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Aug 16
How I made the Illustrations for Elementary JavaScript
I’m not an artist. Not even close. I’m sure you can tell from the illustrations. As a child, my mom convinced (read forced) me to take an art exam and my art teacher told me he would write a note in blood that I will fail in the exam. Well, I passed, just barely. While…
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Aug 10
From Nothing To a Complete eBook Sales Page Using WooCommerce and Stripe in Minutes.
I just put up my JavaScript For Kids book for sale as a PDF download last week. Having never done this before, I was expecting a lot of setup hassle and several days of software development work. But it turned out to be very straightforward and extremely painless and I wrote no code to make…
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Aug 3
Niagara Bird Kingdom
A little outside the edge of the Niagara falls tourist trap area, close to Rainbow Bridge, lies Niagara Bird Kingdom. It has more species of birds that are easily accessible by camera than I’ve ever seen before along with a few other creatures. In the short time I was there, I spent it quickly clicking…
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Aug 3
The $10 Billion Bet Against Tesla
These days presidential elections have big budgets. The budgets along with unknown money are used to spread all kinds of information, including pervasive amounts of misinformation via social media and illegitimate or barely legitimate news/opinion sources. For example Donald Trump raised $436 million for his campaign. And that was less than Obama in 2008 at…
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Aug 1
Full Color Books on Kindle Direct Publishing vs Barnes and Noble Press
If you follow this blog, you know that I’m writing a book to teach kids programming. A few weeks back I got my first set of author proofs from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and they looked great. It was nice to be able to read and find problems on paper instead of on a screen….
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Jul 31
Canada Vacation Foooooooood……. Montreal, 1000 Islands, Niagara Falls
Just got back from Montreal, Thousand Islands and Niagara Falls and here is the food we ate everywhere. The most important part of a Gujarati’s vacation: Montreal Canadian Food Beavertails at Queues de Castor and Poutine at Maison Smokies – a food truck in Old Port, Montreal: Review: Both things were delicious. See how my…
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Jul 22
My Book is Now Available for Preorder at Barnes & Noble
My book Elementary JavaScript – JavaScript for Elementary and Middle School Kids is now available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble. The expected publication date is Oct 31st. I’m currently awaiting editing and proofreading. It will be available on Amazon at around the same time but will be more expensive there. The book uses the…
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Jul 21
A Phaser 3 Tutorial Implemented in ES6
This tutorial by Richard Davey is a really nice introduction to Phaser 3, using it to make a simple game. Before I work with my son on using Phaser, I’ve rewritten it to use ES6 classes in JavaScript. You can download the source code here. The assets are included and distributed with permission. Assuming you…
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Jul 14
Butterfly Walk at the Future McIntyre Botanical Garden
Pictures from a Butterfly walk at the future home of McIntyre Botanical Garden:
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