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LaunchCode
LaunchCode, headquartered in St. Louis Missouri, is a Non-profit organization that helps people enter the technology field by providing free and accessible education, training, and paid apprenticeship placements. Its courses and programs include: *LC101 is LaunchCode's part-time evening flagship course. In a classroom with mentoring from instructors, teaching fellows and local developers, students learn programming concepts in JavaScript before moving on to a skill track focused on either Java or C#. * Women+ (formerly CoderGirl): Is LaunchCode's education program for everyone who identifies as female, students choose one of seven 24- or 45-week specialized skill tracks that lead to an apprenticeship job program. * Immersive CodeCamp is a 14-week, full-time course taking a deep dive into in-demand technologies and skills. * Liftoff is a career readiness and project course for pre-apprenticeship. * Discovery is a free, self-paced online program developed to introduce people to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McKelvey
James Morgan McKelvey Jr. is an American billionaire businessman, who is the co-founder of Block, Inc. McKelvey was appointed as an independent director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in January 2017. As of November 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$4 billion. Early life James Morgan McKelvey Jr. was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and is an alumnus of Ladue Horton Watkins High School. He wrote and published a Handbook on UCSD Pascal and Apple Pascal in 1986. After graduation from Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey worked as a contractor for IBM in Los Angeles and in St. Louis. At the same time, he had jobs as a glassblowing instructor and founded Disconcepts, a CD cabinet manufacturing company. Career Third Degree Glass Factory In 2000, after giving a glassblowing demonstration at WUSTL, McKelvey met Doug Auer. In 2002 they founded Third Degree Glass Factory in St. Louis, a glass art studio and gallery which also provides space for privat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Carnahan
Robin Colleen Carnahan (born August 4, 1961) is an American businesswoman, lawyer, and politician, who previously served as the Missouri Secretary of State and currently serves as the Administrator of General Services in the Biden administration. She is the daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan. In 2010, she was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Republican Senator Kit Bond. She was then a senior advisor at the global strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group. In 2013, Carnahan was named a fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. In February 2016, she joined the General Services Administration as the director of the state and local practice at 18F, a role she held until January 2020. She then became a fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University. On April 6, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to serve as the administrator of the General Services Administration. Her nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Programming
Computer programming is the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program. Programming involves tasks such as analysis, generating algorithms, profiling algorithms' accuracy and resource consumption, and the implementation of algorithms (usually in a chosen programming language, commonly referred to as coding). The source code of a program is written in one or more languages that are intelligible to programmers, rather than machine code, which is directly executed by the central processing unit. The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate the performance of a task (which can be as complex as an operating system) on a computer, often for solving a given problem. Proficient programming thus usually requires expertise in several different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
