Minecraft Education launches “Hour of AI: The First Night,” a free DLC and demo that lets players conquer the notorious first night with an AI agent they program themselves. The lesson is playable by anyone through Minecraft Education’s MakeCode environment. The module extends a decade of Hour of Code collaboration with Code.org and Microsoft, embedding puzzle-driven tasks that teach pattern recognition and resource classification. Players train their Agent and its mini-helpers to gather materials and automate shelter construction before sunset.
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Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
Never Run Out of Ideas: Lessons Learned from Writing 1000+ Blog Posts : Conferences That Work
“I may run out of ideas, but I’ll never run out of new combinations of ideas.” —Jerry Weinberg, “Weinberg on Writing – The Fieldstone Method“, Chapter 16, Putting Your Subconscious to Work
Jerry’s book uses frequent analogies to building fieldstone walls.
How not to run out of ideas: Stone Wall GIF by JC Property Professionals
Every stone-built wall is unique because you build it from a unique combination and arrangement of stones. Even using the same set of stones, you can build thousands of unique walls by stacking them differently.
The same is true of creating unique combinations of ideas.
5 Free Apps You Should Install As Soon As You Upgrade To Windows 11 - SlashGear
There’s no shortage of great apps for Windows 11, but we’ve narrowed our list to five standouts.
Winaero Tweaker
The ultimate all-in-one tweaker for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7.
Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
Contacted out of the blue for a virtual interview? Be cautious. Attackers are using fake interviews to slip malware onto your device.
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ShareX - The best free and open source screenshot tool for Windows
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
AI Traffic Lights
Access Google Slides with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
PRIMM Debug
binary convertor
Swift Mark up Format
Describes the markup formatting language used for creating rich playgrounds, documenting swift code, and adding developer symbols to QuickHelp.
Swift Playgrounds writing Prose
Add comment markers in your Swift code to mark text as prose.
Paul Baumgarten IB Teaching Notes
Swift Playgrounds Padlet
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Diagnostics Questions
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University of Helsinki MOOC Center
8 bit computer
The Assembler-programmable model of Scott's 8-bit computer has been developed as a JavaScript-based web app by Siegbert Filbinger.
Tynker
The #1 coding platform for kids. Tynker fuels learning across 150,000 schools and powers the imagination of 100 million kids worldwide. With Tynker, kids learn to code the fun and easy way with revolutionary visual code blocks that represent real programming concepts.
Python Challenges
Python Challenge site aimed at schools and first year university students. All tutorials are in Python 3.
Project Euler
A website dedicated to the fascinating world of mathematics and programming
STEM and Computing Education
STEM and Computing Education: Access Arm’s curriculum resources and professional learning with popular tools like micro:bit, Raspberry Pi, and more.
GPT Bot (Now with free access)
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
Code.org
Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with Code.org’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.
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Competitions January Perse Programming Competition Technovation Girls Microsoft Imagine Cup CodeCombat KL - Coding Cup February Canadian Coding Competition USA Computing Olympiad (February round) World Computing Championships: Contest 3 March Girls In AI May Coding Quest June do your :bit - BBC ...
Python Viewer and ordering quiz maker
Recently on the SEACSTA chat, Parsons puzzles came up and they are a great tool for teaching programming concepts to students. They involve rearranging given lines of code to solve a problem, helping students understand the logical flow of programming without the syntax burden.
Experience CS
Experience CS is a brand-new, free, integrated computer science curriculum for elementary and middle school educators and anyone working with students aged 8...
The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy
The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy