http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/15817/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/code-read/34496 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Free Code Camp in Halifax convenes next generation of computer programmers </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/codecamp_003.sm_.jpg" alt="" title="Keith Adams became one of the first members of the Halifax chapter of Free Code Camp, an online peer community for computer programmers, to learn how to build a website to sell his music online. Now he hosts the group&#039;s local meetups, in order to help empower others to learn vital programming skills. photo: Chris Muise" width="450" height="317" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>KJIPUKTUK (Halifax)&mdash;&ldquo;Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for life&rdquo; is an old familiar adage A new Halifax community has sprung up around updating that mantra for the 21st century&mdash;not to teach people how to fish, but to code.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/code-read/34496" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/code-read/34496#comments Chris Muise Education Ideas coding computers education Halifax Internet technology Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:59:21 +0000 Moira Peters 34496 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca