Our april 2014 Issue
How to Make a Twitter Bot
Probably every other day some very well-intentioned person asks me: "Can you teach me how to make a…
File Extensions
The file extension displayed in your web browser can reveal the software language used to build then deliver…
Traceroute
There is a simple way to see traffic jump from one computer to another on the internet: traceroute.…
What is an Algorithm?
Or here’s a fun question: can you pronounce the word? Google says the word is pronounced Al-Ga-Rhythm. I’ve…
Lisp
In the mid to late 1950s, John McCarthy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had a problem to…
How to Build a Slightly Complicated Website
In the February issue, I showed you how to create a simple website made of two basic HTML…
Objects
This Code Snippets section of the magazine explains parts of programming languages common across most or all languages.…
April 2014 News Wire
Pi Day: pi transformed into incredible art — in pictures http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/gallery/2014/mar/14/pi-day-pi-transformed-into-incredible-art-in-pictures The Time I Thought Tao Lin Was…
A Short History of Bots and Robots
This issue is about bots, application programming interfaces (APIs), algorithms, and software automation. Now I’d like to take…
What is an API?
Chances are you either don't know what an API is or you have heard of it but don't…
Bot Makers
There are many fun and thought provoking Twitter bots. How do you find them? Where do you begin…
How to Build Example Bot
To help people understand how Twitter bots work, Darius Kazemi has created an Example Bot project on Github…
The Algorithm Beat
Aside from a deep love of (hopefully) cheesy horror movies like this one, Oculus, I happened to be…