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Boy scratches Python…

Posted in Python, education, programming, tagged , on July 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’ve written before about Scratch, a teaching platform developed by MIT to introduce kids to the art of programming. My son has been playing around with Scratch for over a year and although he still enjoys it, he’s showing signs of needing to move to the next level, a ‘real’ programming language.  I decided that [...]

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Take Mind Mapping offline with Google Gears

Posted in GoogleApps, SQLite, Web2.0, education, tagged , on November 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been a long time fan of mind maps (the pencil and paper type) and have also occasionally used the excellent and free computer based FreeMind to good effect. Over the last year or so a number of online mind mapping tools have appeared and I see that one of the better ones, www.mindmeister.com, [...]

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Google Reader - KM killer app

Posted in GoogleApps, KM, education, tagged , on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve mentioned before my delight at the new search facility within Google Reader, while regretting that del.icio.us didn’t offer the same facility. Now I find, through Google Reader Search, I already have something more useful, a personalised search engine that searches not just my blog subscriptions’ contents but my also my del.icio.us bookmarks’ meta [...]

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JavaScript 101

Posted in JavaScript, education, programming on May 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In a previous post I explained why I had decided to improve my JavaScript skills. The problem was finding a decent reference book as the ones I had looked at where amongst the worst technical books I had ever encountered; then I found this series of lectures by Douglas Crawford. Not only are the [...]

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets Help

Posted in GAFyD, education, excel, tagged on April 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Most of the discussions about Google D&S tend to frame the conversation in relation to MS Office assuming prior knowledge of the likes of Excel and Word. But my wife, an IT Coach, is finding that more and more people who are drawn to first-time use of computers because of a wish to access [...]

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HacketyHack from WhyTheLuckyStiff

Posted in Ruby, education, news on April 26, 2007 | No Comments »

No it’s not a tip for the 5.50 at Punchestown it’s the latest project from _why (a legend in the world of Ruby, if a language as young as Ruby can have legends). HacketyHack is a framework to teach kids how to program, built using Ruby and the gekco browser engine, it’s free [...]

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Build your own Bebo

Posted in Web2.0, education, news, tagged , on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

I see that Ning (co-founded by Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame) has settled on a revenue model. Ning allows anybody to create their own social network site (think Bebo, MySpace, if you don’t know what I’m talking about just grab any 17 year old and ask). The resulting networks can be either public or [...]

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Want your kids to have the programming itch, then Scratch it!

Posted in Ruby, education, excel, programming on February 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Having looked in the past for a suitable introduction to programming for my 10 year old son I had come to the conclusion that the existing options (such as KPL) where too ‘wordy’ and not able to compete with the point and click powered online/gaming worlds that youngsters now inhabit. That was until [...]

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