“We’re massively going for the expansion into this multi-cloud world,” says Björn Goerke, SAP CTO & President of the SAP Cloud Platform. “We strongly believe that the world will remain hybrid for a number of years and we’re going in that same direction with the SAP Cloud Platform.”
Facebook, Google Ask Congress to Make Computer Science a K-12 Priority
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more than a dozen other advocacy groups have sent a letter to the Chairman and ranking members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the House Education and the Workforce Committee. The letter…
Grand Theft Auto Maker Trying to Kill BBC Movie About the Game’s Tumultuous Inception
When the BBC announced that it was developing a feature-length film based on the making of the popular gaming franchise Grand Theft Auto, most assumed that it was at least OK’ed by the game’s creators – if not blessed by.…
Grand Theft Auto ‘Making-Of’ Movie Headed to BBC
As part of the ‘Make It Digital’ initiative, which aims to “inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology,” the BBC is developing a feature-length program based on the making of the popular gaming franchise…
Google Opens Registration For 10th Annual Global Code Jam
Can you code? Do you like money? If so, you might be interested in Google’s latest Global Code Jam. Google announced that registration is now open for the 10th annual Global Code Jam that begins next month. The event will…
Zuckerberg, Gates, Dorsey, and More Advocate for More Programmers
A new campaign looks to teach people about a “superpower” that is only being taught in about 10% of U.S. schools. We’re talking about programming, and an array of high-profile tech figures and celebrities are throwing their support behind the…
Programmers Are The Artists Of A New Era
There’s a general stereotype that describes programmers as nothing more than pale introverts who sit in front a computer all day typing strings of code. It wasn’t exactly accurate, but most programmers really did just type code all day. Now…
Mozilla Reveals its ‘Webmaker’ Education Initiative
Today Mozilla launched a new program it is calling “Mozilla Webmaker” to promote more widespread knowledge about how the internet works and how to help create it. Mozilla’s stated goal is to “help millions of people move from using the…
$100K Raised by Code Hero Developers Through Kickstarter
Coding is not fun for most people, and one of the most frustrating parts of coding is learning how to do it! Several sites such as Code Academy try to teach people in a fairly simple way, but Primer Labs…