kreeWall

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data analyst, code newbie, potential podcast creator.

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Comment · 1 month ago

Thank you for sharing. We recently had a kidney transplant in our family, and it's nice to hear positive stories of organ transplants, since we've been so fascinated with the whole science aspect of it.

Comment · 1 year ago

Hi Mr. Roberts;

Thank you for doing this, yet again - your insights are always so valuable. I am on an H1B, and my company applied for a Greencard, and I have received a Priority Date with my i-140 (sorry if I'm not using the correct terms here, this process confuses me). When am I able to leave my current employer without losing my priority date? Would I need to get my new employer to apply for an H1B transfer and extension for me, or how does that work? Thank you!!

Comment · 1 year ago

Hi Peter, thank you so much for doing this AMA! I'm currently trying to decide whether to appeal an EB1A decision - they agreed to meeting "plain language" for 3 criteria, but denied the application on final merit.

What kind of considerations would you advise your clients to think of when making this decision?

Comment · 2 years ago

Additionally, Pixar has a really good and robust coding lesson - called Pixar in a Box - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar Not sure if this is quite the right aged resource for her, but might be nice for you to have in your back pocket.

Happy to help with pointing you to any resources you may need to keep her engaged!

Comment · 2 years ago

OBSESSED! She did SO good!

I taught young girls to code (founder of nonprofit Girls Code Lincoln, based in Nebraska USA) for the past few years - I love this! A few resources that you may be interested in sharing with her, age appropriate for her:

Youtube series that we did where our students interviewed women in STEM - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-32uv45Ln4VJGhVr_jr6...

Podcast series where we talked about historical women in STEM + a current woman in STEM - we recommended people listen to this in the car when their kids are there. https://girlscodelincoln.buzzsprout.com/

My email if you need anything at all, or would like further resources for your daughter. [email protected] / [email protected]

TED talk that I did about HOW to get your daughter interested in STEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guoLTuW8AX4&t=10s

Comment · 2 years ago

I've taught code to children for years as the founder of a coding nonprofit, and this is a great way of laying out logic. Block code is very often taught to children and is a pet peeve of mine as it doesn't translate into strongly typed code for them, so we lose a number of kids in the shuffle when they believe code is too hard. Thank you for sharing!

If you were wanting to build on this, one of the greatest struggles, particularly with children, is syntax and spelling errors. They very often misspell words like "background" when we're teaching web dev, or forget their brackets and semicolons, so their code doesn't run.

If you were to make something similar but in a language they're already learning, such as Javascript, Java or Python (which, in my opinion, are the most common languages taught to kiddos), that might be useful.

Happy to chat more about this if you're looking for more on this perspective.

Comment · 3 years ago

This ^^

Comment · 4 years ago

I work with 4th-9th grade girls teaching them code, and recommend this to them to work on over the summer! It's a great curriculum and does an awesome job pulling children in!

Comment · 4 years ago