ahsanhilal

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by ahsanhilal 10y ago
Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer, Growth Engineer I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making software for K-12; building a system that integrates al
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by ahsanhilal 10y ago
Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making software for K-12; building a system that integrates all content curricu
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Thanks Jon! Will definitely do
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
sent you an email
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Thanks for the well thought out reply! The course layout you have written out is quite thorough. The only thing is that for someone who does not have any programming background, they need to see immediate results to gain an understanding of
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Thanks for the offer! I will ask the teachers and get back to you
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Yes definitely want to give him a primer of a git or some sort of VCS. Hopefully after we get through some basic python
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Hey Mike (sorry if that is incorrect). Can you email me when you get a chance? I would really like to see your slides in detail if possible. Also, your doing more at 17 then I was, and I would love to talk more. (email in profile)
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
I am using codehs, codeacademy Treehouse is very similar to other ones, Odin Project seems to be for older learners. Bentobox is fantastic! Thanks for the rec!
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Great pick! I Will definitely loo into it. Thanks for the rec!
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
Thanks for the input, appreciate it! I am mostly focusing on tools that give him explicit visual feedback, so that is why I am focusing on html and styling. Write some code and then have it do something on a blank page seems to be powerful.
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Ask HN: Please help me teach CS to a HS student from a very different background
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Luis Suarez biting game(lamordidagame.com)
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by ahsanhilal 12y ago
This is great news! I actually worked with Kalev on this in 2007-2009 in collecting the event database at University of Illinois, and it was one of the most interesting experiences of my life. Glad to see it finally opened up for general pu
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
Exactly teachers have a lot of leeway in how they want to teach something. The most common reasons for failure are that the teacher does not understand exactly what she is teaching. That is a failure of the district and school in not recogn
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I work with over 30 schools in Bay Area, Chicago and New York as well, and have been working with teachers, districts etc on common core for the past two years. The entire point of CCSS is to make sure that WHAT is taught in a grade level d
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
The common core standards which talk about division are described here http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/7/NS At no point do the standards direct you how to teach long division. Rather they try make s
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Japan says Bitcoin not a currency(online.wsj.com)
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
A bit reductionist in its claims I would say
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The class divide in Silicon Valley(weeklystandard.com)
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
Twitter 2007: Who wants to post status messages which are limited to 140 characters Twitter 2010: Who wants to invest in a company which limits status messages to 140 characters Twitter 2013: Who thinks $26/share is a viable price for
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
"The Score takes Care of Itself" - Bill Walsh Jack Dorsey talked about it in Startup School and I highly recommend it as well.
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Compare all of the world's constitutions(constituteproject.org)
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Show HN: Acronym makes engineered apparel to be worn multiple ways(acrnm.com)
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NASA releases images of Pakistan's Earthquake island(rt.com)
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Educated and Poor(medium.com)
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
On Being Free by Frithjof Bergmann changed my perspective on what work should be for an individual in a society. It's not very analytically heavy and is definitely a great read. I also met him and what he is doing around the world is p
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I am writing this in NY while having discussed this article with multiple teachers and principals at a charter school. Here are some facts: The US spends over $600 billion on the K-12 education system. Just around 0.46% of that entire budge
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
Government subsidies towards student loans is a well known fact. Just like government subsidized the cost of borrowing for mortgages, so has it inculcated a perverse system of college financing. Evidence of this can be seen in the largest i
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
The worst part of this thing is that students loans do not need to be that high because college costs should not be that high. Student loans are artificially high because of two reasons: 1. Government subsidies 2. Increasing college costs G

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