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Where to Recycle Electronics

https://www.kidscodecs.com/where-to-recycle-electronics/

Call2Recycle

http://www.call2recycle.org/locator/

Earth911

http://search.earth911.com/
http://earth911.com/recycling/small-electronics/

GreenerGadgets.org

http://greenergadgets.org/

GameStop

http://www.gamestop.com/recommerce/web/

Target

Needs to have a Target Mobile store if you trade in a store, online otherwise.
http://www.targettradeinprogram.com/

Best Buy Recycling

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Global-Promotions/Recycling-Electronics/pcmcat149900050025.c?id=pcmcat149900050025

Staples Recycling

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Global-Promotions/Recycling-Electronics/pcmcat149900050025.c?id=pcmcat149900050025

Consumer Reports Articles on Recycling Electronics

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/how-to-recycle-old-electronics-devices/index.htm
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/08/apple-trade-in-program/index.htm

Dell Computer Recycling

http://dellreconnect.com/

Toshiba Recycling

http://us.toshiba.com/green/reuse-and-recycling

Apple Recycling

http://www.apple.com/recycling/

Amazon Trade-In Program

http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Trade-In/b?ie=UTF8&node=2226766011

Gazelle Trade-In Program

http://www.gazelle.com/

Basel Action Network

http://e-stewards.org/find-a-recycler/
http://www.ban.org/

Eraser (Windows)

http://eraser.heidi.ie/

US Government Resources

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0200-disposing-your-mobile-device
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecycling/donate.htm

What Happens to Your Electronics When You Drop Them Off for Recycling

http://escrapbeat.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/what-happens-to-your-electronics-when-you-drop-them-off-for-recycling/

Electronic Waste: Where Does It Go and What Happens to It?

http://techland.time.com/2011/01/14/electronic-waste-where-does-it-go-and-what-happens-to-it/

How to Do Online Research

https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-to-do-online-research/

Online Research Techniques

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/navigatingthenet/tp/How-to-Properly-Research-Online.htm
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/1/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/552/02/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Become an Expert Google Searcher in One Hour

A free online seminar from O’Reilly by Stephan Spencer and Nancy Blachman.
http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2923
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=683389&s=1&k=6B52DEB19D27657F84CD48BDA6313265

Google Guide

http://googleguide.com/
http://googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

Search Engines

http://www.google.com
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
http://code.google.com
http://www.bing.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.duckduckgo.com
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
http://www.looksmart.com
http://stackexchange.com/
http://stackoverflow.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.completeplanet.com
http://archive.org/
http://www.wikipedia.org
http://www.ipl.org
http://www.refdesk.com/

Online Research Course Material

https://sites.google.com/site/micdlir/irt-lesson-examples
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtaWNkbGlyfGd4OjEyZjkyNmQ1NjMwYTVkMTU
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtaWNkbGlyfGd4OjEzMmJmMDlhNzE3OWI4OA

Tools for Online Research

http://www.addthis.com/
http://getpocket.com
http://evernote.com/
https://trello.com/

How to Make (and Keep) New Years Resolutions

https://www.kidscodecs.com/make-keep-new-years-resolutions/

Adventure Journal: Make Plans Not Resolutions

http://www.adventure-journal.com/2013/01/make-plans-not-resolutions/

New Yorker: New Skills for a New Year

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/new-skills-for-a-new-year.html

Improvised Life: How to Do More in Less Time

http://www.improvisedlife.com/2011/12/21/how-to-do-more-in-less-time-pulse-and-rest/

Improvised Life: We Test Drive the Pomodoro Time Management Technique

http://www.improvisedlife.com/2012/01/24/we-test-drive-the-pomodoro-time-management-technique/

Business Week: How to Keep New Years Resolutions

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-25/how-to-keep-new-years-resolutions-make-them-in-august#r=hpt-ls

Wall Street Journal: Resolutions: So Irresistible, So Hard to Keep

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324407504578185300898276768.html

Matador Network: How to Map 2013 to be the Biggest Year of Your Life

http://matadornetwork.com/life/how-to-map-2013-to-be-the-biggest-year-of-your-life/

The Hungry Camel

https://www.kidscodecs.com/the-hungry-camel-math-problem/

Camel at the top of Cribyn, WaterAid Corbett Challenge

http://humphreythecamel.org/camel-diary/camel-at-the-top-of-cribyn-wateraid-corbett-challenge/

What is a High Level Language?

https://www.kidscodecs.com/high-level-language/

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High Level Programming Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language

Abstraction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)

First Generation Programming Languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-generation_programming_language

Assembly Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

A List of Programming Languages by Generation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programming_languages

The History of Programming Languages

http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/HistoryofProgrammingLanguages.htm
http://www.levenez.com/lang/
http://visual.ly/history-programming-languages

