Economy
Why Teaching a Homeless Man to Code Isn't That Bad a Place to Start
We may all have been a little too hard on Patrick McConlogue.
You may recall that a few weeks back, 23-year-old Patrick McConlogue, a programmer and entrepreneur, told the Internet that he planned to offer a homeless man the choice between a one-time gift of $100 or regular coding lessons from McConlogue for two months (plus a laptop and programming books to get started). However crassly conceived, the underlying idea was a fairly simple one: teach a man to fish, etc.
McConlogue returned a day later to update the story: the homeless man he sees everyday on the way to work is named Leo, and Leo chose the coding lessons.