Tuesday, December 24, 2013

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: "Before you leave for the holidays, we thought you'd like an overview of what we did this year to improve GIMP for you.

Most of the time was spent on improving the GEGL-based version of GIMP (to be released as v2.10) and porting GIMP plugins to GEGL, so that you could benefit from 32bit float precision per color channel as much as possible."

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

f.lux: software to make your life better

f.lux: software to make your life better: "Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?"

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Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy

Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy: "For example, if I want to write a letter, I open Word. When I what to make a spreadsheet, I open Excel. How do I begin?
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10 days ago by Doris Branch
A common requirement for most languages is, at the very least, a text editor (as said by others notepad will do - but the likes of vim, emacs, notepad++ ... are better). For some languages (like perl, lisp, tcl, ...) this is all you need. For others (in particular java) you will need a compiler to turn your source code into machine instructions"

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Drawing and animation | Computer programming | Khan Academy | Khan Academy

Drawing and animation | Computer programming | Khan Academy | Khan Academy: "Variables
We'll cover how to use variables to hold values, animate your drawings, and more."

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

How Coding Went Mainstream – ReadWrite

How Coding Went Mainstream – ReadWrite: "Last January marked the launch of Code.org, a nonprofit that promotes computer-science education. Code.org launched Hour Of Code, a nationwide campaign that urged Americans to learn how to program. "

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