Our november 2013 Issue
Beth Rosenberg Talks How Tech Kids Unlimited Helps Kids Who Learn Differently
In the United States, an estimated seventy percent of children on the autism spectrum are between the ages…
Stop Words
Imagine you have written search engine software. Now you want to speed up how fast your software searches…
More Fun with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi computer board can be adapted to any number of projects. Here are a few videos…
What Happened to Geodesic Domes?
Most Americans familiar with Disney World Resorts, in Florida, know Spaceship Earth. It’s the giant silver golf ball…
News Wire Stories for November 2013
Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/ Flat UI and Forms Some insights on flat design…
Bubble Sorts
I came across this wonderfully silly but highly educational video that demonstrates how bubble sorting works in programming…
The 7 Bridges of Königsberg
The puzzle is called The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. It’s based on an actual city, then in Prussia,…
How I Built This Magazine
Since this issue is all about building small but useful things, my essay this month is about how…
Haskell
First, the Haskell programming language is not named after Eddie Haskell, the sneaky double-dealing neighbor kid in the…
Icon-itis
The history of computer interfaces is still evolving. The first computer interfaces were punch cards, large wheels to…
Functions
This Code Snippets section of the magazine explains parts of programming languages common across most or all languages.…
My Adventures with Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi is a hand-sized computer you can use to do all sorts of projects. Plus you…