Our august 2013 Issue
Online Guidelines for Student Blogging, Commenting, and Personal Safety
Online guidelines for student blogging are somewhat obvious: don’t insult people, protect your privacy, and represent yourself, your…
Codea, Hopscotch, Tynker
Hopscotch An iPad application that uses the AppInventor and Scratch paradigm of standalone and nested blocks you combine…
How to Choose Your First Programming Language
Links (60+) are at bottom of this article to avoid distracting readers. How to choose your first programming…
Owls and Super Bugs
Here are articles to highlight two software programmers who work on interesting and useful problems. Joe Medley As…
Website Design Patterns
Have you ever made a dress? Or pair of pants? If so, you are familiar with the idea…
News Wire Stories for August 2013
Crowdsourcing a Time Machine to Revisit Climate Past Help create a database with climate data from maritime logs…
HTML Coding for Beginners
Here’s a secret about HTML: there are only five tags you need to learn. And they’re fairly easy…
How to Teach WordPress Basics to Students
How to teach WordPress to students is fairly easy to master. Because WordPress publishing software is easy to…
Random Hacks of Kindness, Junior Edition
Around May 1 this year, when I started to publish this magazine, I traded a few emails with…
Tracking Animals Online
Earlier this year, in 2013, the Zoological Society of London recently launched an online application to highlight the…
PHP
The origins of PHP are humble. What started as a set of small scripts to count visits to…
Tools to Create and Develop Software
The software programming tools coders use to create software and websites are either hand picked or decided by…
An Interview with Patrice Gans
I met Patrice while asking around for people who could connect me to teachers who teach computer science…