Kids Code & Computer Science

Links from the bottom of all the April 2015 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

Why Do Designers Hate Comic Sans?

https://www.kidscodecs.com/why-designers-hate-comic-sans/

Comic Sans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

Vince Connare

http://www.connare.com/
https://twitter.com/VincentConnare

Why Comic Sans

Connare’s history of creating Comic Sans
http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

Fonts Included in Microsoft Products

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/

Dezeen Interview with Vincent Connare

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/27/vincent-connare-typography-interview-comic-sans-ms/

Higgs Boson Announcement Made in Comic Sans

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/04/higgs-boson-discovery-comic-sans_n_1648494.html

Pope Benedictus XVI Tribute

His resignation letter is on page 61 of this document, published in Comic Sans.
http://www.vatican.va/bxvi/omaggio/index_en.html

Why You Hate Comic Sans

Excellent and detailed technical description of the problems with Comic Sans, with an emphasis on lost kitten posters.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/

What is wrong with Comic Sans?

http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/38226/what-is-wrong-with-comic-sans

What’s So Wrong with Comic Sans?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548

Can Anything Save Comic Sans, the World’s Most Hated Font?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerhard-bachfischer/comic-sans-font_b_5188026.html

Not My Type: Why the Web Hates Comic Sans

http://mashable.com/2012/10/03/comic-sans-history/

New Study Explains Why Comic Sans Font So Hilarious

From The Onion, with cheap shots at WingDings and Papyrus tossed in.
http://www.theonion.com/video/new-study-explains-why-comic-sans-font-so-hilariou,21202/

Comic Sans Cartoon

https://imaginaryanomaly.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/comic-sans/

Comic Sans Criminal

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/

Ban Comic Sans Website

http://bancomicsans.com/main/

Top 10 Most Notoriously Hated Fonts

http://www.topdesignmag.com/top-10-most-notoriously-hated-fonts/

There is Nothing Wrong with Comic Sans

The one site I found which supported the font.
https://eamann.com/tech/theres-nothing-wrong-with-comic-sans/

Comic Sans

Try out the font with your own words and phrases at My Fonts.
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/microsoft/comic-sans/

Letterform (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterform

Typography (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography

Felt Tip Roman Font

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/marksimonson/felt-tip-roman/
https://typekit.com/fonts/felt-tip-roman

CrimeFighter BB Font

A great source for informal handwritten comic book fonts better designed than Comic Sans.
http://www.blambot.com/

Variables, Constants, and Data Types

https://www.kidscodecs.com/variables-constants-data-types/

Pen and Paper Coding

https://www.penpapercoding.com

Erik Linde

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=936246

The 10 Principles of Good Web Design for Developers

https://www.kidscodecs.com/10-principles-of-good-web-design-for-developers/

Mitch Boyer

https://twitter.com/mrmitchboyer
https://instagram.com/mrmitchboyer/
http://mitchboyer.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmitchboyer

The Flatiron School

http://flatironschool.com
http://flatironschool.com/web

The 10 Principles of Good Web Design for Developers

http://blog.flatironschool.com/post/103222909668/the-10-principles-of-good-web-design-for

Dieter Rams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Dieter_Rams:_ten_principles_for_good_design
http://design.designmuseum.org/design/dieter-rams
https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/dieter-rams

An Interview with Joe Dytrych and Dee Saigal, Creators of Erase All Kittens

https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-joe-dytrych-dee-saigal/

Erase All Kittens

https://eraseallkittens.com/
https://twitter.com/EraseAllKittens

Drum Roll HQ

http://drumrollhq.com/
https://twitter.com/DrumRollHQ
http://drumrollhq.com/blog/
http://drumrollhq.com/a-festive-update-from-tarquin-glitterquiff/

Joe Dytrych

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-dytrych/a3/aa8/5b1
https://twitter.com/SomeHats

Dee Saigal

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dee-saigal/32/1b4/354
https://twitter.com/deesaigal

Learn Typography Online

https://www.kidscodecs.com/learn-typography-online/

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

http://webtypography.net/
http://webtypography.net/toc/

Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
https://twitter.com/ellenlupton

