do, every minute I spend, is my choice."

Queens College Computer Science Students Contributing to Queens Memory Project

Times Ledger:  Queens Memory helps residents share life experience
Western Queens Gazette:  New mobile app makes it easy to share memories

Mary Meeker's 2017 Tech Report Takeways

Mary Meeker's 2017 Tech Report Takeaways from LinkedIn Editors' Picks

New rules of persuasive presentations

The storytellers secrete

"... one investor told me, if you cannot summarize your idea in one sentence, we are not interested."

"You can not inspire until you are inspired yourself."

Steve Job's Top 10 Rules for Success

Design your life

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Programming, Arts and Humanities

Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, by Nick Mortfort
Computer Science Paper Generator

Useful websites for coding challenges

• https://codefights.com/ -- has timed problems for all skill levels, great for starting
• https://www.codewars.com/
• https://leetcode.com/
• https://www.hackerrank.com/
• https://www.topcoder.com/
• https://icpcarchive.ecs.baylor.edu/ -- website with official problems from ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest -- good for practice for that contest
• https://uva.onlinejudge.org/

• https://projecteuler.net/ - project Euler -- not coding in particular, but fantastic mathematical challenges that are intended to be solved by applying mathematical skills in code.

Hackathons

Major League Hackathon

Coding Schools

Tuition Free Coding University 42 US
Four Weeks of Coding: "Piscine"

Code Academy - Learn to code for free

FreCodeCamp - Learn to code and help nonprofits

Twelve sites that will teach you coding for free

Know your worth, then ask for it

Peter Drucker: How to (Actually) Manage Your Time

Peter Drucker: How to (Actually) Manage Your Time

Program or be programmed

Douglas Rushkoff: "Program or Be Programmed" | Talks at Google

How we can find ourselves in data

Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity

Distributed: A New OS for the Digital Economy

Job searching - lessons learnt

I Spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned.
Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience

Queens College Computer Science Students at the NYC CS Fair

Queens College Computer Science Students at the NYC CS Fair

10 most mentioned GitHub repos in free code camp

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-10-github-repos-people-mention-the-most-in-freecodecamps-main-chat-room-189750600fa4

Projects for CS students - learning a language

https://hackernoon.com/unconventional-way-of-learning-a-new-programming-language-e4d1f600342c

Preparation and Coding Practice for Internship and Job Applications

Preparation and Coding Practice for Internship and Job Applications

Cracking the Coding Interview
Leetcode: a online platform for preparing technical coding interviews
Preparing for Technical Coding Interviews

Practice Coding

Preparation and search for Internship

What we learnt from analyzing coding interviews 
Faster Coding Interview Preparation Using Interactive Visualization
Technical interview resources

Practice technical interviews with engineers online:
Interview.io
Pramp.com

Video Interview

Video interviewing tips and strategies

Advice on Virtual Interviews

How to Exude Your Brand During a Video Interview

4 Essential Tips for job-hunting for new grads

Answering tough questions

Will you pass the Employer’s Social Media Screen?

20 Fastest growing online job skills

The video interview mindset

Soft skills vs. Hard skills in your digital job search

Source: Video Interviews

How to multiply your time

Build your LinkedIn Profile

How do ideas travel?

A TED playlist to watch:   How do ideas travel?

Mapping ideas worth spreading:

Talk to Strangers

Coaches, Mentors and Sponsors

What are the differences between a coach and a mentor, and between a mentor and a sponsor? How does each help you? Read the articles below to find out:

Coaches, mentors and sponsors: understanding the differences
Sponsors vs mentors - what's the difference?
Mentorship vs sponsorship, and how to maximize both

Book:
Forget a mentor, find a sponsor, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. 

Library of Babel - Mind Blowing!

Library of Babel - Mind Blowing!

AI & Design

AI & Design, by Nitzan Hermon, TEDx Albany

How to tell your story

A man came upon a construction site where three people were working.  He asked the first, “What are you doing?” and the man replied: “I am laying bricks.” He asked the second, “What are you doing?” and the man replied: “I am building a wall.” As he approached the third, he heard him humming a tune as he worked, and asked, “What are you doing?” The man stood, looked up at the sky, and smiled, “I am building a cathedral!”

What's your story? How would you tell it?

Nationalism vs. Globalism: the New Political Divide

Weekend Exchange: Meet the Professionals!

Below are audio excerpts from last Sunday's event at the Queens College: "Weekend Exchange: Meet the Professionals!"

1. Life is more interesting when you say "yes"
2. The penalists introduction
3. Change direction in career
4. From legal to computer science
5. Keep your head and heart in sync - episode 1
6. Keep your head and heart in sync - episode 2
7. Importance of mentorship
8. You learn more from failure
9. How to communicate better

How to find a job by graduation

22 Life Lessons I Learned From My Mentors

22 Life Lessons I Learned From My Mentors

How to get better at the things you care about

Building an impressive portfolio

How to build an impressive tech portfolio
Creating a work portifolio

Enterpreneurship & startups

Find your ideas:

20,000 startup ideas

Free classes:

Get Your Startup Started
How to Build a Startup?

