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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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