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Imagine you had a pickup truck that you used for work. One day the person in charge of company vehicles says to you “we’re going to replace your pickup truck with a Prius. We’ll be saving money on gas. Isn’t that great?” You of course reply with something
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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
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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
I love codes and ciphers. As a kid I loved to play with simple substitution ciphers. Since I like these sorts of applications anyway I was happy to see at post on the Visual Basic team blog called Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz) I love the story of
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I get inspiration for blog posts from a number of places. Sometimes from Twitter (see yesterday’s post) and sometimes for other blogs. Actually other blogs are a constant and regular source of inspirations. Today’s post was inspired by a Programming Pop
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Why post anything on Thanksgiving? I mean people are all spending time with family or sleeping through football games on TV and generally staying away from the Internet for a couple of days. Well maybe not. I get bored and I don’t watch TV and my wife
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