Pitch your ideas:

A pitch deck template
Airbnb Pitch Deck

Insights:

Rules for scaling up your company

Job interviews

Job interview advice

Preparing for an interview
Six things that I want you to know before a job interview
Goldman Sachs Edith Cooper on acing job interviews
The Different Types of Interviews
The Art of Selling Yourself
Speaking with Your Body-What to Say and What Not to Say
Soft skills
40 favorite interview questions

Answer questions
Tell me about yourself
How to answer: tell me about yourself
How to answer the 31 most common interview questions
The Dreaded "Weakness" Interview Question
Three of the toughest interview questions and how to answer them 
How to answer the 31 most common interview questions
Top 16 Common Interview Questions and Answers 

Ask questions
Why you should ask questions at your next tech company interview
3 rarely asked interview questions every job seeker should ask
Ask Employers Questions That Matter
More Questions to Ask Employers

After the interview
Beyond the thank you note four things to do after your job interview
Post Interview Self Evaluation

What not to do
4 Smart Moves You Didn’t Realize Sink Your Chances in an Interview

More...
How to handle back to back interviews
Nail your next job interview
What you need to know to nail a last minute interview?

Job interview online classes

Master common interview questions
Mastering the Software Engineering interview

Resume building

Must read:
How to turn an ok resume into an extraordinary resume
Resume writing guide

The basics
The 3 R's of resume writing: research, research, research
Tips for writing an engineering resume
Writing an engineering resume
Technical summary
Volunteer experience


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Resume templates and sample resumes
Technology resume samples
41 resume templates

The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn

6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

    6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

The plasure of finding things out

Richard Feynman - The Pleasure of Finding... by Mazanga_Von_Badman

Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine

Books by Richard Feynman:

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Grady Booch: Enjoy the beauty of what you're doing but also take responsibility!

"I Think, Therefore I Am" IBM Fellow Grady Booch on Computing: The Human Experience

For anyone who is interested in Artificial Intelligence:

Next ten years: profession of IT Architect

"... we are doing things that change the way people live, work and love. That has a deep responsiblity for us relative to the human side of it. ...what we must deal with as IT Architects has a very delicious and wonderful technical side of things, but it also has a very human side to it as well. The question was posed to me... "how does one bridge the gap from being a true leader to becoming a thought leader?" As I pondered it a bit, I realized that's the wrong question in some ways, because the world does not need more and more thought leaders. there are plenty of people think deep and in great thoughts. What the world needs more of are people who can create those great thoughts, take the great thoughts of others and make them real. And I think of Steve Jobs, one of my heros, certainly made that manifest. It's not the thinkers, and we do need the thinkers, but we also need the doers, and that is what we are as IT architects. Becasue we are not just ones who sit in the ivory towersand pontificate what the world ought to be, but rather we are the ones who help make the world actually that way. So it is being doers that our challenges to be and being doers who are the ones who are cognizant of the privileges and responsibilities of doing what we do." - Grady Booch

Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

The mind behind Linux

"...my sister said that my biggest exceptional quality was that I would not let go.
...
...I am not a visionary. I do not have a five-year plan. I'm an engineer. And I think it's really -- I mean -- I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds and looking at the stars and saying, "I want to go there." But I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in. This is the kind of person I am.
"

The next step in nanotechnology

Adventures in Twitter fiction

Liberal art education, natural science, engineering, computer science and social science

Liberal art education, natural science, engineering, computer science and social science

"A liberal arts education, as one might understandably mistake, isn’t about studying literature or history alone. As tempting as that might sound, a liberal arts education is an education created for a free citizen, for them to cultivate the wide-ranging, deeply intellectual skills that are required for being active citizens of a democracy.
You can become an engineer through a liberal arts education; you will simply be an engineer with knowledge and skills that go far beyond (broader) the technical knowledge of engineering....
...
“It’s not about learning what to think or do, it’s about learning how to think or do,”..You can know the prescribed solution to thousands of problems and know the existing knowledge in your field like the back of your hand, that’s what an excellent traditional education will give you. However, ...what would happen when tomorrow you’re faced with a new problem – one that isn’t in the guidebook now? “And that’s where a liberal arts curriculum that contains a problem-solving unit, training you extensively on skills like drawing analogies, reverse-engineering abstractions, solutions and identifying the right problem will help you,” ...
...

The beauty of what we'll never know

"...

So when we said goodbye that night, I realized he had also shown me the secret point of travel, which is to take a plunge, to go inwardly as well as outwardly to places you would never go otherwise, to venture into uncertainty, ambiguity, even fear.

At home, it's dangerously easy to assume we're on top of things. Out in the world, you are reminded every moment that you're not, and you can't get to the bottom of things, either.

3:25Everywhere, "People wish to be settled," Ralph Waldo Emerson reminded us, "but only insofar as we are unsettled is there any hope for us."...

I don't believe that ignorance is bliss. Science has unquestionably made our lives brighter and longer and healthier. And I am forever grateful to the teachers who showed me the laws of physics and pointed out that three times three makes nine. I can count that out on my fingers any time of night or day. But when a mathematician tells me that minus three times minus three makes nine, that's a kind of logic that almost feels like trust.

4:51The opposite of knowledge, in other words, isn't always ignorance. It can be wonder. Or mystery.Possibility. And in my life, I've found it's the things I don't know that have lifted me up and pushed me forwards much more than the things I do know. It's also the things I don't know that have often brought me closer to everybody around me....Knowledge is a priceless gift. But the illusion of knowledge can be more dangerous than ignorance.......transformation comes when I'm not in charge, when I don't know what's coming next, when I can't assume I am bigger than everything around me. And the same is true in love or in moments of crisis. Suddenly, we're back in that trishaw again and we're bumping off the broad, well-lit streets; and we're reminded, really, of the first law of travel and, therefore, of life: you're only as strong as your readiness to surrender.
In the end, perhaps, being human is much more important than being fully in the know."