Photo by Christina Morillo Picture this: a world where coding is as effortless as conversing in English, where programming becomes akin to a casual chat with computers. According to Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, this isn’t a mere fantasy, it will soon be a reality for us all — thanks to AI. In his recent speech at the World Government Summit at Dubai, Huang suggested that we stop emphasising coding and computer science education. “Over the course of the last 10, 15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science. Ev ..read more

A Comparison of the Top 3 Tools for Machine Learning Beginners: Orange vs PyCaret vs Scikit TLDR: A discussion on which of these 3 Data Science/Machine Learning libraries you should pick for your next data science / machine learning project. Whenever we hear the term, “machine learning (ML)”, our minds automatically conjure up images of software developers hunched over laptops, clacking away at their keyboards… But this scenario cannot be further from the truth. In fact, today, almost anyone, including you and I, can be interested, involved and even well-versed in the field of ML. A ..read more

Simple 2D Platformer game made by our students Between 20th to 24th November, a group of 14 to 18-year-olds, entered the computer labs of St Patricks’ School, carrying laptops, water bottles and an eager mind for learning a new, much-coveted skill — Game Development in Unity. It was finally time for our (Tinkercademy’s) Unity Bootcamp. For those who have not heard of Unity before, Unity is a powerful game development engine that enables users to build immersive and interactive 2D and 3D games, virtual realities (VR), augmented realities (AR), and much much more…. We’ve been teaching ..read more

Designs made by our campers! During the recent December holidays, we organised a unique coding camp — one that had a distinctly different flavour from our regular camps. Compared to those, this camp was a hybrid of coding and sewing. WHY CODING AND SEWING? We chose coding and sewing because of our friends at Bernina, the world’s leading sewing machine manufacturers. At the time, both of us were planning to hold a holiday camp, hence, it seemed fitting for us to collaborate. As the saying goes, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” perhaps there were synergistic benef ..read more

Editor’s Note: Ong Yi Shen is a final-year undergraduate student majoring in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He chose to spend his final summer internship with us, where he applied his proficient Python programming skills to tackle real-world challenges. Below, he shares a variety of handy Python tips to generate reports from CSV files. The code will be running on Google Colab, which allows for running Python code in the browser using cloud computing. One can even connect to a runtime with a GPU to allow for machine learning. By default, the runtime will only have ..read more

Editor’s note: Mark, a self-starter and aspiring software engineer, joined us over a 12-week period as a teaching and curriculum design intern. Although his internship stint was short, he took it upon himself to learn as much as he could and blew us away with his adaptability and courage. We enjoyed your unwavering spirit, and we wish you the best of luck, Mark! Do you ever pour boiling soup into a cup and think to yourself, “Wow, this is taking really long to cool, if only my liquid was in a container of greater diameter, giving it more exposed surface area to lose heat from.”? Bowl ..read more

Editor’s note: Enric Tan is currently pursuing a Computer Science degree at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He interned with us over the summer break this year and dove right into a wide array of coding languages. Here, he writes about the main takeaways from his internship with us. Thanks for sharing your experience Enric! In my summer break as a year 1 student at NTU, I decided to take an internship with Tinkertanker to expose myself to more coding languages and learn more about Computer Sciences. Through this internship, I have been introduced to many new things; Swift, C# and e ..read more

This blog is written by Natasha, Sheryl, and Marcus, three inquisitive Year 3 Computing students from the National University of Singapore (NUS), who embarked on an internship at Tinkertanker during the 2022 summer break, under the guidance of mentor YJ Soon. This blog post delves into their inspiring journey of bringing Tinkerfolio to life. The Genesis of Tinkerfolio Tinkerfolio’s story begins with EchoClass, Tinkertanker’s trusted in-house learning management system. As the team recognized the untapped potential within EchoClass, they envisioned transforming it into something more perso ..read more

In a rapidly evolving world, where technology interacts with almost anything and everything we can think of, it wouldn’t be hard to believe that fashion and textiles will soon get their own digital makeover too. Although the invention of the sewing machine in the 1800s radically revolutionised the textile manufacturing industry, the capabilities of sewing machines have remained rather stagnant for decades, requiring manual manoeuvres and a dedicated operator to perform sewing tasks. For a while, it seemed the innovation in the industry had come to a standstill. However, technology i ..read more

In today’s digital age, teenagers are not only avid users of technology but also creators and innovators. With rising advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), many talented youths are harnessing their skills to develop groundbreaking applications. These young entrepreneurs are redefining what it means to be a “regular teenager” by leveraging AI to solve complex real-world problems and positively impact society. In this article, we will showcase some of the top AI-based apps developed by remarkable youths aged between 13 to 16 years old during our recent hackathon. CounseLink Developed by ..read more