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Gail Carmichael: Designing an Intro to CS for Non-Majors: Starting With the Objectives 26 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
I have been working on my course design for my introductory computer science class for non-majors. It is taught in Processing and covers all the basics of programming and computational problem solvin...
Gail Carmichael: The Latest on the App Formerly Known as Carleton Quest 21 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
I've been making good progress on the app formerly known as Carleton Quest. I've rewritten the story to include more faculty-specific info and general school spirit, made fewer locations mandatory, a...
Inkscape Tutorials: 5 Minute Video Tutorial – simple badge 19 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
Here is a super quick video tutorial to make a simple badge with inkscape.
Inkscape Tutorials: Creating a Female Cartoon Avatar with inkscape! 19 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Here is another awesome tutorial by Olga Bikmullina that explains how to draw a female cartoony avatar using inkscape. Be sure to also check out some of Olga’s awesome vector illustrations done using...
Gail Carmichael: Making the Most of Your Messaging in 'Women in Computer Science' Outreach 16 Aug 2013 | 03:32 pm
If you've ever done outreach with girls to try to get them into computer science, you may have wondered what the best way to do it is. After all, we've been at this a while, and yet we haven't seen t...
Kees Cook: TPM providing /dev/hwrng 13 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
A while ago, I added support for the TPM’s pRNG to the rng-tools package in Ubuntu. Since then, Kent Yoder added TPM support directly into the kernel’s /dev/hwrng device. This means there’s no need to...
Gail Carmichael: Female Friendly Narrative Modding in Games 9 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Why is it that there are still so few video games stories with awesome female protagonists that don't play into the usual gender stereotypes? What's a gamer to do if he or she wants to experience more...
Ted Gould: Emergent Complexity 4 Aug 2013 | 10:06 am
When looking at Upstart it comes off as very simple. Almost too much so. It's just events. And jobs that take those events. And not much else. You're so used to configuring every last detail of a syst...
Gail Carmichael: A Picture of Me Dancing With Graphs 2 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
On Wednesday, I did my annual mentoring with Girls @ Virtual Ventures, the all-female section of the popular science and engineering camp held at Carleton. As usual, the girls made a wonderful audien...
Gail Carmichael: Brenda Romero at G4C13: The Games Need to Change 29 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
In the games for change movement, what needs to change? Brenda Romero, designer in residence at UC Santa Cruz, thinks it's the games. In her Games for Change 2013 keynote, Romero explains that she di...
