Coursera announced job cuts on July 6, eight weeks after its merger with Udemy closed. The company didn’t say how many people were affected. The only number it gave was a cost, $8 million to $11 million. After digging around California’s website, I found that 59 people were laid off: 31 from Coursera’s Mountain View headquarters, and 28 from Udemy’s office in San Francisco. California only requires these notices for jobs in the state, so that isn’t the whole number. Based on what the two compa

If you’re interested in learning the guitar, there’s a course for you. In this guide to the best guitar courses, there are several beginner courses to choose from, plus some specific styles to explore if you already know the basics. The guitar is a popular and versatile musical instrument. It’s portable (especially the acoustic guitar), and you can play melodies or strumming both solo and in a band. It lends itself beautifully to many musical styles, from flamenco to classical, jazz, blues, fol

Are you new to programming or do you know a beginner programmer? Have you looked at pages of code and thought it’s just too hard to even try to learn programming? There is an easy way: welcome to the world of Scratch! Created in 2007 by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, Scratch was designed as an easy, fun introduction to programming for children. But you don’t need to be a child to appreciate Scratch. In CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch, I enjoyed personalizing the cartoon