Kaylee is an English language teacher at primary schools in Japan. But she doesn’t just whip out a dusty old grammar book and drone on about when to use a gerund! She has mad programming and maker skills and she puts them to use in engaging the children. She has reproduced 1980s TV game shows […]
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CCATP #585 – Bart Busschots on PBS 73 – Mustache Templates
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us about Mustache Templates. Mustache Templates are a library that allows you to input any string and output a string. Unlike the template tag for HTML5, Mustaches are not restricted to HTML snippets. Mustache isn’t the only game in town but it’s Bart’s favorite. I […]
Continue readingCCATP #583 – Bart Busschots on PBS 72 – HTML5 Templates
Last time Bart teased us that we were going to learn about the template library called Mustache, but he realized that he needed to teach us about vanilla HTML 5 Templates first. He starts by showing the problem to be solved: how messy and error-prone it is to create HTML elements using jQuery. Then he […]
Continue readingCCATP #570 – Bart Busschots on PBS 66 of X – Bootstrap Form Validation
HTML 5 gives us form validation for free, but it’s not very nuanced. In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart will show us how to use Bootstrap to make our form validation a little less shouty and more useful for the viewer. He shows us how to take a little control, how to take […]
Continue readingCCATP #559 – Sal Soghoian & Ray Robertson on Automation
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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CCATP #558 – Bart Busschots on PBS 60 of X – Bootstrap & jQuery
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth Bart introduces us to Bootstrap Components how we can use jQuery to extend Bootstrap. This is the first baby step into JavaScript with Bootstrap. I’m glad Bart started slowly because my JavaScript muscles are just a bit stiff and dusty. You can find Bart’s tutorial over at […]
Continue readingListening to Bart Really Pays Off
Bart has been teaching you and me for many years now. Between his Taming the Terminal series and now his Programming By Stealth series, he’s attempted to cram vast amounts of knowledge into our brains. My father used to say that children are like wine bottles – you should pour as much information into them […]
Continue readingCCATP #531 – Bart Busschots on PBS 52 – Introducing Bootstrap 4
We’re finally back after spring break, and we’re going to be moving on from JavaScript while we learn about Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a set of open source libraries which provide pre-built foundations for creating responsive and good looking websites. It’s an easy episode with easy and fun homework I think you’ll enjoy. The link to […]
Continue readingHow almost everything in JavaScript is an Object – by Will aka @beiju
The following explanation is from an old friend of the show, Will (also known as @beiju). Unbeknownst to us, he’s been following along with Programming By Stealth all this time and just popped his head up for the first time in quite a few years. Will wrote the following in an email to Bart and […]
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CES 2018: Wonder Workshop Educational Robots for Kids
Allison interviews Bryan Miller from Wonder Workshop about their robots and apps that help kids learn. Bryan describes the educational robots Dash and Cue. Dash teaches children from kindergarten up to 5 to 6 years old how to code to control a small robot using block programming. Wonder Workshop’s latest robot, Cue, takes kids from […]
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