Parents have a reasonable concern about how home education will translate their children into adults with marketable skills. Since World War II and the GI Bill, we’ve been programmed to believe that government-accredited institutions are the way into the American workforce. Unfortunately, government organizes all that it does in the same chaotic manner it organizes the armed forces. Schools, from kindergarten to grad school are designed to produce workers accustomed to taking orders.
Technology has now given us more alternate paths to meaningful and productive lives than ever before.
The following resources are invaluable for those who worry about going tens of thousands of dollars in debt to secure a place in the workforce.
I’m a little unclear as to where this information originated, so I’ve included a couple links with similar text.
https://www.opportunitiesforyouth.org/2021/09/07/learn-to-code-and-get-a-job-in-tech
Jobs paying $75.00 per hour and salaries of over $185,000 a year are going unfilled due to a lack of skilled tech workers.
by Philip Green
To all of the young people that follow my Page, I have two imperative bits of advice for you. Listen to me and listen good, please.
- Learn to code. Get a job in tech.
- Learn to create apps. Own the tech.
- Philip Green
Now get out there and Live your Best Life!
Get up out of poverty! Read More Books. Take free online courses. Join YearUp!
EdX.org
Coursera.org
YearUp.org
Scratch, the free Interactive coding tutorial
https://scratch.mit.edu
Learn to code interactively, for free.
Take free courses from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Wharton B-School…free!
Code Academy
Khan Academy
http://www.codecademy.com/
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
coursera.org
EdX.org
Udacity.com
Novoed.com
Free Math & Computer Programming Courses
YesWeCode.org
http://www.blackgirlscode.com
Black Hedge Fund Group Code + App Development Resources
Code.org
36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming
http://java.dzone.com/news/36-resources-help-you-teach
MIT App Inventor tutorial to develop mobile apps on Android phones.
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/hour-of-code.html
Scratch – A simple visual programming language
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Windows Apps
http://developer.android.com/index.html
Apple iOS Developer Program
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/
Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Code Academy
https://www.codecademy.com/
Places Where Women Can Learn to Code
http://learntocodewith.me/posts/13-places-women-learn-code/
2019, Black Hedge Fund Group – The Black Hedge Fund Group
The Facebook post where I found this: https://www.facebook.com/100000974803905/posts/6048281285214305/
