Showing posts with label Learn-to-Code. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learn-to-Code. Show all posts

Friday, 30 May 2014

Game to learn how to find XSS Bugs (by Google)

As you can see on https://xss-game.appspot.com and read on Google Launches Game to Teach XSS Bug Discovery Skills , this could be a really interesting way to reach developers.

I will try to give it a test drive and see how easy/hard it is.

I wonder if this could also be used to teach kids about application security (and how fun it can be to break it :)  )

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

On Java code formatting

As a variation of what I wrote in Formatting code for readability here is another example.

Which 'Java source equivalent files' shown below are easier to read?

This one (from FAQ How do I open an editor on something that is not a file?):

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Google/Trimble SketchUp looks really cool

Just read a review of Google SketchUp  which seems to be a pretty powerful 3D Auto-Cad-like tool to design buildings and shapes.

You can download it from here and there is a vibrant community around it here

This could be another way to get kids engaged in programming and coding :)

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Another cool learn to code site (with REPL)

Here is another cool REPL Javascript Learn-to-Code site http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster

It's targeted for Kids, but I would say it's for all ages groups that want to learn (or improve) coding.

My view is that 'Coding is the new Maths' and is an key still to have.

I really like Code Academy and I can't recommend it high enough!

(btw, the reason why this post doesn't have screenshots is explained here: Idea for improving blog creation productivity (post by screenshot) )