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This site is dedicated to the students and teachers who want to learn Scratch. . To download all the video-tutorials and materials in this website, please submit your name and the mailing address of your school or institution through the 'Contact Us' link. You will receive a username and password that will allow you to login and download these materials. You will also find instructions on how to use these resources.

Videos created by the CS Unplugged team. All available for download for offline use in the classroom.

Timeline for video games

Not a very stimulating video, but it does provide a good overview of the Turtle Graphics in Python.

Brochures, Posters, Videos

This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine.

a recent tweet about when I took a picture and made a video of a slug I found in the backyard

"Updated for iOS 5. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone and iPad platform using the iOS SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller paradigm, memory management, Objective-C programming language. Other topics include: object-oriented database API, animation, multi-threading and performance considerations. Prerequisites: C language and programming experience at the level of 106B (Programming Abstractions) or X. Recommended: UNIX, object-oriented programming, graphical toolkits Offered by Stanford's School of Engineering, the course will last ten weeks and include both the lecture videos and PDF documents. A new lecture will be posted each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to this course, and automatically receive new lectures as they become available. Released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license."

Excellent video (biased for Google since it's from Google) about the evolution of Google search

Educators have been tapping into the wildly popular online game Minecraft for its potential as a learning tool for a while now - to teach physics, math, and computer science. But until recently, the game was mostly the territory of computer science teachers, and even they were forced to use the commercial version of the online game. So a few months ago, two teachers, Santeri Koivisto and Joel Levin, decided to make the software more accessible and relevant to teachers. They joined forces to found MinecraftEdu and started offering discounted educator licenses to Minecraft.

An excellent TED video from a cybercrime and malware expert. My class found this video quite funny and Mikko covers some excellent ground from the curriculum.

This page compiles movie and online resources suggested by members of the ACSE mailing list. The purpose of these resources are to help supplement the curriculum in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses.

When a machine won't boot users often panic. But with the right tools, a seasoned IT pro can often revive a seemingly unbootable PC or at the very least recover the user's data. During this episode of TR Dojo, I highlight the following five Linux rescue tools for recovering Windows, Mac, or Linux machines:

One of the most popular bits of code around the Macworld offices is Dropbox . We've made videos about it, we've written about how to get more out of it, we've reviewed programs that take advantage of it, and we've even given it an Eddy award. But we've never reviewed Dropbox itself. So with Dropbox 1.0 for Mac officially released, it's about time we did. And given that it's free (more on that below), it's about as good a candidate for Mac Gems as there is.