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jkeesh commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jkeesh · 12 years ago

CodeHS: Software Engineer in San Francisco

CodeHS is a site that helps teach computer science to beginners with a focus on working with high schools. We work with students and schools all over the US and all over the world. Make a big impact on a small team in an exciting space.

See more at http://codehs.com/jobs

We are a company with a social mission, and we believe that we can help make computer science more fun and accessible to high school students. If you are a programmer, but also consider yourself a teacher--or if you love coming up with creative ways to explain things--or if you want to work on a meaningful project instead of programming widgets at the widget factory--then send us an email. You can email me at jkeesh@codehs.com

We're a small team of 6 with funding and a business model and soon to be a lot bigger. We have a monthly team hackathon (and recently had one for 150 students and teachers at Facebook http://facebook.com/codehs ), and are always thinking of ways to make working more fun.

See what students and teachers say about CodeHS: http://codehs.com/testimonials

How We Start Teaching:

We start teaching programming with "Karel the Dog," a dog that lives in a grid world and only knows four commands: move, turnLeft, putBall and takeBall. We use karel to teach that computer science is about problem solving. We start in JavaScript, but use a thin teaching library because we believe in teaching concepts over syntax.

Try it out and let us know what you think at codehs.com.

Our site is built in python, django, JavaScript, and we're on ec2.

CodeHS was recently a winner at NBC's Education Nation and has been featured on the Today Show and a number of other places.

Thanks! Jeremy

http://blog.codehs.com/

jkeesh commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jkeesh · 12 years ago

CodeHS: Software Engineer in San Francisco

CodeHS is a site that helps teach computer science to beginners with a focus on working with high schools. We work with students and schools all over the US and all over the world. Make a big impact on a small team in an exciting space.

See more at http://codehs.com/jobs

We are a company with a social mission, and we believe that we can help make computer science more fun and accessible to high school students. If you are a programmer, but also consider yourself a teacher--or if you love coming up with creative ways to explain things--or if you want to work on a meaningful project instead of programming widgets at the widget factory--then send us an email. You can email me at jkeesh@codehs.com

We're a small team of 4 with funding and a business model and soon to be a lot bigger. We have a monthly team hackathon (and recently had one for 150 students and teachers at Facebook http://facebook.com/codehs ), and are always thinking of ways to make working more fun.

See what students and teachers say about CodeHS: http://codehs.com/testimonials

How We Start Teaching:

We start teaching programming with "Karel the Dog," a dog that lives in a grid world and only knows four commands: move, turnLeft, putBall and takeBall. We use karel to teach that computer science is about problem solving. We start in JavaScript, but use a thin teaching library because we believe in teaching concepts over syntax.

Try it out and let us know what you think at codehs.com.

Our site is built in python, django, JavaScript, and we're on ec2.

CodeHS was recently a winner at NBC's Education Nation and has been featured on the Today Show and a number of other places.

Thanks, and happy new year! Jeremy

http://blog.codehs.com/

jkeesh commented on Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS togetherjs.com... · Posted by u/pie

jkeesh · 12 years ago

This looks fantastic. I just have a question for the author (+ Mozilla). Since this is a hosted service, I'm a bit reluctant to integrate it, because I'm not sure what we should expect from Mozilla on this project. Is this a cool open source project that will get support for a little and then fade away? Is this something that a team is really behind and is going to continue to support and extend? Is it expected that most people will just host their own version? (doesnt seem that hard to do, but there is a lot of appeal in not managing the server for this at all)

If this was from a startup I would expect a free trial and then a pricing page that told me what happened if I had X # of users or Y # of requests, but without that info, it seems there is a lot of missing information. Does Mozilla just plan to keep it hosted indefinitely? Or how do you plan to handle users of different sizes? Our use case now is small, but in choosing to go with this tool (vs. Firebase or something else), the switching costs down the road are relevant.

I'm planning to try it out in a small test either way, I'm just curious about more details on the mozilla-hosted version.

jkeesh commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jkeesh · 12 years ago

CodeHS is hiring in San Francisco, CA!

CodeHS is the best way for beginners to learn how to program. We focus on working with schools, and work with hundreds of schools and thousands of students all over the world. CodeHS focuses on making online education about the community, as you work through the program, you get help from real people.

http://codehs.com/jobs

===== Head of Sales, Business Development ===== Description We’re looking for someone to run our sales efforts. You’ll be in charge of keeping on top of our pipeline, emailing and calling teachers and principals, and closing deals. You should be passionate about education and excited about helping educate students in computer science all over the world.

Responsibilities Respond to inquiries from teachers, principals, and superintendents Qualify leads and prioritize your time Work with a team and individually Explain the features and benefits of CodeHS

===== Tutor Experience/Community Manager ===== Description CodeHS has a global network of tutors helping students learn to program all over the world. You will be in charge of managing the tutors and tutor recruitment process, helping maintain tutor quality, and making the tutoring experience fun and rewarding.

Programming experience required, or ability and desire to pick up programming quickly!

Responsibilities Manage current tutors on site Review tutor performance Find College CS Majors to hire as remote tutors Communicate between students, schools, and tutors to see how tutor feedback is working

===== Lead Content/Curriculum Developer ===== Description CodeHS is always looking to expand and improve our content. Help lead efforts to teach new concepts, new languages, and new tools to students all over the world. Significant programming epxerience required, and experience teaching computer science at the high school or college level is a signifiant bonus.

Details of Role Degree in computer science Excited about learning and teaching programming Wants to be creative about making learning progamming fun and engaging Taught computer science at high school or college level, or significant experience creating learning materials or tutorials

===== Short Term Sales Job ===== Description

This job pays hourly. Help us sell CodeHS to schools. Respond to inquiries from teachers, principals, and superintendents Qualify leads and prioritize your time Work with a team and individually Explain the features and benefits of CodeHS

===== CodeHS Tutor ===== PART TIME Description Help out students all over the world who are learning to program. You will be a member of the CodeHS tutoring community, and help answer questions, give feedback, and do grading. This job is open to college computer science students, and in limited cases high school students or other programmers.

Details of Role Current computer science student at a university Fluent in English Excited about learning and teaching programming Get paid to help others Flexible hours, remote working

jkeesh commented on Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked slashdot.org/firehose.pl?... · Posted by u/DiabloD3

jkeesh · 12 years ago

I recently sent an email to linode support, and got a very murky response. I used my debit card on linode, and it was recently used on transactions I didn't make in random parts of the world that I'm not in, so I had to cancel it. My first guess was that it was linode, and all of the posts here make it more likely.

Essentially: I am a linode customer. My cc details were somehow leaked. Adds a data point here.

jkeesh commented on Schema Migrations for Django kickstarter.com/projects/... · Posted by u/pykello

jkeesh · 12 years ago

Andrew--

We use Django and South in our projects, and really appreciate the work you have done. I just contributed, and am excited about this project.

My one suggestion/request: Please make it an emphasis to create awesome documentation. I am familiar with South now at this point but often find myself wishing more use cases and more examples were documented. I can usually "figure it out," but great documentation saves everyone time. This seems like a great project, so make the documentation great too!