Archive for Coding

Grechen Huebner: Kodable

Grechen Huebner’s entrepreneurial journey started when she first arrived at college as a communications major. She was not very skilled in technology coming in. Knowing that this would be a hinderance in her future career, Grechen began to surround herself with all things tech and design. Because she did this, she was able to teach herself web design. Having this skill allowed her to get multiple internships in college. Grechen wished she had learned web design much earlier in life and wanted to provide a way for others to do it.

This led Grechen to start Kodable. She developed Kodable with her co-founder Jon Mattingly in 2012, while they were still in college. Their goal was to be able to teach kids how to effectively code at a young age. Kodable has grown incredibly fast and is used in every developed country in the world to teach tens of millions of kids. Grechen is always communicating with her teams and her costumers to create the best experience for the students using her resources.  Grechen has been able to use her gifts she learned in college to impact so many people. She is giving other kids the opportunity she wished she could have had.

Programming for Kids | Kodable

Avi Schiffmann – Self-Taught Website Developer

No one could have predicted that there would be a need for his website, but now it has become an important website during the COVID-19 era. 

Avi Schiffmann is a 19-year-old high school student in Washington State, USA. He gained a spotlight in 2020 because of a website he developed on his own to track COVID-19 cases throughout the world. Just a few months later, Avi’s website was getting 30 million visitors each day, which added up to over 600 million visitors. 

When he was 17 years old, Avi was looking online for the COVID-19 case numbers online and all he could find was a slightly sketchy website in Chinese that he couldn’t understand. Because of this, Avi decided to create his own website which could display COVID-19 information in an unbiased and user-friendly way. With his experience with coding and website development that he taught himself, Avi was able to build the website and code it himself. 

The website was released in January 2020 and made it possible for millions of families to stay up to date on the condition of the world during those difficult times. 

The website shows a number of different types of numbers, including total confirmed cases, total of deaths, total recovered, and total vaccinated. The website also shows cases in each country and has a map to show data per country. The website is continually updated and shows accurate data. 

 

Click here to visit the website.