Minecraft is _hugely_ popular with anybody under 14. To the point that it's no longer only nerdy parents that showed their kids it, it's kids hearing about it from other kids. It's simple to buy and install and get…
DAMNIT! My daughter had hers disabled, never found the reactivate link. It sucks because she is now 13 and a non-issue, but lost her email address of 3-4 years.
Partially this is likely due to the relatively low populations - Manitoba and Saskatchewan have a combined population of ~2.5 million. Alberta bumps up to ~3.7 million, and the connections start to increase.
I came here to say this. My parents have never shown any interest in IT whatsoever. My brothers, never. Me, as soon as I started messing around with a Commodore-64, I was hooked. Give your kids the opportunities to…
"At least I’ve heard IntelliJ IDEA is great, I’ve never used it." That's like complaining about image manipulation software when all you've used is GIMP. I'm a vim guy from way back, I always avoided big IDEs because of…
I'm pretty sure you can in Canada, using the interac (debit) network: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_emt.p...
Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this: Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts: 1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studio 2003. 2. Yes there was some editing…
I'm surprised that The Pragmatic Programmer isn't on there. Am I that much out of date that this book is no longer recommended? It completely changed the way I thought of development at the time.
I have one boy that reads constantly. I too used a lot of the points here and seems to have worked, thinking about it my parents did the same with me. I will, however, chime in and mention that we also have a…
My favorite would be a comment in some generated html (no other comments around it <!-- this are some comments --> Later it was "fixed" <!-- these are some comments -->
My question is why do we treat students differently in exams than we do in classes? When I was going through K-12, there was no collaborative work, we sat at our own desks, did our own work, and although cheating was…
Minecraft is _hugely_ popular with anybody under 14. To the point that it's no longer only nerdy parents that showed their kids it, it's kids hearing about it from other kids. It's simple to buy and install and get…
DAMNIT! My daughter had hers disabled, never found the reactivate link. It sucks because she is now 13 and a non-issue, but lost her email address of 3-4 years.
Partially this is likely due to the relatively low populations - Manitoba and Saskatchewan have a combined population of ~2.5 million. Alberta bumps up to ~3.7 million, and the connections start to increase.
I came here to say this. My parents have never shown any interest in IT whatsoever. My brothers, never. Me, as soon as I started messing around with a Commodore-64, I was hooked. Give your kids the opportunities to…
"At least I’ve heard IntelliJ IDEA is great, I’ve never used it." That's like complaining about image manipulation software when all you've used is GIMP. I'm a vim guy from way back, I always avoided big IDEs because of…
I'm pretty sure you can in Canada, using the interac (debit) network: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_emt.p...
Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this: Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts: 1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studio 2003. 2. Yes there was some editing…
I'm surprised that The Pragmatic Programmer isn't on there. Am I that much out of date that this book is no longer recommended? It completely changed the way I thought of development at the time.
I have one boy that reads constantly. I too used a lot of the points here and seems to have worked, thinking about it my parents did the same with me. I will, however, chime in and mention that we also have a…
My favorite would be a comment in some generated html (no other comments around it <!-- this are some comments --> Later it was "fixed" <!-- these are some comments -->
My question is why do we treat students differently in exams than we do in classes? When I was going through K-12, there was no collaborative work, we sat at our own desks, did our own work, and although cheating was…