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To help students start new software projects without breaking the bank, GitHub, Bitnami, Crowdflower, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, HackHands, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screenhero, SendGrid, Stripe, Travis CI and Epic Game’s Unreal Engine are launching the GitHub Student Developer Pack, a new program to give students free access to their tools. Time to polish up that student card
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If you ask a typical 10-year-old today what’s inside her computer, or how the software is created, she’s likely to be baffled. Good. Put the little beggars to work.
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1. Kano is a Raspberry PI, it is not "build your own computer". It's little more than "plug the keyboard into the port."
2. A lot of programmers have no idea either, I've discovered.
Marc
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That's what I was thinking also, with maybe an Basic interpreter on board for the teach em part.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Marc Clifton wrote: 2. A lot of programmers have no idea either, I've discovered.
Dust. Mine has dust.
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Start them off with Snap Circuits and littleBits first.
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So it's a very small, see-through base unit.
Kids learn as much about building PCs by pugging 'phones into their MP3 players.
How much would it cost nowadays to produce machines as powerful as the Sinclair Speccy, the BBC Micro, the Amstrad 464, or the Commodore 64?
A tenner, maybe?
Those have proven themselves as learning resources.
!Wheel.Reinvent
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How much would it cost nowadays to produce machines as powerful as the Sinclair Speccy, the BBC Micro, the Amstrad 464, or the Commodore 64?
Good point. Those would definitely be incredibly cheap these days, and look at the folk they started down this dark path. I think they did fairly well.
TTFN - Kent
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Windows 10 is a key part of Microsoft's plan to be more of an Internet of things player. The catch is that few people see Microsoft putting the pieces together. As long as your 'thing' has 16GB of disk space, 1GB of RAM, and a DirectX 9 compatible video card.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As long as your 'thing' has 16GB of disk space, 1GB of RAM, and a DirectX 9 compatible video card.
Exactly!
And they're licensing is to complicated so they'll streamline it so that you can dig just as deep in your pocket but they'll just call it something different.
I don't see them taking the lead in this as there are too many open source projects that are just waiting to take the lead and opening new areas every day. I think maybe they think they can be the backbone of the IoT but I also think that Linux is going to make a surge in this area and take a lot of their market share.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Microsoft CEO Nadella wrote: Windows 10 is an IoT play too
Is that short for ID10T play?
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Do you know smart machines, robotics and risk analysis? Gartner says you should. "Perhaps I'll get a chance to look ahead and see, soon as I find myself a crystal ball"
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Quote: How much change? Well Gartner says by 2018, digital business requires 50% less business process workers and 500% more key digital business jobs, compared to traditional models
I hope they mean 50% fewer workers, or are we proposing lopping limbs off them?
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Don't bring it up with management: you might not like the answer. It would reduce the traffic in the coffee room.
TTFN - Kent
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Are you saying that 50 is not less than 100?
That "rule of English" has never been a rule of English -- the only thing in its favour is that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever (otherwise I'd really hate it).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cooperative Apps can instantly share data with other applications in the cloud, without placing an integration burden on the business or user who purchased the app. They work seamlessly with the other apps fitting within their solution space. Cooperative Apps “play nice” with other applications. They share data and seamlessly communicate with other applications just the way you want them to. Cooperative Apps reduce the need for Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offerings originally developed prior to the cloud era of API-based services and applications. If only there were universal manuals on cooperating and playing nicely....
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The first one in the space makes the rules.
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Have you ever wanted to create a game -- but not deal with the coding aspects? Then Microsoft's Project Spark might be for you. It has finally come out of its six month beta, and is available in the Windows Store and Xbox One store, as well as retail stores. "The game's afoot!"
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I played with this in Beta - its quite a lot of fun, and the "IDE" for programming behaviours is pretty cool too...sort of what LightSwitch should aim towards 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The game's afoot!"
Nice quote! Does Chris know you have a foot fetish?
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Check Point finds a Perl programming language problem that bites the popular bug-tracker. Bugs in the bug tracker? Is that to give you a sample?
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According to former Netflix cloud chief and current Battery Ventures Technology fellow Adrian Cockroft, you need to help to make your developers be more productive. Which mostly means you need to get the heck out of their way. Coddling: to cook in water below the boiling point.
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Billed as a JavaScript rival, Dart has had an uphill climb in its battle to attract developers. But this month's Tiobe Index of language popularity has Dart finally cracking its top 20 list, ranking 17th with a rating of 1.119 percent, slightly behind Ruby but ahead of Microsoft's F# language and Apple's new Swift language. And here I thought Forth was going to make a comeback
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