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An Interview with Susan Kare
https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-susan-kare/
Susan Kare
http://www.kare.com/
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the-artist-who-gave-computing-a-human-face/
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacPaint_Gallery.txt
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?name=Macintosh&characters=Susan%20Kare
http://www.kare.com/about/bio.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare
Scott McCloud
http://scottmccloud.com/
http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html
http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/index.html
User Experience Designers
https://www.kidscodecs.com/user-experience-designers/
User Experience Professional Organizations
User Experience (UX) Blogs and Magazines
http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/uxmagazine/
http://uxmag.com/
http://boxesandarrows.com/
http://theuxworkshop.tv/
http://theuxreview.co.uk/
https://medium.com/design-ux
UX on Twitter
The usual suspects plus a few interesting people and groups. This list only scratches the surface, however.
https://twitter.com/vitamintalent/user-experience-ux/members
https://twitter.com/ux_club/ux-club/members
https://twitter.com/NNgroup
https://twitter.com/jnd1er
https://twitter.com/jmspool
https://twitter.com/UXPA_Int
https://twitter.com/boxesandarrows
https://twitter.com/AdaptivePath
https://twitter.com/jjg
https://twitter.com/brandonschauer
https://twitter.com/cwodtke
https://twitter.com/cooper
https://twitter.com/MrAlanCooper
https://twitter.com/kimgoodwin
https://twitter.com/indiyoung
https://twitter.com/morville
https://twitter.com/louisrosenfeld
https://twitter.com/karlfast
https://twitter.com/stephenanderson
https://twitter.com/BogieZero
https://twitter.com/danachis
https://twitter.com/whitneyq
https://twitter.com/steveportigal
https://twitter.com/austingovella
https://twitter.com/jboogie
https://twitter.com/jseiden
https://twitter.com/semanticwill
https://twitter.com/JonFoxUX
https://twitter.com/jessmcmullin
https://twitter.com/ux4good
https://twitter.com/userfocus
https://twitter.com/humanfactors
https://twitter.com/MeasuringU
https://twitter.com/uxfeeds
https://twitter.com/uxfactory
https://twitter.com/uxlinks
User Experience Designers Tools
Here are a few tools and services. There are many others, of course, depending on your project and situation.
http://survs.com/
http://www.axure.com/
http://balsamiq.com/
http://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/
http://www.evernote.com
Personas
http://www.measuringusability.com/blog/personas-ux.php
http://www.ux-lady.com/introduction-to-user-personas/
http://theuxreview.co.uk/personas-the-beginners-guide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_%28user_experience%29
https://medium.com/design-ux/2e32c8306112 (Archetypes not personas)
Communities
Summer 2014 Code and Technology Camps
https://www.kidscodecs.com/summer-2014-technology-camps/
Help Kids Code Technology Summer Camps
https://www.kidscodecs.com/resources/technology-summer-camps-kids/
iD Tech
http://www.internaldrive.com/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/interview-with-peter-ingram-cauchi-and-alexa/
Tech Kids Unlimited
http://www.techkidsunlimited.org/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/an-interview-with-beth-rosenberg/
Digital Media Academy
http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/
Emagination Computer Camps
Relational and NoSQL Database Design Overview
https://www.kidscodecs.com/database-design/
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Introduction to Relational (SQL) Databases
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/1234/relational-database-rdb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
Introduction to NoSQL Databases
http://www.mongodb.com/learn/nosql
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/27689/nosql-database
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/25218/non-relational-database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
10 Useful Articles on Database Design
While an old article, many of the points still pertain. Focus is on relational databases.
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/09/10-useful-articles-about-database.html
Database Design Basics
Microsoft’s take on designing Access relational databases.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/database-design-basics-HA001224247.aspx
Database Design (Wikipedia)
Written mostly from a relational database viewpoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_design
Data Models
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/6762/database-model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_model
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/
Designing NoSQL DBs
http://www.servicestack.net/docs/redis-client/designing-nosql-database
Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence
An extensive Microsoft tutorial to show how to combine relational and NoSQL databases in a single application.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn271399.aspx
Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
While her title is overwrought, and inaccurate, this is a great description how people model data in the real world and how they work with technology. It also shows how non-relational databases are still young technology with limitations compared to older SQL databases which have a few decades of evolution and iteration behind them. Comments on this article also are interesting.
http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/
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Database Normalization
https://www.kidscodecs.com/database-normalization/
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Database Normalization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283878
http://www.dbnormalization.com/
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm
Introduction to Relational (SQL) Databases
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/1234/relational-database-rdb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
Introduction to NoSQL Databases
http://www.mongodb.com/learn/nosql
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/27689/nosql-database
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/25218/non-relational-database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
E.F. Codd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_12_rules
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What is Information Architecture?
https://www.kidscodecs.com/information-architecture-design/
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Information Architecture Defined
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture
http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/resources/what_is_ia.php
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/information_architecture_tutorial/
http://journalofia.org/volume3/issue2/03-resmini/
http://www.lynda.com/Web-User-Experience-tutorials/Foundations-UX-Information-Architecture/122427-2.html
IA Professional Organizations
Publications
https://twitter.com/boxesandarrows
http://journalofia.org/
A/B Testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/24/the-ultimate-guide-to-a-b-testing/
Card Sorting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sorting
Tree Testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_testing
http://www.measuringusability.com/blog/tree-testing-ia.php
Cognitive Psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/cogpsych.htm
Semiotics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem01.html
