Our october 2019 Issue
Jack o’Lantern in Sketchup
SketchUp is a free and fun program for 3D modeling. You can use SketchUp to design just about…
STEAM Gift Guide
Download the PDF version of this guide published in our print magazine. STEAM Books Super Cool Scientists Coloring…
Happy Numbers
Recreational math problems and puzzles are key to learning how to solve problems. The ability to carefully tease…
Botley the Coding Robot
The Learning Resources company won its first ever Innovative Toy of the Year TOTY Award for Botley the…
3D Printing in Space
3D printing has been spreading all around the world over the past few years. You may have seen…
A Short History of Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is, for me, one of the more beautiful mysteries of the design process. Lorem ipsum often…
Hello World! in 100 Programming Languages
For the first issue of this magazine, and to introduce a regular feature called Snippets, here is a…
CS and Raising Problem Solvers
Over the summer, as I revisited my 6th grade Computer Science curriculum, I took a few minutes to…
Getting Started with Roblox Studio
Roblox. Given that they claim to have over ninety million active users a month, odds are pretty good…
A License to Code
When someone writes software, who owns the code? That might seem like a weird question: if I wrote…
Adding Types to Untyped Languages
We’ve talked a lot about typed languages lately, like Rust or Idris. These are languages that have a…
Locks to Lightbulbs (IoT)
Have you ever heard of “smart homes” before? It sounds like a home that can do your math…
Tricky Technicians and Cybersecurity
You may have been taught before about viruses that can harm your computer. It’s easy to assume that…
3D in 2D Games
If you’re an avid gamer, you’ll know that games come in one of two graphical styles; a flat…
Turtle Solar System
Are you ready to write some code that’s out of this world? Using Python with Turtle, we’re going…
Pigeon Hole Principle
Imagine that you live in the good ol’ days of yore, before the internet and the telephone, when…
Hash and Salt
When it comes to storing passwords on websites, the process should resemble a delicious potato dish: hashed, then…
CPX Reaction Game
FOR THIS PROJECT YOU WILL NEED A computer running Windows, macOS or Linux An Adafruit Circuit Playground Express…
Closures
There’s a really neat little feature hidden inside a bunch of different languages, one that you may have…