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Hopscotch – programming on the iPad for kids

by Andy Polaine on April 18, 2013

in General, Links

Hopscotch iPad App

Hopscotch is a new programming language/environment iPad for kids. I don’t have my iPad here right now, but I’m looking forward to having a go on this. It is probably too advanced for my four year-old daughter still (I’ll have to see how necessary being able to read or write is), but it looks perfect for school-age children. The quote from a child on the website sums it up nicely:

“I like it because it’s fun and you can make the characters do whatever you want and play it like a movie.” – Audrey, age 8

You can make interactive things too, I’m sure.

(Via Jeroen)

Tagged as: Interactive, ipad, kids, programming

Create a one-click expiring link

by Andy Polaine on April 16, 2013

in Links

DeadC.net is a link shortening service with a difference. You can create a URL that can only be clicked upon once.

Of course, it’s only a re-direct, so someone can always copy the redirected URL, but useful for quickly sharing things "without being tracked," as the site says.

In many ways, this is horribly wrong, because it breaks the fundamental principle of avoiding dead links on the Web, but that’s the idea I suppose.

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Draft. Write Better.

April 15, 2013

Draft is a way for writers to collaborate online writing in Markdown with version control. It’s very straightforward so far, which is probably a good way to roll. Export doesn’t seem to be working for me at the moment, but the plan appears to be to export to Dropbox et al and keep things in [...]

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No-rage CSS layout

March 18, 2013

Learn Layout is a great little site. I can code HTML and CSS, but not brilliantly and I don’t have to do it that often. When I do, I always have to re-cap on the latest developments. This tutorial site is just what I need: I assume you already know what selectors, properties, and values [...]

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Service Design: From Insight to Implementation is here!

March 13, 2013

I’m extremely happy to announce that our book, Service Design: From Insight to Implementation, was officially published today. I wrote a welcome post about it over on the book’s home at Rosenfeld Media. If you feel like tweeting or blogging about it, that would be great. What really helps is a quick review on Amazon.com [...]

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O’Reilly Webcast: Designing cross-channel service experiences

February 21, 2013

A quick cross-post from our Rosenfeld Media book blog. Ben, Lavrans and I are going to be doing (giving? What does one say…?) an O’Reilly Webcast titled Service Design: Designing cross-channel service experiences on Wednesday 14th March. It’s my daughter’s birthday, so it’s an auspicious date. The O’Reilly site has all the details and where [...]

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Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations

February 19, 2013

Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations is an absolutely brilliant, detailed round-up by Blair Neal (@laserpilot). I recently had to do some research into this for a project proposal and it took me hours of web-scouring and asking friends for this information. Bookmark it for future reference!

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Students, Ideas & Prototyping

December 2, 2012

While perusing Nicolas Nova’s post on Prototyping session with post-its and cardboard at EPFL I followed his link to Stickers on Boxes, a “prototyping tool for generating objects that communicate concepts quickly & simply,” created by Anvil. Looks like a great approach. The other day Nicolas and I were both bemoaning the fact that our [...]

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Marco on The Surface

October 27, 2012

Marco on The Surface is a great subjective account of visiting a Microsoft store and trying to have a go on a Surface Tablet. This bit sums it all up: The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with [...]

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Kickstarting the Light Fantastic

October 26, 2012

I just backed a new Kickstarter project, Light by Moore’sCloud. What is it? Here: The light that turns you on Beautiful, intelligent, connected light. Fifty-two LEDs in two million colors add up to infinite possibilities of pattern and animation. With a powerful computer and Wifi connectivity, there’s no end to the ways Moore’sCloud Light can [...]

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