It really bothers me that a number of commenters on a TC article are still misinformed as to what the term "hacker" actually means. Thank you, mainstream media, for all of your misinformation and FUD. Regardless, I will still go about my days explaining to people that I'm a hacker for a living, and that it isn't a bad thing. I'll keep explaining that the term was derived from MIT's model railroad club and if possible, refer them to http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html or tell them to google it; then maybe someday along with the help of awesome programs like CoderDojo, the general population will be a little less misinformed.
This is a lost battle. It's like arguing that decimate means killing only 1 in 10, or that literally refers to a something factual, or that a virus does not need your admin password to install itself and spread.
Dojos tend to be autonomous but we've been working with pygame in Dublin (and HTML5 and basically anything)
It's also only once a week, and plenty of the kids will simply power on when they leave. It's amazing how many come back with working games and their own code after only a few weeks.
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It's also only once a week, and plenty of the kids will simply power on when they leave. It's amazing how many come back with working games and their own code after only a few weeks.