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Welcome to Blocky.io, the home page for the Blocky programming language. Blocky is a visual programming system written in Common Lisp designed for multimedia authoring and general user programming. In addition to borrowing ideas from GNU Emacs, the language design is heavily influenced by existing visual programming research projects such as PureData, Squeak, Self Morphic, MIT Scratch, Berkeley's Build Your Own Blocks, and more recently Jens Moenig's Smalltalk Elements.

BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

PyStart will review code for the proper entries in the code and for the proper output. It will be created for beginners of programming. The goal of PyStart is to teach the basics of all programming skills.

robot you can program and control over the web

The FSF wasn't looking for money. The cost that comes with using free software code is that, if you sell or distribute programs or products that use the GPLed code, you have to share your modified code with its users. That's not much, but some companies, after adding their special sauce, don't want to share. That's a big, dumb mistake.

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A PicoCricket is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music. You can plug lights, motors, sensors, and other devices into a PicoCricket, then program them to react, interact, and communicate.

Using Scratch to program household devices

They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran's ability to make its first nuclear arms.

I think Scratch →Greenfoot → Eclipse is a good path for Scratch users who want to get deeperinto programming. And many Scratch users may not go on to learn Java ormajor in computer science, just as most of us who took music lessons did notgrow up to become professional musicians.[SC] This is something I really like about Scratch (and its fail-soft strategy).In a sense, I think this had been one of the original goals of Alice; I don't listin my article largely because it became challenging to realize in practice (3D issomewhat of a culprit here). I do agree that the transitions Scratch → Greenfoot, Alice → Greenfoot, and Scratch → Alice → Greenfoot wind up making agreat deal of sense in terms of what gets exposed to the student.

"Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track ofwhere you go - and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the devicewhich is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised." "Apple can legitimately claim that it has permission to collect the data:near the end of the 15,200-word terms and conditions for its iTunes program,used to synchronise with iPhones, iPods and iPads, is an 86-word paragraphabout "location-based services""

So what happens when most of the residents of planet Earth carry a device that gives them instant access to pretty much all of the world's information? The implications-for politics, for education, for global economics-are dizzying. In theory, the mobile revolution could enable citizens to demand greater openness and accountability from their governments. The reverse might also be true: governments could more easily spy on citizens. "You also have the prospect of having 5 billion surveillance points," says Jonathan Zittrain, codirector of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.