I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the educational companies who have taken steps to make free content available to all the students who are at home sheltering in place. I’m so happy that my company was able to make resources available, but I’m also very pleased that so many others were […]
I was inspired by a free handout at my local public library, it was a “1000 books before kindergarten” workbook. The idea is that you track each book that you read with your children and try to read 1000 books before they begin kindergarten.To begin with, this seems like a lofty goal! 1000 books are […]
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The lunar eclipse for January 2019 inspired me to try to capture it with a camera. So just for fun, I thought I might talk about my experience with shooting the moon pics so that other’s who might be inspired can learn from my mistakes. Shooting at full auto Before beginning this experiment, I did think it […]
Introduction Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system “conda” instead of pip, and the packages include binaries in addition to python source libraries. It’s a great tool if you […]
Overview Building content that will be utilized by a Learning Management System (LMS) requires a development environment that has a running LMS. Preferably if you are going to build content using an open source mechanism, you should have as many LMSs as you can, in order to ensure that your content can play on all of […]
This post is about the design of the Alphabet Tiles game, not the graphics for the game, but the description of it. This is what Game Designers do, they create the definition of the game. A good step in game design is to start with a GDD or Game Design Document. The game design document […]
For the final project of my ai for robotics class I implemented a version of a simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm. SLAM allows you to build a robot that can use its sensors to build a map of its surroundings while it is also simultaneously attempting to perform localization so that it can manage the […]
Building an educational game is more difficult than building a game without a purpose. Because you are attempting to do two things at once, both become more difficult. You might want to start by making a normal game or two, maybe choosing one that has educational benefits but is not designed to teach the user […]