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I frequently see a problem when people (especially techies) try to teach programming to someone (especially non-techies). Many programming tutorials begin with basic programming principles: variables, loops, data types. This is both an obvious way to teach programming and almost certainly a wrong way to teach programming. It's wrong because nobody wants to learn how to program

Good find, Doug. His book is excellent: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

"Doug Engelbart knew that his obituaries would laud him as "Inventor of the Mouse." I can see him smiling wistfully, ironically, at the thought. The mouse was such a small part of what Engelbart invented."

"Some of the tech world's biggest successes began coding early. Here's how to get your kid on that track - for free!"

Apple Acknowledges iOS 4.1 Security Flaw. Will Fix it in November with iOS 4.2

Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.

Mozilla is improving the security of its open source Firefox Web browser this week with the help of a feature that originally debuted last year in Microsoft's rival Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft hopes to use the company's Web Matrix 2.0 tool-now in beta-to lure new-age web developers to Azure, its cloud-computing platform-as-a-service.

Ever since I was told about a list of Movies for Computer Science Students and wrote some comments about that list I have been thinking book. Fiction books. Novels that tell stories that involve computer science and the sorts of issues of privacy, philosophy, ethics and social change that computers make in our society.

Just learned about "Canada Learns Coding". Going to get #ACSE involved to promote it. #OnCSEd #hourofcode http://t.co/P3ZFaOwioY

Just learned about "Canada Learns Coding". Going to get #ACSE involved to promote it. #OnCSEd #hourofcode http://t.co/P3ZFaOwioY