Skillshare Typography Courses

http://www.skillshare.com/search?query=typography

Typography That Works: Typographic Composition and Fonts

A free basic typography course on Skillshare taught by Ellen Lupton.
http://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Typography-That-Works-Typographic-Composition-and-Fonts/1694217981?refId=4452958

Lynda.com Typography Courses

http://www.lynda.com/search?q=typography

HackDesign

https://hackdesign.org/lessons/8 (Typography in Practice, and Where to Go From Here)
https://hackdesign.org/lessons/2 (Dive into Typography)

KernType

For best results, click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab top right to learn the correct way to play the game.
http://type.method.ac/

ShapeType

http://shape.method.ac/

Maggie Appleton

http://maggieappleton.com/
http://www.quora.com/Maggie-Appleton
http://www.quora.com/Maggie-Appleton/answers

Letterform (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterform

Typography (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography

Help Build Applications Online

https://www.kidscodecs.com/help-build-applications-online/

Assembly.com Website

https://assembly.com
https://assembly.com/help/basics
https://assembly.com/about
https://assembly.com/terms
http://blog.assembly.com/

Assembly.com Meta Pages

This URL lets you see how Assembly manages its own business using the website.
https://assembly.com/meta/bounties

Swift Programming Language

https://www.kidscodecs.com/swift-programming-language/

Swift

https://developer.apple.com/swift/
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/swift/conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/GuidedTour.html
https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_%28programming_language%29

Swift Inspirations

http://www.nondot.org/sabre/
http://lighttable.com/2014/06/10/light-table-and-apples-swift/
http://lighttable.com/2012/06/24/its-playtime/
http://vimeo.com/36579366 (Bret Victor)
http://vimeo.com/66085662 (Bret Victor)

Why Apple's Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/apple-swift/

Why Coders Are Going Nuts Over Apple's New Programming Language

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/apple-swift-language/

The One Last Thread Holding Apple and Google Together

Describes how Google and Apple both use LLVM to run apps on their operating systems.
http://www.wired.com/2013/07/apple-google-llvm/all/

Building Your First Swift App

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=16

Introduction to the Swift Programming Language

http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-swift-programming-language/

Swift Tutorial: A Quick Start

http://www.raywenderlich.com/74438/swift-tutorial-a-quick-start
http://www.raywenderlich.com/74904/swift-tutorial-part-2-simple-ios-app

6 Best Free Swift Tutorials for Apple's New Programming Language

http://www.skilledup.com/learn/programming/6-best-free-swift-tutorials-programming-new-language/

Objective-C

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Introduction/Introduction.html

Cocoa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_%28API%29
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=Frameworks&topic=Cocoa%20Layer
http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/

Cocoa Touch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_Touch
http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios/cocoa-touch.html
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Miscellaneous/Conceptual/iPhoneOSTechOverview/iPhoneOSTechnologies/iPhoneOSTechnologies.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007898-CH3-SW1

50 Tools and Resources for Swift Programming

http://www.computersciencezone.org/swift-programming-language-tools/

Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns

https://www.kidscodecs.com/design-patterns-anti-patterns/

Software Design Patterns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
http://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns

Software Design Anti-Patterns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern
http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns

Model-View-Controller Pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller

Design Patterns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern

Code Golf

https://www.kidscodecs.com/code-golf/

CodingBat

Probably a great place to start with Java and Python problems. Includes a box to type in your solution plus answers and link to help with relevant parts of each language.
http://codingbat.com/

Code Golf (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf

Anarchy Golf: All Problems

Problems in many different languages. You can upload your solution for a score.
http://golf.shinh.org/all.rb

StackExchange Code Golf

These problems are considered off-topic but easily found with the code-golf tag.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

Reddit Code Golf

https://www.reddit.com/r/codegolf

What Code Golf Taught Me about Python

By Louis Brandi, provides some insights into the strengths and limits of code golf.
http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/09/what-code-golf-taught-me-about-python/

Programming and Logic Puzzles

Beyond code golf are sites with lots of programming problems to test your skills and knowledge, for beginners to expert coders.
http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/06/programming-and-logic-puzzles.html

Squeezing a playable chess program into 487 bytes

And beyond programming problems to test your skills are big problems like coding entire applications in the smallest amount of code possible. Here’s a chess program written in 1-2 kilobytes (your average video game is tens of megabytes in size, if not bigger).
http://1kchess.an3.es/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/squeezing-a-playable-chess-program-into-487-bytes/

