Our february 2019 Issue
Gas Stations in Space
There is no gas station in space. No place to pull up the spacecraft, refuel and go on…
The Case for Useless Robots
After teaching middle school robotics for a few years, this year my curriculum has taken a 180-degree turn.…
Blurry Circles
SketchUp is a free and fun program for 3D modeling. You can use SketchUp to design just about…
File Systems
Operating systems are complex beasts, full of many moving parts that allow the user to interact with the…
Minecraft Story Mode
Minecraft is a great game to play with friends in a unique sandbox, where players create their own…
Chicago USO Event
On September 30, 2018, United Service Organizations (USO) of Illinois and BMO Harris Bank, a Military Youth Programs…
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For this issue’s highlighted language, we’re going really old-school. We’re going to talk about one of the early…
3D Valentine’s Projects
With Valentine’s Day coming up, gift shopping is in full swing. It can be hard to find the…
Telling Interactive Stories in Scratch
Sometimes you want to make something in Scratch that isn’t a game per se but more like an…
Cardboard Circuits
FOR THIS PROJECT YOU WILL NEED A micro:bit 5 Crocodile clips Buzzer LED Copper slug tape 5 Bulldog…
How do Multiplayer Games Really Work?
If you’re an avid gamer, there’s a good chance you’ve played an online game before. These games connect…
Paper Clips Run Amok
We all know paperclips are thin metal wire bent into shapes to make it easy to hold together…
Chinese New Year Lantern
Celebrate Lunar New Year with your own custom-built lantern, complete with LEDs and micro:bit!
TIC-80 Maps and Music
This issue, we’re back to working on TIC-80, the fantasy computer for making retro games! As a refresher,…
FizzBuzz
Your challenge is to print out a list of numbers from 1 to 100. Every number divisible by…
Requests and Responses
Visiting a website is as natural as walking out the door and heading over to the park. You…
Triangle Generator
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Cell Towers
Today approximately 63% of people in the world own cell phones. For many across the globe they are…
February 2019 News Wire
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for February 2018.
Man in the Middle Attacks
If you’ve tried some of the codes we explored in past issues, you’ll know how good they are…
Automobile Computers
You might wonder, why computers in cars? Computers are more reliable and use fewer wires than mechanical equivalents.…