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• Best Way to Teach Programming to Children?

  Asked by arjonesiii : 18 May 2010 - 06:07 AM

  

  Answered by SyntaxC4 : May 18 2010 04:57 PM
  Hello arjonesiii, There is an excellent series that has just kicked off here in Canada at Butterscotch.com. It's called Developer Junior and it's focused on teaching young Developers. It'... full answer >

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  • children
  • teach
  • programming

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• How to Customize WCF Services in SharePoint 2010

  

  By kbnotes : 26 April 2010 - 07:15 AM

  Chris Beckett posted this article on his SharePoint Bits blog recently. He explains how to add custom WCF services in SharePoint 2010. Customizing WCF Services in SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2007 pro...

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  • SharePoint
  • SharePoint 2010
  • SharePoint Foundation
  • Office
  • Office 2010
  • WCF
  • programming
  • web services

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• How Themes Work in SharePoint 2010

  

  By kbnotes : 26 April 2010 - 04:59 AM

  This article by Chris Beckett was posted recently on his SharePoint Bits blog. Chris is also the author of the forthcoming Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Plain & Simple (Microsoft Press). How Them...

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  • SharePoint
  • SharePoint 2010
  • SharePoint Foundation
  • Office
  • Office 2010
  • themes
  • programming

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• Client-Side Programming in SharePoint

  

  By kbnotes : 11 April 2010 - 04:05 AM

  The following excerpt is from the forthcoming Inside Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 by Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, and Scot Hillier: The server-side object model for SharePoint has long been soph...

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  • SharePoint
  • SharePoint 2010
  • SharePoint Foundation
  • Office
  • Office 2010
  • Programming

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• Create a fractal mountain scape with Processing

  

  By odewahn1 : 07 April 2010 - 08:01 AM

  This Answer shows you how to create a fractal mountain scape with Processing. Why, you ask? Well, who doesn't enjoy a good fractal mountain scape now and then? In addition, it's a good way to ...

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  • justforfun
  • processing
  • programming
  • visualization
  • j4f

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• Extend Processing with contributed libraries

  

  By odewahn1 : 06 April 2010 - 12:37 PM

  The base Processing language includes a lot of core functionality. However, there are a number of powerful external libraries that extend the base language in many ways. There are libraries for creati...

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  • processing
  • programming
  • visualization

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• iPad-friendly browser-based programming environments?

  

  By bjepson : 04 April 2010 - 04:44 PM

  Back when the iPad was announced, my friend Morgan and I talked about a concern some people have with the iPad. Because you can't program right on the iPad, we run the risk of depriving kids of wh...

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  • tinkering
  • hacking
  • ipad
  • programming

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• How to check the status of the network connection from your iPhone App

  

  By Alasdair Allan : 22 March 2010 - 03:46 AM

  Before your application attempts to make a network connection you need to know whether you have a network available, and depending on what you want to do you might also want...

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  • Network Connection
  • iPhone
  • Programming
  • Objective-C
  • Reachability

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• Put the Mouse Down and Step away from the Keyboard

  

  By BurkHufnagel : 17 March 2010 - 07:10 PM

  You've been focused for hours on some gnarly problem and there's no solution in sight. So you get up to stretch your legs, or to hit the vending machines, and on the way back the answer sudden...

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  • regular expressions
  • excerpt
  • 97 things
  • programming

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• What do you look for in an ORM?

  Asked by KBenson : 17 March 2010 - 02:16 PM

  

  Answered by monkeyvegas : Mar 18 2010 01:21 AM
  While I would dispute the need for another Perl ORM (what with Fey[::ORM], DBIx::Class, DBIx::DataModel, Class::DBI, ORLite, etc, etc), here are a few things I would need: * Automatic Class generatio... full answer >

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  • perl
  • programming
  • ORM

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