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Latest Startup Jobs – 15 Apr 2010
If you are reading SGEntrepreneurs, you are probably already partial to startups, perhaps having founded one yourself or are working in one. If not, why not consider joining a dynamic startup to see...
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Learn How To Be An Entrepreneur With Kauffman FastTrac
Good news for entrepreneurs in Asia. We just a got a note from the folks at Infocommn Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) that Kauffman FastTrac will be here in Singapore from this July to August....
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Plenty of Places to Learn Programming Online. So Why Should You Start?
If you’ve been on Twitter over the past few days, you might have seen more than a few people declaring that in 2012 they will learn code with Code Academy. This Code Year initiative looks to be a...
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10 Sites to Help You Learn Python for FREE
Elisha Tan is the Founder of Learnemy, a web application that finds you instructors for anything you want to learn. Always wanted to build a web application but didn’t know where to start learning? I...
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Startup Grepsr Wants to Make Data Collection Easy
Grepsr is one of the more intriguing startups I’ve come across in a while. It is a data extraction and web crawling service which you can use if you need to automate data collection from places on the...
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As Asian Interest in Big Data Grows, Revolution Analytics Opens Office in...
Revolution Analytics, a commercial software and services provider for statistical computing (specifically the open source R programming language), recently announced the opening of an office in...
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Singpath Mobile: An iPad app for learning Python and Java
If you’re a Python or Java beginner, Singpath Mobile might just be your ticket to hackerdom. The iPad app, developed as a Final Year Project by a team from the Singapore Management University, lets...
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Japanese Programmer Community ‘Qiita’ Passes 10,000 Users
Qiita, an online programmer community for programmers in Japan, has just surpassed the 10,000 registered user milestone. Qiita was created by Increments Inc., and since it was initially launched back...
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MOOCs Won’t Replace Traditional Education. But They Don’t Have To
Image: Learni.st One of the bigger technology stories of the past year has been the emergence of MOOCs, or massive open online courses. Platforms like Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy offer courses on a...
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Getting Weird Server Hits from China? It May Not Be Hackers…
Bob. Today’s Register brings us an amusing story that also has a bit of a moral to it: although it can be easy to blame Chinese hackers for everything, sometimes the answer to your tech mystery is...
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China Blocks Social Coding Site Github
Sad Octocat is sad… Chinese developers are waking up to a little bad news this morning, as it looks like social coding platform Github has been blocked in China, according to the folks over on GigaOm....
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Social Coding Site Github Unblocked and Accessible Again in China
It was just two days ago that my colleague reported on how the social coding site Github had become blocked in China. But today we notice that it is accessible again within the country on two...
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Eclipse Day Comes to China, Local Developers Hit a Language Barrier
If you’re not a programmer, there’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of the Eclipse IDE. That’s okay. Neither had I. Suffice to say, Eclipse is an open source project used by millions of...
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Should non-technical founders learn how to code?
Elisha Tan is the founder of Learnemy, a web application that finds you instructors for anything you want to learn. Find her on Twitter as @elishatan. Since launching Learnemy last April, I have seen...
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Newbie programming courses in Singapore to whet your appetite
As someone learning Ruby on Rails myself, I can tell you that while the plethora of online lessons offered by Codecademy, Code School, Coursera and more are great, nothing beats sitting down together...
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Wanbiancheng can teach everyone in China how to make an app in 2 hours
Even though most of us don’t consider ourselves coders nor programmers, we could probably all benefit from a little more knowledge about the code behind our software. One of the biggest obstacles is...
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Hong Kong’s school IT lessons turn students into secretaries, but Code Club...
“Currently, ICT lessons in primary and secondary schools teach MS Office programs as default. Essentially they’re teaching children how to be secretaries.” That’s how computer classes are taught in...
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How LifeisTech is breathing tech into students’ lives
Founded by Mizuno Yusuke, LifeisTech is a Tokyo-based company that teaches programming to junior high students. No, it isn’t like Codeacademy or other platforms that teach you coding online. In a...
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Nitrous.IO raises $6.7 million to unchain programmers from their laptops
Nitrous.IO co-founders (from left): Andrew Solimine, Arun Thampi, and Peter Kim. Nitrous.IO, a Singapore and Silicon Valley-based startup that wants to eliminate the hassle of setting up a computer for...
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Make your first game, part I: Windows-only edition
If you’ve played games for any portion of your life, I wager you are kicking around a few ideas that you’d like to gift the world. Fortunately, advanced (in some cases any) programming knowledge is no...
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Make your first game, part II: cross-platform and iPad tools.
In part I we took a look at a few tools available for PC users who want to experiment with making games of their own. Today we look at tools available for anyone running a non-Windows machine, or even...
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Learning to code? I did it for 2 years – here’s what I learned
I’ve never sworn so much in my entire life. I stared at a computer screen for hours, trying to fix a bug in my app. The cause of the error eluded me, nudging me into a cycle of angst, self-loathing,...
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This crowdsourced site wants to help you discover the best programming...
Programming tutorials have been around on the web from the very early days of the internet. New ones keep coming out all the time because the technology evolves so fast and creates new possibilities....
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A glimpse into the coder’s world, courtesy of Tech in Asia’s engineering team
As someone who has always loved technology but approached it strictly from a writer’s point of view, coding is nothing short of sorcery for me. So it’s good that, at Tech in Asia, we have some pretty...
View ArticleMedia goes gaga over study showing women code better than men. The truth’s...
The media went wild with a study claiming that women are better coders than men. The truth is more nuanced than that.
View ArticleHe led engineers at Facebook, Yahoo, Airbnb. Here are the lessons he learned.
The VP of engineering at Airbnb got into programming by becoming a receptionist. Then he worked his way up.
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View ArticleHow Gojek’s early team managed 1 million drivers with 12 engineers
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View ArticleIndonesian coding bootcamp Hacktiv8 nets $3m in East Ventures-led round
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View Article12-year-old programmer tackles Apple’s first student coding contest
The Swift Student Challenge is a virtual competition designed to help kids learn how to code using Apple’s five-year-old Swift programming language.
View ArticleInit 6 is making an early bet on this Indonesian coding test firm
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