LeoLearnsToCode2Dec2013

 

Also, from UPDATED: Finding the unjustly homeless, and teaching them to code (Part I).

The idea is simple. Without disrespecting him, I will offer two options:

  1. I will come back tomorrow and give you $100 in cash.
  2. I will come back tomorrow and give you three JavaScript books, (beginner-advanced-expert) and a super cheap basic laptop. I will then come an hour early from work each day—when he feels prepared—and teach him to code.

 

Part II: UPDATED: Money < Education

 

Leo (left) Patrick(RIGHT)?—?NYC

 “’Leo’ rejects the money for an opportunity to learn to code.”

 

From DSC:
Several people and things were extremely impressive to me about this piece:

  • Patrick McConlogue — the young software engineer who took the time to teach this homeless man how to get started with coding and continued to assist/teach him
  • Leo Grand’s incredible drive, determination, hard work, and his love of — and fascination with — the environment
  • Logan, the young woman from Google who flew across the country to help Leo out
  • The power of faith and prayer

 

My thanks to Mr. Joseph Byerwalter
for the initial resource on this.

 
 

Luke 1:30-33 (NIV)

But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

 

10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.

 

Proverbs 27:6

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend.”   King James Version

or

“Wounds from a friend can be trusted…”   New International Version

 

 

Psalm 19:14

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

 

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 

 

 

Jeremiah 29:11-13

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV)

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

 

Isaiah 26:2-3 (NIV)

2 Open the gates
that the righteous nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith.

You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.

 

Proverbs 29:25 (NIV)

Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

 

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

 

 

Psalm 121:1-2 (AMP)

I will lift up my eyes to the hills — From whence shall my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

 

Romans 12:4-5

Romans 12:4-5 (NIV)

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

 

Revelation 21:4 (NKJV)

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

 

 

 

Luke 12:6-7

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?  Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.  Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

From DSC:
What strikes me about this piece of scripture is how amazingly detailed-oriented — and loving/caring — the LORD is.  Incredible.  Mind-blowing!

By the way, I’d take this message any day over the front-page articles that I see each morning when I pick up some coffee.  The articles are typically meant to catch your eye and attention — but do so almost always with an agenda of violence, war, humankind’s fighting and atrocities towards one another.  Normally, they are accompanied by images of violence, loss, catastrophe, accidents, war, bloodshed, and fighting.  Whereas that might sell newspapers, I hate the underlying message — the message they convey is life isn’t worth *&%~.   Once again showing that the world’s ways are often 180 degrees opposite from our Heavenly Father.

 

 

Thanks LORD!

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