An Initial Game Design
Based on analysis of the text adventure game, and using the requirements described in my previous post, I’ve come up with my initial stab at an object-orient...
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Step Away from the Keyboard
It’s tempting to begin a project like this by hammering away at the keyboard writing code. The gratification is immediate, you can see results and feel some ...
Research
I’m currently deep in research for this project :) Now that I’m playing this game I’m looking at it with fresh eyes with thoughts of how it was implemented. ...
You’re in a Forest
Thus begins the classic text adventure game Adventureland by Scott Adams. If you’re unfamiliar with text adventures I don’t blame you. Text adventures were p...
Learning Chess: A Metaphor for Software Development
I’d never learned how to play chess, although I’d always been intrigued by the game. For some reason it had seemed inaccessible to me. Perhaps it was that wh...
Ruby on Rails
I’ve Finished the Ruby on Rails Tutorial…Now What?
It was perhaps unrealistic, but I’d hoped that when at long last I’d completed the final chapter of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, the clouds would part, there ...
Counting Down
I generally learn more by doing something rather than just reading about it, or watching someone else do something. I’ve been working through each of the exe...
Digesting Rails: BDD with RSpec
I’ve now progressed through the first six chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and my head is spinning. I feel like Keanu Reeve’s character from the 90’s b...
3.times { puts “go!” }
I’d been meaning to learn Ruby on Rails for quite some time now, but hadn’t committed myself. I’d heard so much about the beauty of the Ruby language and the...
Ruby
Digesting Rails: BDD with RSpec
I’ve now progressed through the first six chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and my head is spinning. I feel like Keanu Reeve’s character from the 90’s b...
Ruby: First Impressions
As a initiate into the world of Ruby, and as someone coming from a C++ / C# background, I thought I’d jot down some of my initial observations of the Ruby la...
JavaScript
JavaScript Snowflake
It’s getting to be that time of the year again. Soon I’ll have to break out the shovel, but before then, I thought I’d put together a short tutorial on how t...
Counting Down
I generally learn more by doing something rather than just reading about it, or watching someone else do something. I’ve been working through each of the exe...
Scratch
Processing Monsters Meets Career Day
It was almost exactly four years ago, back in December of 2008, that I was invited to give a brief talk to the Career Club at my son’s elementary school abou...
Scratch Day 2012 @ MIT
I took my wife and children (ages 5 and 9) to Boston on Saturday May 19 for Scratch Day at the MIT Media Lab. We all had a great time there and are looking f...
Robotics
Touch Tomorrow at WPI
On Saturday, June 8th we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for the Touch Tomorrow festival. This was a free all day s...
RoboBrrd!
Do you have kids, or are you a kid at heart? If so, do yourself a favor and visit Indiegogo to sign up as a RoboBrrd contributor. I am definitely looking for...
Generative Art
JavaScript Snowflake
It’s getting to be that time of the year again. Soon I’ll have to break out the shovel, but before then, I thought I’d put together a short tutorial on how t...
Processing Monsters Meets Career Day
It was almost exactly four years ago, back in December of 2008, that I was invited to give a brief talk to the Career Club at my son’s elementary school abou...
BDD
Digesting Rails: BDD with RSpec
I’ve now progressed through the first six chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and my head is spinning. I feel like Keanu Reeve’s character from the 90’s b...
RSpec
Digesting Rails: BDD with RSpec
I’ve now progressed through the first six chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and my head is spinning. I feel like Keanu Reeve’s character from the 90’s b...
MIT
Scratch Day 2012 @ MIT
I took my wife and children (ages 5 and 9) to Boston on Saturday May 19 for Scratch Day at the MIT Media Lab. We all had a great time there and are looking f...
Scratch Day
Scratch Day 2012 @ MIT
I took my wife and children (ages 5 and 9) to Boston on Saturday May 19 for Scratch Day at the MIT Media Lab. We all had a great time there and are looking f...
Ray Bradbury
Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury 1920 - 2012
When did I start reading the short stories of Ray Bradbury? I can’t recall exactly, though I do remember seeing books of his lying on the end table at my Unc...
RoboBrrd
RoboBrrd!
Do you have kids, or are you a kid at heart? If so, do yourself a favor and visit Indiegogo to sign up as a RoboBrrd contributor. I am definitely looking for...
Arduino
RoboBrrd!
Do you have kids, or are you a kid at heart? If so, do yourself a favor and visit Indiegogo to sign up as a RoboBrrd contributor. I am definitely looking for...
Carl Sagan
Happy Carl Sagan Day!
Carl Edward Sagan was born on this day in 1934. His 13 part television series Cosmos aired in the autumn of 1980 when I was still in middle school. Like many...
Processing
Processing Monsters Meets Career Day
It was almost exactly four years ago, back in December of 2008, that I was invited to give a brief talk to the Career Club at my son’s elementary school abou...
WPI
Touch Tomorrow at WPI
On Saturday, June 8th we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for the Touch Tomorrow festival. This was a free all day s...
Engineering
Touch Tomorrow at WPI
On Saturday, June 8th we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for the Touch Tomorrow festival. This was a free all day s...
Jekyll
Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll
I decided to do some clean-up of this blog and migrate off of WordPress in the process. The site is now hosted on GitHub Pages and uses Jekyll for static sit...