A Nod to Nothing

I don't know why this was so difficult.  I'm pretty sure that /100, *100, /100 is probably wrong anyway, it just works because the m...

Chapter 1 , the most basic option for a tip calculator using Python.  No type checking and no error handling. print("Enter a tip:...

I spent this morning at Pacer in Bloomington teaching girls how to "code" in Kodu.  It's not exactly coding; more assigning ac...

I was playing around with this on my free time:  https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/replicating-the-new-york-times-bot-twitter-analysis-with...

This is a cool idea.  It maps, in the browser, what you draw against some machine learning algorithms.  I played aroudn with the cat one to ...

A post I left elsewhere tonight.  I'm playing around with the first bits of The Python Companion to Data Science . Hmm...my notes tell...

"For girls, you cannot be what you cannot see," says Reshma Saujani... I think this is tough, because it has to be hard to measu...

Thought I'd be smart and fix the increasing difficulty Vector3 issue by just making the velocity of the asteroids faster and faster base...

I've got music and waves going and scoring and restart in my Unity3d game.  And then I tried to get fancy and add a value that slowly mo...

I went to Minnedemo 22 last night at the Depot in downtown Minneapolis.  I tried to have dinner at Zen Box beforehand, but I was looking fo...

I'm tempted to use Unity3d as an interview tool for intern/new grad candidates as a great example of the dangers of not getting rid of y...

I've got my ship flying around in the second Unity tutorial.  I think 20 minutes a night (really about 30+ of work) is about as much as ...

Last Friday, before the long weekend, I went over to career day at Inver Grove Hills to present to eighth graders.  I still can't tell w...

I was working on a new Unity tutorial today that involved multiple light sources.  I find it amazing that I can use a piece of software to j...

I am exceedingly proud of being able to follow instructions. I have a board game I'd like to make...actually two or three or four or fi...

What's that?  Ming seems to be wearing out while poking me in Facebook?  He just doesn't have the same gumption he once had?  Is it ...

But I did manage to make the circle colors vary both with an if/else with a modulo, and in a second version using a (mutable) array of UICol...

Boing Boing has a link to an amusing javascript game where you can dump the javascript in your url and you're playing Katamari Damacy. ...

My lead developer on a project couldn't attend a meeting on Friday. My lead (a project manager) couldn't attend in her stead. I sa...