Measuring the Success Of a Classification System
Describes card sorting process but in a way that offers insight into how information architects work.
http://boxesandarrows.com/measuring-the-success-of-a-classification-system/
Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices
https://twitter.com/iainstitute
https://twitter.com/danklyn
https://twitter.com/resmini
https://twitter.com/Abby_the_IA
https://twitter.com/austingovella
https://twitter.com/helpkidscode/lists/information-architects
https://twitter.com/helpkidscode/information-architects/members
Taxonomy and Folksonomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
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A Short History of Lorem Ipsum
https://www.kidscodecs.com/a-short-history-of-lorem-ipsum/
Lorem Ipsum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipsum
Lorem Ipsum Generators
http://www.lipsum.com/
http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info/
http://www.ipsum-generator.com/
http://mashable.com/2013/07/11/lorem-ipsum/
Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum
http://books.google.com/books?id=C0ZuoEMeeeAC&dq
How to Create Color Palettes
https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-to-create-color-palettes/
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Color Theory for Designers
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/02/color-theory-for-designers-part-2-understanding-concepts-and-terminology/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/08/color-theory-for-designer-part-3-creating-your-own-color-palettes/
Practical Approach to Creating a Color Scheme
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/website-color-scheme/
3 Time-Tested Ways To Pick The Perfect Website Color Combination
http://blog.crazyegg.com/2011/12/30/pick-website-color-combination/
http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/07/11/website-color-palettes/
Selecting Your Own Color Scheme
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/design-theory/selecting-your-own-color-scheme/
True Colors: What Your Brand Colors Say About Your Business? (Infographic)
Color Generators
https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
http://colorschemer.com/
http://www.colourlovers.com/photocopa
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
http://mobile.colorotate.org/
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docstrings
https://www.kidscodecs.com/docstrings/
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docstrings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docstring
docstrings in Python
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest
http://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.python/DfzH5Nrt05E/Yyd3s7fPVxwJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pydoc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_%28documentation_generator%29
http://sphinx-doc.org/
Elixir
Clojure
Markdown Syntax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Documentation Generators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_generators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epydoc
http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/
Documentation from docstrings in Multiple Languages
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
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Interface Design Basics
https://www.kidscodecs.com/interface-design-basics/
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CS Unplugged: Human Interface Design (The Chocolate Factory)
http://csunplugged.org/human-interface-design
Common Ground: A Pattern Language for Human-Computer Interface Design
http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/docs/idguide/
Human Computer Interaction (Coursera class)
https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
Open Classroom: Human Computer Interaction Design
http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=HCI
Don Norman: Designing for People
Affordances
http://youtu.be/NK1Zb_5VxuM
http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/foundations-of-affordances/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
Affordance Photo Search on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=affordances&l=commderiv&ss=0&ct=0&mt=photos&w=all&adv=1
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Fizz-Buzz and Other Odd Questions
https://www.kidscodecs.com/fizz-buzz-and-puzzle-questions/
Manhole Covers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover
http://www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]/
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle
http://books.google.com/books?id=hojAaIwFn9YC&printsec=frontcover
Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding
http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/
How to Interview for Programming Jobs
http://www.kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers-program.html
http://www.codeslate.com/2007/01/you-dont-bury-survivors.html
http://readwrite.com/2008/07/22/top_10_concepts_that_every_software_engineer_should_know
How to Build a (Simple) Website
https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-to-build-a-simple-website/
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W3 Schools
While there are many online HTML reference sites, this one makes it easy to practice HTML.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/
HTML Help by the Web Design Group
This site is a little ancient but it includes prior versions of HTML, if that is useful.
http://htmlhelp.com/
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JavaScript
https://www.kidscodecs.com/javascript/
JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/About_JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA_Script
Object Oriented JavaScript Reference Card
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/object-oriented-javascript
JavaScript Turns 18
resin.io/happy-18th-birthday-javascript/
Off Beat: Snow shoes versus Cross Country Skiing
https://www.kidscodecs.com/snowshoes-versus-cross-country-skiing/
Snow Shoe Videos
Which is better, snow shoes or cross country skis?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zDK6INAmas
Extreme Snow Shoeing
http://www.youtube.com/embed/F7b96bQfnjE
Learn How to Snow Shoe
http://www.snowshoemag.com/first-timers/
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bIylS8VFGcg
Learn How to Cross Country Ski
http://www.youtube.com/embed/p_HihVl7QKw
Best Places to Snow Shoe or Cross Country Ski?
http://matadornetwork.com/trips/10-places-to-snowshoe-in-north-america/
http://www.xcski.org/
Which Burns More Calories?
http://snowshoes.com/learn/40?category=8
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/12/get-a-better-winter-workout/index.htm
Snow Shoe Racing (Seriously)
http://www.snowshoeracing.com/
The DailyTekk.com 2012 List of Lists
http://dailytekk.com/2013/01/08/the-ultimate-life-hack-2013-200-life-enhancing-sites-services/
Last Words: What is Design?
https://www.kidscodecs.com/what-is-design/
Learning to See
http://ia.net/blog/learning-to-see/
Design Axioms
A great list with short explanations.
http://www.mit.edu/~juhan/design_axioms.html
7 Design Principles, Inspired by Zen Wisdom
And feel free to challenge and ignore every one of these… Simplicity can be an overrated fetish.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671947/7-design-principles-inspired-by-zen-wisdom
Designing User Interfaces for Your Mother
https://medium.com/design-ux/dd45ec50f7b0
The Dribblisation of Design
http://insideintercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/
Why Subtraction is the Hardest Math in Product Design
Also In The February 2014 Issue

