April 2014: Bots

How to Make a Twitter Bot

There are a ton of ways to make a Twitter bot. Here are a number of resources, ideas, and clues to follow up.

What is an Algorithm?

Algorithms control our lives online and offline. Here are some examples to show what is an algorithm and how they work.

How to Build Example Bot

I have updated the installation instructions for this Github project to make it even easier to install and play with.

Bot Makers

A collection of bot makers and professor types attend an online bot convention to talk about Twitter bots and more.

File Extensions

You can tell a bit about the software used to create the web page you're reading by looking at the URL in your web browser.

Traceroute

A computer command used to diagnose network problems also lets you see how data hops across the internet.

How to Build a Slightly Complicated Website

Some tips on how to find online publishing services and use them to create your website.

What is an API?

APIs can be a fun, easy to use, and easy to learn way to retrieve and mash up data online.

April 2014 News Wire

Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the month of March 2014.

Objects

Many programming languages organize their code into objects, to model their applications and make their code more reusable.

April 2014 Learn More Links

Links from the bottom of all the April 2014 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work.