Gamming
DimensionU House Cup Championship Tournament, Cook said. DimensionU, formerly Tabula Digita, is a company that produces multiplayer educational video games
Educators http://educator.dimensionu.com
Adobe
Game Developer Tools and direct to http://gaming.adobe.com/ and talk about Getting Started on the Creative Cloud to access.
The Recorded session on Friday: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p2amq7wudby/
Description: Get more information from Thibault Imbert and Diana Helander on the upcoming Adobe Game Developer Tools, available in the Adobe Creative Cloud. ActionScript, C/C++ and Unity game developers can now develop, optimize performance and deliver desktop and mobile games to the broadest audience using a common code base and with a familiar tool chain. Included are new tools (e.g., Adobe Scout aka Project Monocle) as well as a single collection of resources (frameworks, SDKs, learning resources) to help you build, optimize and deliver games faster for the browser or mobile apps. Whether you’re new to game development or an old hand, the Adobe Game Development Tools can help you get your games to market more quickly.
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/developing-html5-games-with-impactjs.html
Udacity:
3D Rendering: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs291/CourseRev/1?utm_source=udacity&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=october
Python:
CASTA emailed me about: The NCLab team released a new version of the visual programming course Adventures of Karel the Robot. The new edition has beautiful graphics, new games, improved autograding, and student progress tracking.
The course is suitable for grades 4 and up. It begins from zero and leads all the way to custom commands, variables, Python lists, and recursion. It teaches algorithmic thinking and prepares students for a smooth transition to Python programming. More details about the course and sample screenshots can be found at https://nclab.com/karel-story/.
K-12 teachers may request free access to the course by filling a simple online form athttps://nclab.com/freeaccess/.
Here is a link to the Python.org using Windows https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html these are directions for python 3.5
Here is a link also from Python.org for downloading https://www.python.org/downloads
After you install Python, and associate it with the Notepad++ editor
to get to the Python command line which is denoted by >>>
click the Windows Button and search for Python
run the Python , this will bring you to the Python run command (this is the command line)
if you type in print ('Hello, world")
you will get the response Hello, world!
you can type in >>> help() to bring up the command line help
quit will exit you from help
Here are some links a link to Philip Guo the PythonTutor - he is written up on the KhanAcademy web site - but his tutorials are on his page http://pythontutor.com/
Here is the Python Tutorial https://docs.python.org/3.5/tutorial which explains the Command Line.
Here are some simple Programs https://wiki.python.org/moin/SimplePrograms
Python Editor - TKinter - Graphical User Interface for Python
Wiki Site: https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
Python Docs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/tkinter.html
Python - Run & Deploy ON-LINE
Python - build your own Tetris (after you sign up)
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tetris-python-tutorial-pygame/
Python to clean up data - when Excel can't
Open Computer Vision- OpenCV.org is written in C++, but has interfaces with Python & Java
OpenComputerVision Tutorials https://docs.opencv.org/master/d9/df8/tutorial_root.html
OpenCV application areas include: Facial/Gesture Recognition, Motion Tracking & Understanding,
Mobile Robotics just to mention a few! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV
JAVA
Each of these texts are free and available online.
A Guide to Java, Charlie MacFadyen
Supplemental:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (HTT), version 6.1.2, Allan B. Downey & Chris Mayfield.
Introduction to Programming Using Java (ITP), David J. Eck.