Hacker News: Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Caleb_SmithHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:10:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "Show HN: A daily digest for reMarkable"]]>What a great idea! When testing this out, the text from the articles is somewhat opaque, which makes it difficult to read. The images and headers seem look fine though.

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:12:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42693089Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42693089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42693089<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?"]]>I have been teaching a Python course at my local jail M-F for over a year now, and something we have struggled with is finding potential internships or general employment for our students when they are released. We typically recommend our students to enter the local community college system, but we also have some students that are utterly brilliant and could succeed without a formal education.

Does anyone have any insight for how we should approach companies on their behalf? Is it more beneficial to teach web development (it seems like this is an easier way to break into the industry)?

I am also interested in hearing any opinions on how we should approach teaching in the setting where there is no internet access and the typical mathematics level is algebra.

]]>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:01:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21791363Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21791363https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21791363<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "Ask HN: Prisoners Not Allowed to Study Programming?"]]>Feel free to email me! I am happy to answer any questions.

]]>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:51:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364658Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364658https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364658<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "Ask HN: Prisoners Not Allowed to Study Programming?"]]>My email is caleb@virginia.edu, I'd love to talk about it!

]]>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:43:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359316Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359316<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "Ask HN: Prisoners Not Allowed to Study Programming?"]]>I teach a programming course at my local jail, so there are institutions that allow it. In my experience, the jail prefers if the books come straight from Amazon or other known companies, so you might want to try that.

]]>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:28:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353837Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353837https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353837<![CDATA[New comment by Caleb_Smith in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)"]]>Do you offer an internship program over the Summer?

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:30:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8543367Caleb_Smithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8543367https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8543367