"I've had some amazing discussions with some colleagues recently about QR Codes and how we can use them. When I got over the initial "huh?" response as to what they are, and they understood that the Code can contain type of data, we started to get somewhere really quite quickly.
So, this post is really to consolidate my previous posts and to make it slightly more graphical - images are often easier to follow."
For the newbies they are just the strange lines forming a square but once known they are an effective part of the marketing strategy to easily grab the attention of the potential customers.
The Quick Response codes consists of a group of data which are saved in the form of the symbols. These can be seen in any of the products you purchase form the super market...
"There are quite a few QR Code generators online. Some of them like BarCode Maker simply cosmeticize the Google Chart API while others like ZXing have full MECARD encoding. Here are the best examples:"
Scan is the fastest, simplest and most user-friendly QR Code and barCode scanner available. If your iPhone (or iPod Touch/iPad*) came with a built-in QR Code scanner, this would be it! Check out our site at scan.me to create and manage your own QR Codes for free.
"QR Codes are similar to bar Codes making it possible to access Web sites and messages through a camera phone. " This wiki from the University of Wyoming is a great collection of ideas, guides and tutorials.
QR Stuff generates codes from the following Text, Website URL, Telephone Number, SMS Message, Email Address, Email Message, Contact Details (VCARD), Event (VCALENDAR)
Google Maps Location, Wifi Login (Android Only), Paypal Buy Now Link, Social Media , iTunes Link & YouTube Videos. You can also use their pay for service for other options eg t-shirts etc.
Kaywa is a really straight forward QR code generator. Input can be URL, 250 character text, Phone Number or SMS. Is only for non-commercial use though.
"the goals of a programming system should be: to support and encourage powerful ways of thinking, to enable programmers to see and understand the execution of their programs. A live-coding Processing environment addresses neither of these goals. JavaScript and Processing are poorly-designed languages that support weak ways of thinking, and ignore decades of learning about learning. And live coding, as a standalone feature, is worthless.
W3Schools has a range of web building tutorials including HTML5 and other versions. It also has a range of try it yourself examples of code that you can cut and paste from and experiment with as well as having code reference and certification pages
"Even if you're not a programmer, you can easily create tiny, time-saving applications that breeze through repetitive tasks-renaming large groups of files, executing terminal commands, and much more-with the simple, code-free, drag-and-drop interface of OS X's built-in tool, Automator."