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a teacher website used for teaching digital arts and animation

Classroom Textbook for Blender - newest version - great book - free - downloadable .pdf, can print and distribute

This site has the best collection of brushes.  I have so many of these installed that the students love to use to create their designs with.  Most of my tutorials have an option for them to choose and use different preset brushes.  The more options they have, the more detailed their planning.  I also have them create their own brushes.

At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies. Select a tutorial from the menu to the left.

This series of lessons includes step by step instructions, video lessons, homework exercises, and resources.  I have went through most of the lessons and have found the instructions very clear and the content engaging.  A must have for a Programming, Digital Arts, or an Animation class

No permission is necessary for any type of public, government, or nonprofit school to use these materials directly from the Internet. One of the most popular features is a free, award-winning course in video and audio production.

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. The website is free, but registration is required. This is a good resource for students to use in planning their sites or apps.

Icon design is a whole area of expertise on its own. This site is full of free icons your students can use in their applications or websites (just watch out for the licensing, as some are only licensed for personal or non-commercial use). When you download the icons, you can choose between a PNG or ICO file.

Use these free tools from Mozilla to create websites, look at the coding from other websites, and link your video directly to popular web services like Twitter, Wikipedia, Google maps and more

Freemium Construc 2 is a Windows-based visual editor that allows users to create HTML5 games without any coding experience. The software is the brainchild of the Gullen brothers and their London-based company, Scirra. The free version restricts some project management features and only allows exports to HTML5, but provides more than enough freedom to quickly make engaging games

tons of resources for robotics

"Pyro stands for Python Robotics. The goal of the project is to provide a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware. That is not to say that Pyro is just a toy. In fact, Pyro is used for real robotics research as well as courseware."

"4-H has developed a comprehensive robotics program to inspire young people and develop an early interest in robotics engineering and technology."

"arlier this year, Microsoft released a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of its robot-programming SDK, called "Microsoft Robotics Studio," the result of work done by one of the groups emerging from Microsoft Research. Robotics Studio provides a high-level generic interface for programming a wide range of robots using a distributed model. The utility of this approach is apparent by the fact that both hobbyists controlling robotic kits or toy robots and serious roboticists controlling large and complicated robots can use the same SDK. This article presents an overview of Robotics Studio, and then shows you how to use the SDK to program the iRobot Roomba vacuum robot."

"Useful robot algorithms in both pseudocode and source code. Because programming is a very huge subject and there are billions of books and tutorials on how to program already written, all I plan to cover is specifically what is important to programming robots not mentioned in common literature."