Online Security Tips

https://www.kidscodecs.com/online-security-tips/

How to Keep Your Personal Information Secure (US FTC)

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0272-how-keep-your-personal-information-secure

Internet Fraud (USA.gov)

http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Internet-Fraud.shtml

National Cyber Security Alliance

https://www.staysafeonline.org/

Be Safe on the Internet

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Safe-on-the-Internet

The secret to staying safe online (BBC)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141010-the-secret-to-staying-safe-online

How to Make Your Entire Internet Life More Secure in One Day

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-entire-internet-life-more-secure-in-on-1348598911

How to Stay Secure Online

http://lifehacker.com/5714296/how-to-stay-secure-online

9 Things You Absolutely Must Do to Keep Your Online Identity Secure

http://gizmodo.com/5932663/9-things-you-absolutely-must-do-to-keep-your-online-identity-secure

Tips to Protect Yourself from Online Fraud

https://www.team-cymru.org/tips.html

Secure Your Online Accounts by Removing Third Party App Access

Includes links to Google, Dropbox, and other services.
http://www.howtogeek.com/198673/secure-your-online-accounts-by-removing-third-party-app-access/

Google Android Device Manager

https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Responsible-Tech/2013/0805/Google-unveils-Android-equivalent-of-Find-My-iPhone

Windows Find My Phone Service

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/settings-and-personalization/find-a-lost-phone
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/basics/find-a-lost-phone

How to Keep Your Business Information Secure

http://guides.wsj.com/small-business/technology/how-to-keep-your-business-information-secure/

Survey: Hardly Anybody Uses a Password Manager

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security-software/332517-survey-hardly-anybody-uses-a-password-manager
http://www.roboform.com/blog/password-security-survey-results

Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com

Box

https://www.box.com/

SpiderOak

https://spideroak.com/

LastPass

https://lastpass.com/

Dashlane

https://www.dashlane.com/

1Password

https://agilebits.com/onepassword

Roboform

http://www.roboform.com/

10 Million Passwords

https://www.kidscodecs.com/10-million-passwords/

Today I am Releasing 10 Million Passwords

https://xato.net/passwords/ten-million-passwords/#.VPKCJXbl8yA

The Strange Case of Barrett Brown

http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown

Adding 105 Charges Against Barrett Brown

http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/adding-105-charges-against-barrett-brown

Facebook Now Actively Seeks Password Leaks to Protect its Users

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/17/facebook-scans-password-leaks/

Mary Glendening Talks about Library Makerspaces as Community Technology Centers

https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-mary-glendening/

Mary Glendening

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-glendening/8/852/955/en
https://twitter.com/mglendening

CreateSpace

http://www.createspacemfl.com/
https://twitter.com/CreateSpaceMFL
https://www.facebook.com/createspacemfl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/createspacemfl
http://www.middletownfreelibrary.org/#!createspace/c20ax

Middletown Free Library

http://www.middletownfreelibrary.org

Library Services and Technology Act

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/lsta
http://www.imls.gov/

MakeyMakey

http://www.makeymakey.com/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/makey-makey-projects/

Squishy Circuits

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

Paper Circuits

http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/paper-circuits

3D Systems MakerLab Club

http://www.3dsystems.com/zh/education/partnersandresources/makerlab-club

littleBits Korg Synth Kit

http://littlebits.cc/kits/synth-kit
http://littlebits.cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4th8p0jSK9E

Our Makerspace Journey

Another makerspace journey, from a school in Tampa, Florida
http://renovatedlearning.com/our-makerspace-journey/
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/02/k-12/teen-tech-week-2014-computer-tear-downs-skyping-raspberry-pis/

Paul Gentile & Soldering Sundays Minecraft Circuits in Real Life kits

http://solderingsunday.com/
http://solderingsunday.com/pixel-pals-chip/
http://solderingsunday.com/projects-2/
http://solderingsunday.com/shop/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solderingsunday/chip-an-electronics-kit-with-character?ref=card

Makerspaces and the Participatory Library

https://www.facebook.com/groups/librarymaker/

Technology Training and Libraries

https://www.facebook.com/groups/215892381802232/