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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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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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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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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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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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Latest Startup Jobs – 15 Apr 2010
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