Category Archives: language

squeakland : home of squeak etoys

Posted on March 24, 2013 by jdioguardi

Etoys is . . . an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system a free software program that works on almost all personal computers continue reading- squeakland : home of … Continue reading →

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What Is NI LabVIEW? – National Instruments

Posted on March 22, 2013 by jdioguardi

LabVIEW is a highly productive development environment that engineers and scientists use for graphical programming and unprecedented hardware integration to rapidly design and deploy measurement and control systems. Within this flexible platform, engineers scale from design to test and from … Continue reading →

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Tynker

Posted on March 14, 2013 by jdioguardi

 Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch from MIT. It is a completely browser-based implementation written using Open Web standards … Continue reading →

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Inform

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jdioguardi

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s … Continue reading →

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Lua

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jdioguardi

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and … Continue reading →

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Making Games in the Classroom with Scratch – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jdioguardi

I’ve discussed the potential value of learning some scripting for any major in the past, and President Obama recently called for more of a focus on making sure students know “how to actually produce stuff” with computers, citing game design … Continue reading →

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Kinect2Scratch

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jdioguardi

Kinect2Scratch allows data from the Microsoft Kinect controller be sent to Scratch, the programming language for kids from the MIT Media Laboratory. This means that anyone can write programs with motion control, use gestures, make kinetic games and generally leap … Continue reading →

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ComputerCraft 1.5

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jdioguardi

ComputerCraft is a Minecraft mod with full multiplayer support that adds in-game Computers. Each Computer has an operating system, a filesystem, a suite of builtin programs including a text editor, a realtime Lua interpreter, and two games), and can be … Continue reading →

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Processing.js

Posted on March 9, 2013 by jdioguardi

Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, designed for the web. Processing.js makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins. You write … Continue reading →

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