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Learn To Think Like A Programmer Visually

One of the technologies we’re fooling around with at work is microgames, which (in our case) are very small games, usually implemented in Adobe Flash, that take a couple of minutes to play.  They often involve logic puzzles, and “training you without you knowing it”.

I just found this really fun one called Light-Bot.  The goal is to give a robot a series of instructions to traverse a path of blocks to light up the blue ones.  You write the program visually by dragging action icons onto program slots and then running the program. Read on…

Tweet the Vote. No, Digg The Vote. No, YouTube the Vote. Oh, . . . Just Vote.

TechCrunch, a blog I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet, has an exellent post listing a bunch of ways to follow next week’s US presidential elections.  It seems there are quite a few websites throwing their hat into this ring.

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