NYC Programmer Begins Coding Lessons With Homeless 'Genius'

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. In a New York City programmer's version of this parable, fishing is coding

Each day on his way to work, Patrick McConlogue noticed a homeless man near the Hudson River. McConlogue, who describes himself as a entrepreneur, programmer, designer and social media strategist on his digital resume, devised a plan to offer the homeless man a choice between $100 in cash or coding lessons for an hour per day over the course of two months.

"Before you think this is some weird 'fish bowl' experiment, you can just tell when he looks at you that he lost a series of battles," McConlogue wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. Read more...