Steve Krouse

Hello, I'm Steve! Orginally from South Florida, I now live and work on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

The central theme of my work is thinking about thinking, particularly as it pertains to designing curriculum and programming langauges.

I enjoy receiving and replying to thoughtul email. You can reach me via steve at futureofcoding.org.

Current Projects

2017 Sun 03 - Debugging Myself - my never-ending effort to get better at stuff
2017 Jul 13 - Future of Coding - my research project and podcast to improve software development
2016 May 01 - WoofJS - the coding platform I built for my students for these reasons
2015 Jul 01 - The Coding Space - the after school program I co-founded in July 2015

Previously @

2014 Jan 20 - Software Engineer @ Looker
2013 Jun 20 - Software Engineer @ First Round Capital
2013 Jan 01 - Partner @ Dorm Room Fund
2012 Sep 20 - Computer Science @ University of Pennslyvania

Podcasts

2017 Jul 13 - Future of Coding Podcast
2016 Oct 09 - Off Trail Learning - Steve Krouse on Dropping Out of College to Live the Silicon Valley Dream

Essays

2017 Jul 23 - The Coding Space: Two Year Update
2017 Jul 19 - Learn to code in two-player mode
2017 May 09 - The Rose Project (April 2017)
2017 Mar 25 - The Rose Project (March 2017)
2017 Jan 06 - Resources for creating front-end programming languages and frameworks in 2017
2016 Nov 19 - Types are shapes — a graphical programming exploration
2016 Nov 14 - TEDD — Technologically-Enabled Direct Democracy
2016 Aug 02 - Goodbye, Seymour
2016 Jul 27 - The Trick to Teach Anonymous Functions to 11-Year-Olds
2016 Jul 25 - Scratch Has a Marketing Problem
2016 Jul 12 - WoofJS — making JavaScript learnable
2016 Jun 22 - The Coding Space: A year in review
2016 Feb 20 - The 4 Steps to Giving Magical Praise
2016 Jan 08 - "Why do we need to learn this?"
2015 Dec 19 - The Lens Lens
2015 Dec 15 - The College of the Future
2015 Dec 05 - Stop Paying $250k for a Degree and a Network
2015 Nov 26 - Incidentally for machines
2015 Jun 13 - A Cursory Education On Education
2014 Jun 17 - One year ago today I blogged that I'd never drop out of college
2013 Sep 26 - Making friends at the world's largest hackathon
2013 Jul 09 - Be a quitter
2013 Jun 17 - What It Really Means To Drop Out
2013 May 13 - Paying it Forward
2013 Mar 21 - Being Nice Matters
2013 Nov 18 - When nobody's watching
2013 Nov 18 - Stuffed Animal Priorities
2013 Feb 09 - Medieval Luxury, Modern Torture, and Education 2.0
2013 Jan 14 - Theseus and The Minotaur
2012 Dec 24 - IP And Innovation: A Software Case Study
2012 Dec 06 - Scheming Sororities and the Gale-Shapley Algorithm
2012 Dec 22 - The Arbitrary and The Elegant
2012 Nov 01 - Start Small