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Small Basic is a great little project out of Microsoft’s DevLab that I have been following for a while. It’s a simple, little Basic language and IDE that harkens back to things like Qbasic and GBBasic and other early versions of BASIC that many of us
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As I put this summary together I’m just about ready to head to Redmond WA by way of Seattle in the morning. Early in the morning. Even earlier than my wife gets up to go to school. It’s my first trip to the Microsoft headquarters area in over
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Last week was NECC and boy was I ever busy. On the other hand the places on the Internet were slow in some ways and busy in others. The education Twitter space was all NECC all the time. Many education bloggers were not blogging because they were just
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Filed under: Visual Basic, C#, C++, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, APCS, education, Programming, Java, DreamSpark, Small Basic
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, CSTA, education, Programming, Alice, history, Small Basic, ACM
CareerForward is a self-contained online course that can help schools prepare students for their work lives and career opportunities in a global economy. This award-winning course can be used with other career planning tools to help students: Assess their
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So I arrived in Austin Monday evening and settled down at my hotel. I’m a short walk from the convention center which I’m pretty pleased about. Today was a sort of pre-conference day for me. That is to say that I didn’t have much assigned work to do.
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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
Well it is a new year. Last year was an interesting year in just too many ways to recount. But we have, in a sense at least, a chance for a fresh start with 2009. I wish my readers all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. But especially happy and
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Talk about a great sample of the week – the Small Basic blog announces a version of the classic Tetris written in Small Basic . At a little over 500 lines of code (530ish) its a pretty cool and yet manageable game program. If you were thinking of writing
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The latest update of Small Basic went live this week. I wrote about Small Basic once before . The latest version includes a list of improvements, additions and bug fixes. See also the Small Basic forums or the Small Basic Blog for more information. At
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I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Computer Science Education, STEM, Game Programming, education, Programming, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, Popfly, Small Basic, middle school
Do you remember the old days of learning how to program with a simple, easy to use, uncomplicated version of BASIC? A lot of people including a lot of teachers (and more than a few professional developers) do. But in general companies are working on more
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