I have been teaching Rebecca some programming with a game she already knows: tic-tac-toe. We built this one together in App Lab. Knowing the rules is the easy part. Getting the computer to follow all of them gives us something fun to figure out together. I wanted to practice keeping track of whose turn it […]
Rebecca loves programming, so I have been teaching her some JavaScript by making little projects together in Code.org. A drawing app is a fun place to start because she can see something happen right away. This version has different brushes, a size slider, and a custom color picker. I wanted to work on events and […]
Shantell wanted her Facebook bookmark to make her solve a math problem before letting her in. That sounded like a perfectly reasonable little programming project. 🙂 I made it as a bookmarklet instead of a browser extension. The bookmark runs a small JavaScript function, asks a randomly generated multiplication or percentage question with prompt(), and […]