Code Club Queens Park

In support of MakerClub | Clearleft

Declan from MakerClub came by the office week and told us all about this great initiative for kids in Brighton that we’re supporting through the BrightSparks programme.

A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages (PDF)

Alan Kay’s initial description of a “Dynabook” written at Xerox PARC in 1972.

prettydiff/wisdom: Building better developers by specifying criteria of success

I frequently see web developers struggling to become better, but without a path or any indication of clear direction. This repository is an attempt to sharing my experiences, and any contributions, that can help provide such a direction.

It’s broken down into four parts:

• 10 Domains of Web Development
• • Accessibility
• • Architecture
• • Data
• • Events and Interaction
• • Internationalization / Localization
• • Presentation
• • Security
• • Semantics
• • Transmission
• • Understandability / Content
• Interviewing for Web Developers
• Productivity for Web Developers
• Web Training Hierarchy
• 1. Level 1 - Writing Code
• 1. Level 2 - Accessibility and Security
• 1. Level 3 - Architecture
• 1. Level 4 - Innovation

I don’t necessarily agree with everything here (and I really don’t like the “rockstar” labelling), but that’s okay:

Anything written here is open to debate and challenges are encouraged.

The New Digital School - An Alternative to Design Education by Tiago and Cláudia Pedras — Kickstarter

You can back Tiago’s excellent New Digital School. It’s a fantastic project with the web at its heart, and I really hope it gets funded.

Code Club

This is an excellent idea: get a whole bunch of after-school code clubs going to teach kids how to code in Scratch.