Code club mentoring experiences
A bunch of Futuriceans taught programming to school children on weekly code club sessions. We are sharing the teaching material that we prepared.
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Asking designers: to code or not to code
Believe it or not, coding was a hot topic at Interactions 12 , the Interaction Design conference of the year. Ryan Betts talked about code…
A story about design decisions and legacy code
Back in late 2011 - early 2012, my project’s development team was taking the first concrete steps in one of our largest projects so far. We w…
MillenniumX Code School
MillenniumX When 2016-05-22 10:15 2016-05-22 16:00 Where Kaapelitehdas Helsinki Finland Website http://taf.fi/tapahtuma…
Codeschule: Taking a Finnish idea to Germany
Who says kids only stare at screens? We let them explore, write code, and have heaps of fun.
Designing a festival app – a hackathon experience
--editor's note-- Two weeks ago we organized a hackathon with a goal of making the best open source festival app so that any festival can h…
Photoshop, we need to talk
As you very well know, Adobe Photoshop, I love you. I love you to the extent that you feel like an integral part of my professional self. Lik…
Tech Pick of the Week: Rx for .NET and RxJava for Android
There are plenty of resources about how Rx (Reactive Extensions) can be used to make handling of streams of data much easier, but very little…
Introducing children to the joy of programming
When I heard there was going to be a code school session for children at Futurice, it was clear I wanted to participate with my daughter Til…
Tech Pick of the Week: AngularJS
You’ve probably heard about AngularJS, right? It’s hard not to run into it if you do web front-end development, especially when building rich…
Programmer proverbs
To be a programmer is to learn relentlessly. A short and deep collection of advices.
Tech Pick of the Week: BEM
Let’s face it. In large projects, CSS is a mess. The larger the project, the bigger the mess. There seems to be no way to avoid it – it just…
Code school for adults
I believe everybody can code if they want to. That’s why we at Futurice decided to arrange a code school for adults, more precisely for our non-coding employees.
Code Club for Teachers - Tampere
Code Club for Teachers When 2017-02-22 17:00 2017-02-22 19:00 Where Kelloportinkatu 1 D 33100 Tampere Finland Website h…
Tech Pick of the Week: Clojure
Clojure is a functional, dynamic programming language which is getting more and more popular by challenging many "best practices" while keep…
Introduction to Serverless
By this stage, “serverless” services, otherwise known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), have hit the mainstream. If you have not heard about…
The Coding Game. Engaging pupils with coding, design & sales
Coding is much fun to learn, especially when combined with design and business and made into a team competition.
Code Camp '15 - Conquering the Galaxy
Futurice's robot scientists headed into the depths of the Helsinki archipelago to do battle for the mastery of the I/O system.
Code Camp '16 - Space Art
The topic of our Code Camp last May was artificial intelligence. After a galactic battle within our internally developed game, Space Tyckiti…
Berlin screening of "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap"
The field of programming is plagued by a gender gap. "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap" takes a serious look at this problem and how we can fix it.
Tampere screening of "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap"
The field of programming is plagued by a gender gap. "CODE -Debugging the Gender Gap" takes a serious look at this problem and how we can fix it.
Stockholm screening of "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap"
The field of programming is plagued by a gender gap. "CODE -Debugging the Gender Gap" takes a serious look at this problem and how we can fix it.
Self-explanatory code is good code, isn't it?
Is self-explanatory code easy to maintain and refactor? How to write good documentation?
Women who code
Do you identify as a woman? Do you code? You are cordially invited to apply for working at Futurice!
Women who code
Do you identify as a woman? Do you code? You are cordially invited to apply for working at Futurice!
Coding postures
While taking some photos from around the office, I decided to snap a few pictures of people tapping away at their computers. Here's the resul…
Our first code camp – definitely worth it
On a warm May Thursday afternoon, 27 Futurice people hopped on a bus that soon started making its way towards Porvoo, to the east of Helsinki…
Sharing at the Futurice code camp
At the Futurice Code Camp , we wanted to motivate people to share what they learn. We urged the campers to share code examples, which earned…
Women who code
Do you identify as a woman? Do you code? You are cordially invited to apply for work at Futurice! We have a problem in the IT industry. The…
5 important things kids learn from coding (other than coding)
We go to schools and help teachers get excited about programming and kids do fun stuff.
Space... what? Bot battling your way to Berlin
Code bots, break things. Futurice tours Europe with Space Tyckiting, looking for the best coders in Tampere, Helsinki, Oulu, Turku, London, Stockholm and Berlin.
SPIME2015
An annual event for Industrial Internet of Things developers and non-coding IoT enthusiasts.
Generic Hackathon
Generic Hackathon is a grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve open-source libraries, tools, and infrastructure.
Android development has its own Swift
Xtend is modern multi-paradigm language that compiles to Java source code, ideal for Android development, specially when combined with RxJava.
Rapid Data Science with Veikkaus dcontext & Spark
Veikkaus dcontext is a tool for accelerating data science effort in JVM by using dynamic class loading. dcontext can reload modified code, while keeping JVMs, SparkContexts and the data sets alive in the computer's or cluster's heap. This can deliver much faster iteration cycle and greatly increased productivity, when dealing with lots of data.
Full-stack Developer
Whether it's JavaScript frameworks, continuous integration, test automation, deployment frameworks or NoSQL databases - web is your thing! You can position yourself in frontend, backend or somewhere in between. It's not just about getting the data to flow from the database to the user's screen, it's about getting to know the technologies, understanding the layers and finally delivering code to production.
Koodikoulu - Tampere
We are introducing children to the joy of programming. The code school is sponsored by the Spice Program - Futurice's social responsibility program.
Koodikoulu - Helsinki
We are introducing children to the joy of programming. The code school is sponsored by the Spice Program - Futurice's social responsibility program.
Koodikoulu - Helsinki
We are introducing children to the joy of programming. The code school is sponsored by the Spice Program - Futurice's social responsibility program.
Hacks/Hackers Helsinki
Talking about code school for kids (koodikoulu in Finnish) in Hacks/Hackers Helsinki meet up. This meetup will be in Finnish.
HWO2014: the speed of the electric sheep
Did you know that the best opportunity for having fun with AI programming and wasting two weeks of your time comes from Finland? Reaktor and…
Space Tyckiting in 10 tweets
A spring full of hackathons. The story told tweet by tweet.
Underlining gender in IT
To honour the international women's day on March 8th we asked some of our women to write down their thoughts about working in an IT company.…
Designing and building apps for four platforms in 50 hours
A couple of weeks ago, together with Restaurant Day volunteers, we organized a weekend-long camp at our Helsinki office. Our goal was to cre…