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"That's a screen shot of my first App. A little thing I'm calling KidsGiggle. Pushing the picture plays a short recording of them laughing.  What's cool is that it took me - a noob with zero programming experience - about fifteen minutes to make."

This blog explores the use of computer technology, electronics and microcontrollers in High School Computer Technology and Computer Studies.

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

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An HTML5 app is a mobile web application built to run over multiple platforms, from one single core application. HTML5 apps can leverage the power and flexibility of modern web browsers to create mobile web applications that are fast, powerful and run on multiple devices.

What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks.

Excellent summary of the realities of teaching a subject like mathematics or physics, with some tips on how to overcome the hurdles. Equally applies to CS.

What a difference two weeks and a few words of legalese can make to the future of a widely used programming technology.\nIn that span of time, Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that technology.

"Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" is a free e-Book that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example. "Invent with Python" was written to be understandable by kids as young as 10 to 12 years old, although it is great for anyone of any age who has never programmed before."

An excellent set of programming challenges.

"This article explains the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6."

This page provides links to the version 2 (of Python) and version 3 books. Both HTML and PDF versions are available.

One of the difficulties students have in introductory computer science courses is understanding the dynamic complexities of several computer science basics. One reason that students have difficulty grasping these fundamental concepts is that these basics are processes, which textbooks and lectures cannot always adequately demonstrate. In this series of modules...

The Binary Game is all about adding up combination of binary numbers.

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

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This JavaScript tutorial explains how to convert ASCII Character to Hex, Decimal and Binary Code

A good overview of the basic terminology used in computer storage.

XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. The distribution includes an Apache 2 web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP and Perl. It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies.

JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and other dynamic languages are remaking the Web and bringing programming to the masses. Where should developers place their bets?