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I create a fully functional Windows 10 app in less than 10 minutes -- without writing a single line of code

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Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorial Will Inspire Students to Learn Computer Science Skills

The following post first appeared on the Microsoft in Education blog on Monday November 16th — New Resources for Educators and School Leaders Available Today By Anthony Salcito, vice president, Microsoft Education To the community of 100 million players around the world, Minecraft represents many things – creativity, strategy, collaboration and survival, just to name...

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The Microsoft UK Blog for schools, featuring news for schools from Microsoft, case studies within education, and education ICT advice

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20 Terminal shortcuts developers need to know

These days, more and more developers are moving to OS X. Here are 20 shortcuts to help you get work done in Terminal on your Mac.

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'80s game designers had to cheat their way to color graphics

We take powerful computer graphics for granted nowadays, to the point where we complain when 4K games won't play at 60fps. But YouTube's iBookGuy showed

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Apple takes the ‘Swift' programming language open source

Apple has announced that they will be launching the next version of their programing language Swift as open source

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This Fibonacci clock forces you to do math to tell the time

The Fibonacci Clock tells the time using glowing lights and the Fibonacci sequence.

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Get under the crust of these 10 fun and easy Raspberry Pi projects

The Raspberry Pi is an amazing device. Check out some of our favorite Pi projects out there, whether you want to create a weather station or instrument.

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HummingBoard is a Raspberry Pi rival that lets you swap out its processor

You'd think the world of hobbyist mini computers would be full, considering that you've got a choice of Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone and even

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10 Programming Languages You Should Learn in 2014

With tech jobs on the rise, these 10 programming languages are essential for aspiring developers.

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How iOS 8's new developer features will impact you | Digital Trends

Apple dedicated a good portion of WWDC 2014 to developers. What do the iOS 8 SDK improvements mean for developers and users? We take a look at all the changes.

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Xcode 6, Swift, CloudKit, and more surprising developer news from WWDC 2014

The WWDC 2014 keynote revealed that Apple has been busy creating a new programming language, an update of Xcode, and other tools to make developers' lives easier.

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The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 8, was unveiled at WWDC today promising new features not only for consumers, but also for developers, thanks to a brand new SDK

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Raspberry Pi modded into a $160 cellphone

Remember how happy you were when you got your Raspberry Pi project to do, well, anything? Programming savant and photographer David Hunt has merely

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How to make to your own Minecraft server

Whether you're hosting a server for a few friends or recreating your favorite show's world, you too can host your own Minecraft Server.