Author: John Walker
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The Living Wage Calculator
From MIT: The Living Wage Calculator In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of living. Recently, in a number of high-cost communities, community organizers and citizens have successfully argued that the prevailing wage offered by the public sector and key businesses should reflect…
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Scratch for Arduino Makes Programing the Arduino More Visual
Windows/Mac/Linux: Programming an Arduino isn’t especially difficult, but if you’re looking for a more visual method, Scratch for Arduino (S4A) uses MIT’s Scratch as a groundwork for teaching kids (or beginners) how to program an Arduino. S4A works just like Scratch where you drag and place actions to create programs. The idea is to provide…
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Life Lessons To Learn From Programming
Everything important that you need to know about living a successful life, you can get from a computer program. Don’t believe me? Read on. This post originally appeared on MakeUseOf and LifeHacker Flow Charts Simplify Everything Many programmers start out using flow charts long before they ever start writing a single line of code. The…
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Mozilla Webmaker And The Hour of Code
As part of the effort for the Hour of Code, we’ve compiled some great Webmaker resources that only take about an hour to complete — and can help get you started on a path towards becoming a maker and innovator on the web. More than 3.5 million people have already signed up to participate. Below…