BUILDING A WEBSITE
Posted on August 9th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
HtmlDog.com teaches you how to build a website from scratch, for free.
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THE PROGRAMMERS WAY
Posted on August 2nd, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
CourseReport.com programmers headclaims that schools and camps teaching programming, often called “coding,” will bring in $60 million in tuition for the year and graduate 5,987 coders, a 175 percent increase over last year. Tuition can cost up to $20,000, with the average around $10,000 for courses ranging from nine to 12 weeks. All in all, this seems expensive to us.
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BASIC TURNS 50
Posted on May 28th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
One of the first and most popular programming languages, “BASIC,” turned 50 this month. The acronym stands for “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code,” it started as a student math project at Dartmouth College and from this small town in New Hampshire it conquered the world. Even Bill Gates used it.
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LEARN TO PROGRAM WITH SCRATCH
Posted on March 23rd, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
“Learn to Program With Scratch,” by Majed Marji, $35 from NoStarch.com.
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BOOK: A THEORY OF FUN
Posted on January 2nd, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
“A Theory of Fun for Game Design,” by Raph Koster, $35 from oreilly.com, is now out in color, with a full-page cartoon flanking every page of text. The author was the lead designer for massive online games such as “Ultima Online” and “Star Wars Galaxies.” He discusses what makes a game fun and how games can teach primitive survival techniques. Creative designers, he says, use other games for inspiration. The forward is by Will Wright, creator of SimCity.
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BOOKS: PROGRAMMING FOR KIDS
Posted on November 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“3D Game Programming for Kids,” by Chris Strom; $36 from oreilly.com. Here’s a great system for teaching you to program, no matter what your age.
All you need is a computer and preferably the Chrome web browser, though anything except Internet Explorer will do. The author explains things so well that in literally a few minutes, Joy had created a colorful ball and cube on her screen and was able to animate them.
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RETURN OF THE NATIVE
Posted on July 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Dan Bricklin is perhaps the most famous programmer alive. Because he, with partner Bob Frankston, created VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet to run on a personal computer. It was 1979 and it ran only on an Apple II. Arguably it made Apple, because this was the first business program, and that created a reason to buy Apple, instead of the half dozen other desktops at that time. Before VisiCalc, most people in the business said the personal computer was a really a game machine, and would never be anything else. Visicalc changed that forever. The fact that it was written for the Apple and not some other computer was an accident. The two men were students at Harvard and initially started […]
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BOOKS OF INTEREST
Posted on October 6th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Here’s another “Head First” book in the ongoing series from O’Reilly. This one is “Head First HTML and CSS,” by Robson and Freeman, $40 at oreilly.com.
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PROGRAMMING FROM SCRATCH
Posted on September 9th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Super Scratch Programming Adventure,” by the Learning Through Engineering, Art and Design (LEAD) Project; $25, also from nostarch.com.
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KHAN CAN
Posted on August 27th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
KhanAcademy’s free educational videos have been viewed 178 million times on YouTube. Now they’ve launched a “Computer Science” program that teaches kids and adults how to handle JavaScript; that’s the computer language that dominates the Web.
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