Game teaches kids programming basics without screens

Each episode in the series runs about 11 minutes and focuses on key concepts including analysis, combination, abstraction, ...
Comicbook.com

29 Years Ago, Cartoon Network Changed Forever by Delivering Its Best Programming Block of All-Time

29 years ago today, Cartoon Network was changed forever with the debut of its best programming block, and the anime world has never been the same since. In the 1990s and 2000s, Cartoon Network was the ...
CBC.ca

Block lays off 4,000 workers citing AI. But how much does AI actually have to do with it?

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Jack Dorsey, CEO of ...
CNBC

Block cuts about half its workforce — how to move forward after a mass layoff, career experts say

Block said Thursday it is laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. Layoff announcements among U.S. employers in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, ...
CNBC

Opinion: Block's layoffs might just be the biggest story of a tumultuous week. Here's why

Block, Jack Dorsey's payments company, will cut 4,000 of its 10,000 workers as it embraces AI. CNBC's Steve Sedgwick says it's "time we got better answers" to questions about what jobs the technology ...
MarketWatch

Block plans to lay off nearly half its staff in ‘deliberate and bold’ embrace of AI

Block, the parent company of Square and the Cash App, is conducting a major reorganization in the age of artificial intelligence, and investors are rewarding the move. The payment-technology company ...
CNN

Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey thinks ...
Fast Company

Block insiders talk about how Jack Dorsey turned Square into a multidimensional financial services giant

On November 19, Block Inc. held its first Investor Day in three years. Jack Dorsey, the company’s cofounder, chief executive, and “Block Head,” took to the stage and summarily posed what many ...
Entrepreneur

This Former Google Engineer Reveals the One Thing to Focus On When Building a Product — and It’s Not ‘Perfect Code’

Dhanji Prasanna is the Chief Technical Officer of fintech company Block, which runs Cash App and Afterpay. On a podcast, Prasanna said that engineers should focus on purpose over perfect code. Block ...
TheServerSide

A JavaScript functional programming basic tutorial

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...
TheServerSide

Understanding the 7 principles of functional programming

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...