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My Top 5 Tips For Teaching Coding
These are my top 5 tips for teaching coding that I applied over the past 20 years. Since I have been teaching students in higher education how to work with technology and young kids how to code, I learned a ...
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Why Scratch Is Great For Learning To Code
When I was thinking through this week’s blog entry I had a brief conversation with a parent who had stated they wanted to spark the curiosity of their daughter to learn how to code. The parent was knowledgeable with technology ...
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Design Your Coding Project: Storyboards And Psuedo Code
Software coders from various generations all know that a good software project (app, game, enterprise software, etc) all start with a plan. When you study computer science or software development at a college or university you learn this thing known ...
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Coding Languages – The Secret All Programmers Know
A secret? Really? Yes. This entry will be the perfect companion for Trivial Pursuit – The Coding Version (if people still play Trivial Pursuit!). Java, Python, Javascript, C#, Pascal, BASIC, COBOL, and the list can go on. Yes, these ...
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My Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Behind The Scenes Diary Of A Kids Coding Camp Que the “Wayne’s World” flashback effect… I shook his hand after the college graduation ceremony. He was one of my best students and he reminded me it all started ...
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A Simple Explanation – The Internet Of Things
Whenever I hear the term “Internet of Things” I actually smile (because it is my favorite thing) and almost laugh. I have been around technology and computers long enough to have seen some terms become very popular but sound very ...
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Build An App In Minutes With IFTTT
Did you ever just think “I wish there was an app for that”? or when at work “I wish this website updated my software”? Many apps today are software applications and you need to understand coding to build them. Getting ...
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Did you learn a programming language in school?
This past week I saw this graphic that displayed many of the programming languages that are part of the computing world. When I looked at it, I first was impressed by the cool graphic and how it showed data visually. ...
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Gamefroot – Attaching A Script To A Character
Gamefroot Tutorial – Attach A Script Attaching a Script to a Character Making your characters (also called OBJECTS) move and do various actions is important. Watch this video tutorial to see how you can attach a script to a character. ...
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