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Filed under: Robotics, Computer Science Education, CSTA, Careers, Game Programming, education, fun, Conferences, Education Technology, Popfly, Ethics, blogs, Windows7
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, CSTA, education, Programming, Alice, history, Small Basic, ACM
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I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some new things. Some things have new addresses. And the order of things changes for the audience. This list is from
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, C#, Computer Science Education, Microsoft, Visual Studio, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, DreamSpark, Small Basic
It all started when I saw a link to this article about students creating videos to show others how to cheat . These young people don’t see anything wrong with cheating or helping others to cheat. Oh they understand that their teachers don’t like it but
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Microsoft Press is celebrating their 25th Anniversary with some free e-books. Two that may be interesting to educators are one on MS Robotics Studio and one on Visual Studio 2008 . These offers expire on October 22nd so act now. And tell others who could
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Found a few good nuggets to share with people. Robots If you are in to robots or know someone who is I saw this announcement from the Microsoft Robotics team blog . The RoboChamps Amazed Challenge is over and the winners have been announced. However,
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Filed under: Robotics, Computer Science Education, CSTA, Professional Development, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, Popfly, blogs
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digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/25/robochamps-online-virtual-robot-competition.aspx'; Most robotic competitions are fairly expensive to enter. The hardware is expensive, hard to assemble and tends to break at the worst possible
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The laws of unintended consequences seem to live in computer science and software development. Most good software products seem to wind up being used in unexpected ways. More than that one thing seems to always lead to another and not always in expected
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Dean Kamen is probably best known either for FIRST Robotics or for inventing the Segway device. But he has invented a lot more than that and his robotic arm is showing some amazing potential to replace human limbs. He's also got an invention that creates
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I see that IPRE ( Institute for Personal Robotics in Education ) is running a pair of faculty workshops this summer. We're offering two IPRE Summer Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshops ( K-12 teachers also invited! ). In these workshops we will
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It looks like Maker Faire is starting to ramp up for this coming May. I'm trying to see if I can justify a trip out to California for it this year. Last year a couple of my friends worked the event showing off some really cool stuff and had a great time.
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I would imagine that a lot of people are looking for interesting things to do with brand new computers this week. Some people are (I hope) looking for ways to teach young people about programming. Or perhaps you are looking for your self regardless of
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