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Comments

https://www.kidscodecs.com/comments/

Haskell

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reference_card#Comments

Lua

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua_Programming/How_to_Lua/comment
http://www.lua.org/pil/1.3.html

PHP

http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php

Python

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#comments

Comments in Programming Languages

http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/comments.html

Comparison of Programming Language Syntax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_%28syntax%29#Comments

Take Out the Garbage

https://www.kidscodecs.com/take-out-the-garbage/

Definition of Memory Management

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/memory-management

Definition of Memory Leak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

Definition of Garbage Collection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_science%29

Is Memory Management in Programming Becoming an Irrelevant Concern?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/189542/is-memory-management-in-programming-becoming-an-irrelevant-concern

The Garbage Collection Page (Richard Jones)

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gc.html

GC-LIST Garbage Collection FAQ

http://www.iecc.com/gclist/GC-faq.html

Go

https://www.kidscodecs.com/go

Go

http://golang.org/
http://golang.org/project/
http://tour.golang.org/#1
http://golang.org/help/
http://golang.org/doc/
http://golang.org/ref/spec
http://golang.org/doc/code.html
http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
http://golang.org/pkg/
http://blog.golang.org/
https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUserGroups

FAQ

http://golang.org/doc/faq

Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

An Overview of the Go Programming Language in Five Examples

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1714100

“My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/my-favorite-programming-language-googles-go-has-some-coders-raving/

Go: A Nice Language with an Annoying Personality

http://corte.si/posts/code/go/go-rant.html

Go Search Engine

go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search

Go Projects on Github

https://github.com/garyburd/gddo
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/?repo=tools#hg%2Fcmd%2Fgodoc
https://github.com/golang/groupcache
https://github.com/youtube/vitess

Gorilla Web Toolkit

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Revel Framework

http://robfig.github.io/revel/

Renee French

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html
http://www.reneefrench.com/

Ravin Rabbids

http://rabbids.ubi.com/bwaaah/en-US/home/index.aspx

People: Siblings Pete and Alexa Ingram-Cauchi Talk about iD Tech and Tech Summer Camps

https://www.kidscodecs.com/interview-with-peter-ingram-cauchi-and-alexa/

iDTech

http://www.idtech.com/
http://www.idtech.com/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/computercamps

Help Kids Code Resources: Technology Summer Camps

https://www.kidscodecs.com/resources/technology-summer-camps-kids/

People: Boone Gorges

https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-boone-gorges/

Teleogistic

http://teleogistic.net/
http://boone.gorg.es/
https://twitter.com/boone
http://teleogistic.net/2012/09/wordpress-in-education-meet-the-free-software-community-and-vice-versa/
http://teleogistic.net/2011/09/i-develop-free-software-because-of-cuny-and-blackboard/

CUNY Academic Commons

http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/

BuddyPress

http://buddypress.org/

Commons in a Box (CBOX)

CBOX takes the complexity out of creating a Commons site, helping organizations create an online space where their members can discuss issues, collaborate on projects, and share their work.
http://commonsinabox.org/

Participad

Real time collaboration for WordPress.
http://participad.org/
http://teleogistic.net/tag/participad/

Anthologize

Use the power of WordPress to transform online content into an electronic book.
http://anthologize.org/
http://teleogistic.net/tag/anthologize/

That Camp

http://thatcamp.org/about/

bin, boot, opt, and other Linux File System Hierarchy Mysteries

https://www.kidscodecs.com/bin-boot-opt-linux-mysteries/

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The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Linux Directory Structure

http://www.howtogeek.com/117435/htg-explains-the-linux-directory-structure-explained/

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Off Beat: How to Translate Gobbledygook to English

https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-to-translate-gobbledygook-to-english/

The WordPress Email/Post

http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/09/13/javascript-unit-tests-for-core/
http://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/tests/qunit/index.html#L13

QUnit

http://qunitjs.com/
http://qunitjs.com/cookbook/

Unit Tests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit-testing

WordPress and Subversion

http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/svn/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion

WordPress and Github

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress
http://myprogrammingblog.com/2012/01/20/github-how-clone-github-repo-how-to-push-to-github-how-to-get-files-from-github-ubuntu/
http://scribu.net/wordpress/contributing-to-wordpress-using-github.html

Last Words: Imposters and Kids Who Can’t Code

https://www.kidscodecs.com/imposters-and-kids-who-cant-code/

The Myth of ‘I Can’t Code’

http://stephaniehoh.github.io/blog/2013/11/06/the-myth-of-i-cant-code/
http://blog.flatironschool.com/post/66383520349/the-myth-of-i-cant-code

Language of the Month: Go

https://www.kidscodecs.com/go/

Help Kids Code News Wire

https://www.kidscodecs.com/wire/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/wire/people/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/wire/sources/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/wire/date-archives/