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29 November 2012 ~ Comments Off

“Have you ever thought about learning to program?”

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“Have you ever thought about learning to program?”

That’s the first sentence in a recent blog post by the Swedish game company Mojang, creator of the hit game, Minecraft. The post describes their recent and upcoming work to create a virtual environment where beginners can explore the power of programming on a low-cost, open platform. While this may not seem interesting to anyone unfamiliar with Minecraft or the Raspberry Pi, the combination with early programming learning is a big deal to me. Here’s why. 

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15 May 2012 ~ Comments Off

Inspiration: The Water Clocks of Bernard Gitton

Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s museum: an immense clock that kept time with the flow of water through glass tubes.

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