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Now families with Minecraft-obsessed children have to come up with new ways to accommodate it in their daily lives. Some have banned Minecraft on school days. (If Minecraft becomes part of lessons, they’ll have to adapt, I suppose.) Others have put time limits on its use each day. (A much trickier strategy than time-limiting TV…
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But given that the number and variety of digital options will only increase, wouldn’t it be more productive to explore how we can effectively transform media consumption into quality family time? What if we viewed the digital deluge as a new opportunity to tap into the potential of interactive technologies to help reunite generations in…
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Yet the entirety of his performance was a stunning example of grit and power – made all the more intense by what happened when it was over. It was then that the victor and favorite to grab the gold, Grenada’s Kirani James, made his way to Pistorius. The two then hugged, and, in an Olympic…
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The most disastrous thing about programming — to pick one of the 10 most disastrous things about programming — there’s a very popular movement based on pattern languages. When Christopher Alexander first did that in architecture, he was looking at 2,000 years of ways that humans have made themselves comfortable. So there was actually something…
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The most disastrous thing about programming — to pick one of the 10 most disastrous things about programming — there’s a very popular movement based on pattern languages. When Christopher Alexander first did that in architecture, he was looking at 2,000 years of ways that humans have made themselves comfortable. So there was actually something…
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My interest in education is unglamorous. I don’t have an enormous desire to help children, but I have an enormous desire to create better adults. Dr. Dobb’s | Interview with Alan Kay | July 10, 2012 (via paperbits) There is a line that connects SmallTalk, Squeak, Logo, Design By Numbers, Processing, and Scratch. That line…
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Alan Kay Interview on Dr. Dobbs (h/t to Paperbits)
Alan Kay: The prizes aren’t a thing that Dr. Dobb’s worries about, because prizes are mostly for individuals, not for teams that are trying to do serious engineering projects. The dynamics are very different. A lot of people go into computing just because they are uncomfortable with other people. So it is no mean task…
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ruineshumaines: Art Game by Leo Caillard. On Tumblr. “This recent work is a reflection on the problem of our new digital world.Currently, at any stage of its creation, any idea or concept is digitally adapted.What will be retained in the future? What will happen to all of these billions of megabytes we stock on computers?…
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Create a Mobile HTML5 RPG – Tutorial (Python, LimeJs, Text Editor)
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a (very) simple RPG demo that works in all HTML5 supporting platforms, using the Open Source Javascript framework LimeJS. This framework allows you to quickly create simple games that work regardless of the screen resolution of your device (laptop, phone, tv). You can play these games…