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- How Open Can a School Be?
- What really happened at PyCon 2013
- PyCon’s Code of Conduct: The Next Step
- Lightning Talk: Abolishing the traditional high school structure
- A Gittip Milestone: $100k per year in distributions
- Balloon Ninja: Wrapping Up
- Dealing with Bullying: An effective approach
- Balloon Ninja: Kittens!
- Balloon Ninja: A better scoring system
- Balloon Ninja: Start Screen and Game Over
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How Open Can a School Be?
Applying Gittip’s “Open Company” concept to public schools Chad Whitacre, founder of Gittip, has made a name for himself recently through his commitment to running Gittip as an “open company“. Gittip is a platform that allows people to support each … Continue reading
What really happened at PyCon 2013
We are hearing a lot about what happened at PyCon 2013, but most of what is being passed around tells only a tiny part of what really happened. Here’s how PyCon went for me this year: The Educator’s Summit: This … Continue reading
PyCon’s Code of Conduct: The Next Step
A Brief Response to an Incident at PyCon I’ve been thinking a lot about an incident I witnessed at PyCon, which has received a fair amount of attention. On Sunday I was sitting a few rows behind Adria Richards during … Continue reading
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Tagged code of conduct, community, pycon 2013, python, white ribbon
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Lightning Talk: Abolishing the traditional high school structure
Update: You can view the actual talk on YouTube. There is much in public education that works well; more than is often reported in the current political climate. But there is also much about education that is done poorly. When … Continue reading
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Tagged competency education, pycon 2013 lightning talk, python
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A Gittip Milestone: $100k per year in distributions
Many people have been watching Gittip, wondering if it will grow to have a significant impact on the open source ecosystem. Here is an interesting calculation I punched into my phone this morning: $1933.14 x 52 = $100,523.28 Gittip is … Continue reading
Balloon Ninja: Wrapping Up
Back to Tutorial Contents Balloon Ninja on GitHub In the last section we added some kittens to the game to make it more challenging, and we cleaned up Engine.py to be a true class. In this section we will post our … Continue reading
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Tagged balloon ninja, phsgeek, pygame, python, tutorial
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Balloon Ninja: Kittens!
Back to Tutorial Contents Kittens! In the last section we improved the scoring system, which made the game a little more interesting. But so far the game strategy for playing Balloon Ninja is pretty simple. You just grab the sword, and … Continue reading
Balloon Ninja: A better scoring system
Back to Tutorial Contents Pop Rate In the last section of this tutorial, we implemented some logic to determine when the game was over. This was fairly simple logic; the game is over when you miss more than 3 balloons. This … Continue reading
Balloon Ninja: Start Screen and Game Over
Back to Tutorial Contents Start Screen In the last section we added some game logic to Balloon Ninja, which made it more interesting to play. Now let’s add a start button, so the game does not start as soon as we … Continue reading
