Oct 23
My BeCamp 2019 Presentation on Teaching Kids Code
Here is my presentation on my experience teaching my son code from BeCamp 2019.
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Oct 13
My Presentation on Going Solar from BeCamp 2018
Here is my presentation on going solar from last year’s (2018) becamp.
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Sep 12
More Lessons In Book Cover Design
Last week I posted about everything my son and I learned about designing a cover for a book. Based on that we designed a new cover for Intermediate JavaScript, a followup to my first book Elementary JavaScript. I was very excited about the new cover. It looked great on my screen, much more professional than…
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Sep 11
Win a Copy of Elementary JavaScript at Amazon
Elementary JavaScript has been getting some great reviews on Amazon: it is written in a manner that all ages can learn, understand and enjoy while learning to code My 9 yo and I have finished first 4 chapters and absolutely love this book. Would recommend to prospective young coders and their parents! understanding how to…
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Sep 8
Designing a Cover for Intermediate JavaScript
If you follow the Elementary JavaScript book page on Facebook or Instagram, you will have seen that Ahan, my 10 year old son, and I have started on the second book in the series called Intermediate JavaScript. One of the things that Ahan helped me with on the first book was cover design. This time…
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Sep 2
Sunflower Festival at Liberty Mills Farm
Here are some pictures from the Sunflower Festival at Liberty Mills Farm. Starting this post, I’ll upload images at 4k resolution instead of the 1080P from before. Here is a panorama of the sunflower field: While we were there, we could see they were getting ready for the corn maze: Using these images.
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Aug 31
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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