Young Programmers Podcast

Learn about lists, tuples, and shuffling lists, while writing a simple question and answer program. Source code. Video.

Hilary Mason of bit.ly talks about her work and how she got started with computers.

Googler, Python book author, and former College for Kids teacher Wesley Chun visits Dave Briccetti’s Python class by videoconferencing. He talks about learning Python and how it is used by Google.

Carter Sande, young coauthor of the Python book Hello World! - Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, visits Dave Briccetti’s Python programming class for grades 7–9 at Pleasant Hill, CA’s Diablo Valley College College for Kids program, and delivers a guest lecture on random numbers. In another brief video, Dave Briccetti interviews Carter.

While out to lunch one day at the Java Posse Roundup, Peter Pilgrim showed me his ship landing game written in JavaFX. (Sorry about the blurry parts.)

Interviews about game development with Bay Area Video Game Development Meetup members at the January 19, 2010 meetup. Casey Holtz, group leaderTuri Scandurra, www.salvatorescandurra.comGreg Damiano, PlaydomSimon Amarasingham, dSonicJapheth Dillman, iJanda.net

Michael (Van) Van Riper, at a Silicon Valley Web Java User Group (see Joshua Bloch in the background) talks about programming.

Walkthrough of version 1 of the Invisible Player Escapes Maze game in Pygame. Source code

Escape the maze. You are invisible, and so are all the obstacles unless they are close to you. Illustrates use of the ghost effect, and broadcast. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/davebric/818925

Escape the maze before you grow too big. Illustrates use of the timer, and “if touching color.” The Scratch project is here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/davebric/818258

A very quick look at version 2 of our Jython implementation of Conway’s Game of Life. Source code

“Hello World!: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners” Python book co-author and elementary school student Carter Sande introduces PythonCard for making a graphical user interface in Python. He shows a Fahrenheit to Celsius temperature converter and a hangman game. His dad and co-author Warren Sande appears with him.

Sound (your voice, perhaps) controls the altitude of a helicopter which you try to keep from hitting the mountains.

Dave Briccetti shows a very simple Web application he is working on for his mom's nature photography Web site, briccettiphoto.com. Written in Scala, it uses the lift Web application framework, and Flickr Web Services to find her pictures. The source code is on GitHub.