Here’s another project that helps kids learn to program using games. It’s interesting that they use the same metaphor as CodeCombat–spellcraft. Contrast CodeSpell’s Java to CodeCombat’s JavaScript. The latter likely offers more utility to kids looking to get into the workforce in a few years. UC San Diego Computer Scientists Develop First-person Player Video Game [...]
Here are a few dev tools I’ve run across this month. csscss by zmoazeni A CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy. Chrome Logger – Server side application debugging Chrome Logger is a Google Chrome extension for debugging server side applications in the Chrome console. Team IM App ‘HipChat’ Gets New Linux Release | OMG! Ubuntu! [...]
This is a good start on an innovative approach to teaching kids how to code. It’s a little buggy as of yet, but you can see the idea will work. CodeCombat Learn programming in glorious strategy game challenges, coding with others in real time to defeat your enemies!
Superhero.js Creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base is not easy — especially since great resources on how to do this are hard to find. This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations we’ve found on the topic.
ISO 8601 was published in 1988. It seems abundantly obvious, yet I am still annoyed repeatedly by files named with whatever pet format the creator likes. Damn it! Name it MyProject-2013-03-08.tar.gz, already! ISO 8601
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