Our april 2018 Issue
Llama Emoji
Llamas are strange creatures, part sheep, horse, and maybe giraffe. They’re also big animals, not small like goats.…
Kinesthetic Computer Science
During the first lesson of the year, I give students only two rules: you have to make use…
Portland HOP
Do you ever take public transit, like buses or light rail? If you do, how do you pay…
Autonomous Driving in Today’s Cars
For years, progress has been made in creating self-driving cars. However, if you’re like most people, the car…
Creating a Jigsaw Puzzle
If you haven’t completed the previous SketchUp projects in this magazine, here’s where you need to go for…
Robofrog
A brown frog puffs out his vocal sac and he calls “whine.” To human ears, it isn’t that…
Regex Game
From 1896 to 1899, over 100,000 men flocked to the Klondike during the gold rush. They filled large…
April 2018 News Wire
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for February 2018.
Sphero in Literature Class
“It’s not possible that anyone could have that much bad luck.” While reading The Grapes of Wrath in…
Laser Burglar Alarm
What will you need for this project? A microbit Micro USB lead to connect micro:bit to computer A…
Minecraft Modding
Last issue, we talked about online servers and how to access them. If you gave online a try,…
Awesome Summer Camps to Consider
Wondering what you are going to do this summer? Well, instead of spending it on the couch, why…
Scratch Boids and AI
So we’ve done a lot of little games in Scratch the past few issues, but this time we…
Navajo Code Talkers
For the past few issues, we’ve been covering very logical ciphers. These have used an encryption and decryption…
Google Expeditions
Do you remember what you ate for dinner seventeen days ago? Or what colour shirt you wore? Probably…
How to Solve Rubik’s Cube
Six colours. Nine squares to a side, six sides to a cube. 43 quintillion possibilities. Invented in 1974…
PyGame (or Godot)
In the last issue, I talked about my experience in PyWeek, a week-long game jam done specifically with…
DIY Echo Home Speaker
What is a digital assistant? We’ve all seen advertisements like these… “Siri, what is the highest mountain in…
Clojure (or Common Lisp)
The language we’ll be talking about this issue, Clojure (said as “closure”), ties together a couple of ideas…