Contagious Curiosity

I recently talked with Dave Nielson from CloudCamp on the topic of ‘Big Data’ on the Windows Azure platform – enjoy!

Enjoy this short video of Orange County, CA teacher Lisa Martin talking about her class of high school students at a recent TKP event.

We’ve been making short videos on how to teach the parts of each recipe.  Not all recipes are complete, but we are working on it… Each recipe consists of the following parts and key components (for teachers): *) Setup – teachers should pair students...

Here’s the deck from my presentation at ‘24 Hours of SQL Pass’. 24 Hours of SQL Pass - SQL Azure View more presentations from Lynn Langit . To try out SQL Azure with no credit card, no hassle, 30 days – use this code DPWE02 The Twitter parser source code...

Here’s my deck from today’s presentation at the Cloud Intelligence Conference in Anaheim, CA – enjoy! Windows Azure Tools for Developers View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

Llewellyn and I are quite interested in best practices around education in general (as we continue to develop our TKP courseware and teaching methods).  Lately we’ve been struck by several presentations about the use of YouTube for education. The...

Llewellyn and Bart got together to write the first pass at koans for Rx last night. We published the result on CodePlex today - here . What's a koan? It's an interactive excercise, using the lanaguage (features) and done in the editor to learn without...

We are frequently asked, ‘Just what are you guys doing now?’ about our work Teaching Kids Programming.  Enjoy this short video update! Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted...

Presentation scheduled for March 16 at 11pm PST.  The complete virtual conference session list is here .  Here’s the deck – enjoy Twitter Data on SQL Azure for 24 Hours of SQL Pass 2011 View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

Here’s my deck for SharePoint Saturday San Diego.  I’ll be speaking on SPS BCS there this Saturday – enjoy! If you can’t make it to San Diego this Saturday, then join me for this same talk as part of the MSDN SharePoint Developer event at the Microsoft...

We taught the first of our new, weekly events at the Microsoft office in Irvine, CA today.  The high school group coded up two SmallBasic recipes.  Here’s a video of how the day went.

No credit card, no hassle, 30 days – use this code DPWE01 Here’s the link – Enjoy!

Here’s the deck – enjoy! SQL Azure for SoCalCodCamp View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

I uploaded a deck (with recordings) on ways to engage the developer community to work with local educators to teach kids programming – enjoy! Developers and Educators - Teaching Kids Programming View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

I participated in my first CodeRetreat in PHX recently. I had way more fun than I expected to and it was a safe environment for me to learn new languages. I really liked getting to pair with skilled developers who travelled from as far away as Mexico...

I bought a new laptop with my own money last week – the first time I’d purchased a laptop since I joined Microsoft nearly 4 years ago.  What did I plunk down a little over $ 1500 for?  A MacBook Air . What did I buy? A MacBook Air, 11” with...

Last night I attended and spoke at the second (annual?) CloudCampLA unConference in Manhattan Beach, CA. What are CloudCamps? Dave Nielsen , from San Jose, CA leads a group which organizes and hosts CloudCamp unConferences world-wide .  They are...

  Finally, a neat way to use Twitter Lists!  I created a ‘newspaper’ from my @llangit\WomenWhoTech list on a new site called ‘ Paper.li’ .  I am really liking the format.  You can also create your own free, customized ‘newspapers’...

Yes, you read that right.  Here’s what we use (and it works!) – “Query to find ‘hot’ boys”.  We created and ran this class last year (at DigiGirlz) and we wanted to share it with you.  Teach a teen-aged girl to code! All the setup instructions...

When I think of 2010, I think of people who inspire me.  These people are exceptional, they constantly amaze and delight me.  I thought it might be nice to share them with you. SoCalDevGal’s People to Watch from 2010   10 and 9. ...

Here’s the deck for my talk at University of California, Irvine next week – enjoy! Microsoft Developer Tools NOW for Kids and Adults View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

We are working on our website for TKP ( Teaching Kids Programming ) and YOU can help!  How?  We need to take the content from all the various repositories (YouTube, SlideShare, CodePlex, our own heads, etc…) and get it into a USABLE format....

Happy holidays from my little volunteer group at www.TeachingKidsProgramming.org .  To celebrate the season we’ve written a new recipe for you to share with your kids – teach them to code and make a custom holiday card at the same time! Here’s a...

Here’s the deck Ike Ellis and I will be presenting on Dec 4 in San Diego for the community ‘Day of Azure II’ – enjoy! SQL Azure from Day of Azure II View more presentations from Lynn Langit .

Here’s the video – enjoy! Watch live video from Tech Trends To Watch In 2011 on Justin.tv