Mykalin Jones

Irish is a phonetically rich language with significant variation in pronunciation between the three major dialects. While it would likely be redundant to attempt to capture every minor dialect within these three recognized groups, there is potentially significant variations that may be...

Learning new skills as an adult can be tricky. Boot camps and courses can be helpful, but many still struggle to land a job. This talk will go over ways to support adults looking for a new career with Python and the results of an unconventional group class setup I've been experimenting with.

Speakers: Mykalin Jones, Vishal Vatsa In this talk we will talk about how Regex's have gotten a bad wrap over the year and how this powerful tool is not being used appropriately. We will define Regex while providing some use cases, explore the history of Regex, from Kleene star, a brief mention...

As a result of a modern wave of revival efforts both at home and abroad, the Irish language has a number of comprehensive and up-to-date online learning tools, databases, and dictionaries. However, there was no way for Irish learners or users to search for specific substrings, despite their...

Have you ever tried to teach your children programming? Do you have friends trying to learn as an adult? Are you an adult career-switcher? With so many resources for people getting started in programming, the options can be overwhelming. People often are left to wonder how and when to get...

We will explore the latest research on how children gain programming knowledge, how to keep them interested and excited, and how this might inform the way we support adult newcomers to programming.