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Gamifying Thunderdome I thought it would be a great exercise to attempt to gamify planning poker. Originally I thought about starting fresh and building an app from the ground up but decided that it would be much more efficient, to begin with, a working planning poker application and add in the gamified elements. After doing […]
What is Gamification? Gamification is the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, such as education. This can include elements like points, badges, leaderboards, and rewards, as well as game-like challenges and interactions. The goal of gamification is to make learning more engaging and interactive and to motivate learners to continue learning. Gamification in […]
ImageMagick is a tool commonly used by developers to convert images between formats. It is a great tool that supports many image formats and is pretty easy to work with, once you get the command line arguments down. (It is a command line tool.) I needed to extract images from PDFs, and although I could do it […]
Moving between repositories On occasion, you may need to move from one repository to another. Depending on your needs, you may only care about one branch and not care about the history, in that case, you can just check out the code locally, and then add a remote and push to move. However, if you […]
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 […]
TwilioQuest Review Twilio has created an awesome game that is designed to teach students to program. I’m going to start by just saying – if you are interested in learning to code, then this app is fun and a great way to get started! Also if you have a friend who is learning to code […]
Gamification has become a bit of a dirty word in Education, and there have been many detractors in business as well. I recently read this Quora question, “Is Gamification Evil?” and I wanted to both respond to the response, and also show an example of Gamification that most developers who use GitHub are familiar with, […]
The gamification of Agile planning poker Planning poker® is a part of many Agile team’s rituals and is used during the estimation of stories. The main goal of planning poker is to enable the team to estimate their stories in a fun way – but it also helps the estimation process in many ways. I’ve […]
If you have multiple organizations that you code with, you may have noticed that all of the GitHub notifications go to a single inbox. This may be useful, but for me, I prefer to have the relevant emails sent to individual inboxes. For instance, my personal repository should update my personal email, and a business […]
Python libraries for computational statistics and data science Python is a perfect choice for working with data, but it is not the only choice, R is also a great choice for instance. But since python is very accessible and it is a general-purpose language that you can use for other projects, it may be the best choice […]