If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs

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Tim is an award-winning writer and technologist who enjoys teaching tech to non-technical people. He has many years experience with web sites and applications in business, technical, and creative roles. He and his wife have two kids, now teenagers, who are mad about video games.

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Best Practices

Find Summer Tech Camps

It's that time of year: time to start thinking of summer tech camps for 2015. Here are a few ideas where to begin looking.

People

Rachel Manning Talks Software Development and the Freelance Life

Rachel Manning talks about her life as a freelance software developer building websites and web applications from her home in Mammoth Lakes, California.

Notebook

Holiday Toy Ideas

Here are lots of ideas for computer science and programming toys kids might like, based on different age groups.

Projects and Puzzles

Create a Website with Wix

Wix.com is a free online tool you can use to create a website. Here's a basic tutorial to get started, as well as files to build a test site.

Language of the Month

C

The C programming language is used often in operating systems and has influenced other languages for decades.

People

Chris Bradfield Talks Coding, Games, and Helping Kids Code

Chris talks about his journey from TRS-80 computers to websites to the game business to teaching kids to code in summer camp.

Code Snippets

Control Flow

How do programming languages control the flow or processing of instructions? Here's how control flows work in several languages.

Concepts

Destinations and Systems

Designers of products, content, and software use the concepts of destinations and systems to create content and apps for all our devices.