Our october 2021 Issue
What’s Your Type?
Fonts are magical. Not only are fonts our language made visible, they also convey emotion. There actually are…
October 2021 News Wire
World’s most powerful tidal turbine, the O2, starts exporting clean power The 74 meter (242 foot) long turbine,…
Holiday STEAM Gift Guide
Download a PDF file of this guide published in beanz magazine. With the holidays approaching — and really…
Textiles and Text Files
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for February 2018.
Art and Computing
Can computers create art? It’s a question that’s been asked for as long as we’ve been making computers…
G Whiz 5G?
As the world moves from 4G to 5G, people are enjoying faster download speeds on their mobile phones.…
Beam Me a Soda
It can be weird to think about sports and technology mixing into one. Sports tend to be a…
Flower Power and Colossus
Have you ever built a computer before? It can be scary, but once you’re done, you have a…
Lessons from Mars
For anyone who has read the novel, The Martian, the fact that settling Mars poses some serious problems…
Code with Pics in Pyret
Are you interested in text-based coding but prefer working with images and colors over numbers and letters? If…
Fractured Fairy Tales, Part 2
In part 1 of this series on creating fairy tales in Scratch 3.0, we showed how to switch…
What’s the Point?!
Years ago, when I first discovered that an exclamation point in computer code is called a bang, I…
Code Without a Computer
Not everyone has a computer to learn how to code. And — strangely enough — sometimes a computer…
Open Source Projects
There’s a gap between learning and playing with a programming language and knowing enough to use the language…
Get Started with Pico Boards
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller board from Raspberry Pi that is incredibly powerful and yet pretty…
What are Keywords in Programming Languages?
In the first case, you’re hungry while in the second case likely you’re a cannibal. Humans understand the…