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Cargo-Bot, An Addictive iPad Game That Teaches Programming Concepts | Co.Design: busine... - 3 views

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LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CODING BY LOSING YOURSELF IN THESE SIMPLE-BUT-DEVILISH PUZZLES.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CODING BY LOSING YOURSELF IN THESE SIMPLE-BUT-DEVILISH PUZZLES.</div>

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FREE .NET Gadgeteer Curricula for Schools and Colleges - Microsoft UK Faculty Connectio... - 0 views

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.NET Gadgeteer can be used in schools to help students make gadgets and learn C# programming along the way. These lesson plans give teachers all the material needed to run 8 1-hour sessions using .NET Gadgeteer. You will also need the hardware, details of which are given at http://netmf.com/gadgeteer.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">.NET Gadgeteer can be used in schools to help students make gadgets and learn C# programming along the way. These lesson plans give teachers all the material needed to run 8 1-hour sessions using .NET Gadgeteer. You will also need the hardware, details of which are given at <a href="http://netmf.com/gadgeteer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://netmf.com/gadgeteer</a>.</div>

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Mozilla - Webmaker - mozilla.org - 1 views

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Mozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing on the web. With TOOLS, PROJECTS and EVENTS that help you create, learn and connect. Our goal: move millions of people from using the web to actively making the web. Creating a new generation of webmakers, and a more web literate world.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing on the web. With TOOLS, PROJECTS and EVENTS that help you create, learn and connect. Our goal: move millions of people from using the web to actively making the web. Creating a new generation of webmakers, and a more web literate world.</div>

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8 FREE Online Computer Science Courses for Beginners and Advances Users - 1 views

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Many people want to learn computer science, but not many can afford to do so at the best institutions. Fortunately many of the best institutions in the world are opening up their courses so you can take a course from Stanford, MIT or Harvard simply by going online and learning at your own pace. Here are 8 ways you can take advantage of this.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Many people want to learn computer science, but not many can afford to do so at the best institutions. Fortunately many of the best institutions in the world are opening up their courses so you can take a course from Stanford, MIT or Harvard simply by going online and learning at your own pace. Here are 8 ways you can take advantage of this.</div>

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pearltrees * vespertine_girl * Python Quick Hacks and Codes - 1 views

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Python Quick Hacks and Codes - Pearltree

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Algorithms: The Ever-Growing, All-Knowing Way Of The Future : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

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"From an algorithms perspective, this is a great time to be alive. Algorithms are just frolicking in the mountains of data that they can play with."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"From an algorithms perspective, this is a great time to be alive. Algorithms are just frolicking in the mountains of data that they can play with."</div>

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CS Connections from the University of Michigan - 1 views

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CS4HS 2012 Workshop Schedule

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Startups Court Dev Bootcamp's Ruby Grads: 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K | TechCrunch - 1 views

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There are no two ways around it, there's a high demand for developers and engineers not only in the Bay Area, but around the country.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">There are no two ways around it, there's a high demand for developers and engineers not only in the Bay Area, but around the country.</div>

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iFlop: 60% of iOS developers lose money on apps (infographic) | VentureBeat - 0 views

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Nearly 60 percent of iOS developers don't break even with the apps that they create and market, according to a recent study by App Promo.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Nearly 60 percent of iOS developers don't break even with the apps that they create and market, according to a recent study by App Promo.</div>

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Coding Horror: Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? - 1 views

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This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:</div>

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This is how you actually teach people to program - jared tame - 2 views

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This won't be a short post, but it'll give you a summary of close to a year's worth of trying to teach people how to program. We know what works and what doesn't, and so far there's a lot of stuff out there that just doesn't work, based on our own experience and what our paying customers are telling us (they're mostly people who tried and gave up on Codecademy, Codeschool, Udacity, and Coursera).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This won't be a short post, but it'll give you a summary of close to a year's worth of trying to teach people how to program. We know what works and what doesn't, and so far there's a lot of stuff out there that just doesn't work, based on our own experience and what our paying customers are telling us (they're mostly people who tried and gave up on Codecademy, Codeschool, Udacity, and Coursera).</div>

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Microsoft HomeOS: An Operating System For The Home | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and... - 0 views

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The newest attempt at creating the "smart house" isn't just about turning your lights on with your phone. Microsoft is creating an entire app store of user-designed software to make where you live more programmable.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The newest attempt at creating the "smart house" isn't just about turning your lights on with your phone. Microsoft is creating an entire app store of user-designed software to make where you live more programmable.</div>

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - 1 views

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The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.</div>

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Which programming language should I learn first? | Pixelstech.net - 0 views

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Recently I saw somebody asked a question in a forum, the question is "Which programming language should I learn first?". Then someone answered this question. His answer:

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Recently I saw somebody asked a question in a forum, the question is "Which programming language should I learn first?". Then someone answered this question. His answer:</div>

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A geek with a hat » Google sent me a "what to know in on-site interviews" ema... - 1 views

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After two phone interviews Google asked me to visit London and have a whole day of chatting about technology and solving intricate coding puzzles. Just to see how good I am on a scale of 1 to Google.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">After two phone interviews Google asked me to visit London and have a whole day of chatting about technology and solving intricate coding puzzles. Just to see how good I am on a scale of 1 to Google.</div>

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I want to learn ruby.

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Cargo-Bot Is The World's First Game To Be Made Entirely On An iPad | Cult of Mac - 0 views

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App studio Two Lives Left has launched its first App Store game for the iPad, called Cargo-Bot. What makes this release different from the thousands of other iPad games that came before it? Well, Cargo-Bot is the world's first game to be coded entirely on an iPad itself.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">App studio Two Lives Left has launched its first App Store game for the iPad, called Cargo-Bot. What makes this release different from the thousands of other iPad games that came before it? Well, Cargo-Bot is the world's first game to be coded entirely on an iPad itself.</div>

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Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: University of Florida eliminates Computer Scien... - 1 views

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Wow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Wow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. </div>

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Pearltree featuring Arduino resources

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Well you don't have to look far. This year the Computer Science and Information Technology Conference (CS & IT) has all these things and a whole lot more. Please join like-minded computer science and IT educators for a great learning experience July 9th and 10th, 2012, in Irvine, California.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Well you don't have to look far. This year the Computer Science and Information Technology Conference (CS & IT) has all these things and a whole lot more. Please join like-minded computer science and IT educators for a great learning experience July 9th and 10th, 2012, in Irvine, California. </div>

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