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End of the Road
Read more: End of the RoadAfter a decade of advocating for the developer community, the time has come to wind down the Developers Alliance. For some of you, this may come as a shock. As…
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Do Kids Want to Code? Let’s Ask.
Read more: Do Kids Want to Code? Let’s Ask.It’s easy to highlight all of the positive reasons why we should be teaching kids to code, but what about the kids themselves? Do they want to code? Do they feel like digital literacy is a relevant, worthwhile endeavor?
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Apps Alliance Launches Troll Fighter Campaign for Patent Reform to Give Small Businesses and Innovators a Voice in DC
Read more: Apps Alliance Launches Troll Fighter Campaign for Patent Reform to Give Small Businesses and Innovators a Voice in DCMarch 16, 2015 – The Application Developers Alliance has launched a multimedia and campaign in Washington D.C. and targeted states calling for comprehensive patent reform. The Troll Fighter campaign includes digital, print and Pandora advertising that features small business owners, innovators and app developers that have been targeted by patent trolls.
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Turtles in Space: Beyond learning to code
Read more: Turtles in Space: Beyond learning to codeThis guest blog post is part of the Application Developers Alliance “Developing for Good: Kids Who Code” campaign. In this article, I outline a goal to create an Open (in Creative commons) modelling system for education that ties Systems modelling to code within a specific context (in this case, space exploration).
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Famigo on the Value of Coding Education
Read more: Famigo on the Value of Coding Education“Mobile web is our Wild West; it’s our frontier,” says Matt McDonnell of Famigo. Today’s children are experiencing a very different Internet than the children of the last few decades. With the ongoing evolution of the Internet, having working knowledge of how devices function may help children be prepared for a more connected world.
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Developing for Good: Kids Who Code
Read more: Developing for Good: Kids Who CodeIn December of 2014, a four year old girl submitted a change to the Linux kernel that was actually accepted into the code. Although it’s easy to get caught up in struggles within the app ecosystem and obstacles faced by developers, this bit of news left the Application Developers Alliance inspired to discuss and contribute to the…
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Apps Alliance Urges Legislative Action on Demand Letters to Protect Startups and App Developers from Patent Trolls
Read more: Apps Alliance Urges Legislative Action on Demand Letters to Protect Startups and App Developers from Patent TrollsWashington, D.C. – The Application Developers Alliance today called on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade to swiftly enact legislation to prohibit a favored weapon America’s patent trolls – fraudulent demand letters that are intentionally vague, deceptive, overbroad or baseless.