Summer 2014 Code and Technology Camps
It may be the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere but now might be a great time to start thinking about technology summer camps if you're a kid or have kids.

An Interview with Susan Kare
You’ve looked at and used Susan Kare’s work, or work inspired by hers, every time you use a computer. The garbage can icon and other taken for granted icons can be traced back to Kare’s icons on the first Macintosh computers.

User Experience Designers
User experience design touches on all the ways people interact with software or hardware. This includes how people use technology, the hardware design, and documentation.

Database Design
How you store and retrieve data in a relational or NoSQL database depends on how well you design the database structure.

How to Create Color Palettes
Here are several ways to create a color palette that looks professional for web sites and interfaces. It's not as easy as you might think.

Fizz-Buzz and Other Odd Questions
There are at least two types of questions coders might face in job interviews, fizz-buzz and puzzle questions. Both can be learned ahead of time.

Interface Design Basics
Interfaces are the primary way people work with computers and websites. Here are concepts used to design human interactions with computers.

A Short History of Lorem Ipsum
No discussion of design is complete without the history of lorem ipsum. It's more than placeholder text you stuff into a visual design.

docstrings
Docstrings are special comments embedded in software code that survive compiling the code, for example, help text.

Database Normalization
Relational databases need to have their data organized a certain way.

What is Information Architecture?
When you think of architecture, you think buildings not information. However, information also needs careful design and structure in computing.

JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language and an historical artifact from the early internet conflicts between Netscape, Microsoft, and Sun for open standards.

News Wire Stories for February 2014
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the months of December 2013 and January 2014. More stories can be found at the News Wire link at the top of of this site.

How to Build a (Simple) Website
Here is the simplest possible way to learn how to build a website, as well as how web pages and websites work.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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