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Mercury is a great find for me as it solves UI/UX design & usability concerns for my Python automation projects for non-techninal users.

There are a couple "frameworks".

Situation>Problem>question>Answer

There is an SPQA for both YOU and your target audience.

What's the problem? Why is it hard? What's the solution? In one sentence, this is your main idea.

Recipe for a five paragraph essay or blog post:

Paragraph 1 1. Main idea 2-4. Supporting points 5. Conclusion

Paragraph 2-4 Reiterate supporting points + issue, cause, solution(s) and supporting points

Paragraph 5 Conclusion + supporting points Transition: New ideas, concepts, studies to conduct or angles

- Developed bias detection apps using Google Machine Learning Natural Language Processing

- Launched services built with Python

- Learned more about computer science principles including data structures and algorithms to clean up/speed up code

- Built social media apps that leveraged REST APIs and RSS

Interview/Comedy: We Got the Jazz gotthejazz.com

EconTalk econtalk.org

So Money by FARNOOSH farnoosh.tv

EconTalk is awesome.

A friend's kid loves Minecraft. He specifically asked me to teach him how to code so that he could eventually host his own Minecraft server. I started with a couple different approaches including Kahn Academy kid-coding videos, basics and WYSIWYG HTML examples. The kid didn't really want to "code" as much as he wanted to see concrete outcomes. One of the outcomes was a blog or forum to interact with his Minecraft friends.

The moral of this story is that it helps to focus on the interest of the children you are teaching, identify desired outcomes that will excite them and deliver the outcomes while secretly teaching them coding and computer science basics. It's like hiding the dog's pill.

The closest thing right now is Cornell's Legal Information Institute--https://www.law.cornell.edu. There is also the same problem with academic journals--Lexis Nexis has asearchable database with cases for a pretty penny. Also, pacer.gov enables users to access cases and dockets but the structure and "per page" cost make it difficult to be a useful search engine.

I've argued a couple cases in district court (and one case is on the docket of the Supreme Court) and I've used a mix of law school textbooks, Scotusblog.com, Cornell's Legal Information Institute and lawyer's blogs to start background research.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docketfil...

Web and email hosting. Designed sites in 2015, hosted on Google Cloud and continued to take in monthly web and email hosting income in 2016.

I attended a Washington Post Millennial startup event (inGENuitY) last year that featured several companies like this. http://wapo.st/1TvsnAv

Cosign. I live in the Washington, DC area. I hired a Web Dev from Boulder, CO because he had Udacity training and a impressive portfolio of projects. The projects showed me that he loved to build things. I also noticed that he had a ton of comments on Youtube, Stackoverflow, and Github showing that he was actively learning more about new web frameworks.

This is smart. Start by developing the smallest and most essential solution to a problem, get feedback, and incrementally improve the solution.

I really LOVE this concept. I think it is much needed. I've seen studies of entire customer service departments staffed by disabled individuals who showed extreme patience and empathy with customers resulting in higher satisfaction.

One consideration to improve the user experience is to make sure that the website is Section 508 Compliant (www.section508.gov) so that it is easier to access for individuals with hearing and visual disabilities.