Get them coding with Tic-80

Get them coding with Tic-80

TIC-80 is a fantasy computer, patterned after retro computers from the 80s. I’ve mentioned PICO-8 before, and if you have used it, then TIC-80 will feel right at home. The big advantage of TIC-80 over PICO-8 is that TIC-80 is completely usable in the browser. That means it will run on anything with a browser,…

Replacing the Foreign Language Graduation Requirement with Programming

Replacing the Foreign Language Graduation Requirement with Programming

Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school. A similar bill passed the Florida State Senate in 2017 (but was ultimately rejected by the full Legislature), and a federal version proposed by Senators Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, and Maria Cantwell, Democrat…

Scratch 3.0 is released today!

Scratch 3.0 is released today!

Scratch 3.0 is released today! Source: 3 Things To Know About Scratch 3.0 – The Scratch Team Blog – Medium Scratch 3.0 is scheduled to be released this afternoon! Scratch is an online programming development environment that uses multicolored blocks instead of code. The new version is tablet friendly, discarding Flash which makes Scratch usable on iPads for the first…

Coding and the brain

Coding and the brain

It’s true: programmers think differently than everyone else. Not to say that programmers are necessarily smarter, more logical, or more rational than everyone else, as is commonly said. But scientists have recently started studying the brains of programmers and have come to some interesting conclusions. Source: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to…