The dot-com crash around the turn of the century saw companies rushing to adopt and take advantage of the internet. A relatively new technology and phenomenon at the time, but one that venture capitalists saw as having earning potential. Over the last five years of the 20th century, they invested trillions of dollars, and stock prices for publicly traded internet entities soared, only to come crashing down when the bottom dropped out of the market.
Category: Programming
Why I’m Learning to Code in the Age of Vibe Coding
Can you vibe code anything without knowing how to code? Not quite. That’s why I’m not ready to give in to vibe coding yet.
5 subject areas where micro:bits enhance outdoor learning | micro:bit
We will be using the BBC Microbits again this year to cover programming concepts. Here are a few ideas for projects you can try with the Microbits. https://microbit.org/news/2024-05-31/5-areas-where-digital-skills-thrive-outdoors/
5 subject areas where micro:bits enhance outdoor learning | micro:bit
The micro:bit is designed to be unplugged from a screen and used wherever children are learning, in any type of environment, including the great outdoors.
Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?
In this new effort, the research team wondered if it might not be easier and cheaper simply to build a robot that can be taught how to drive a car and put it in the driver’s seat of a normal vehicle.
Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations | Scientific American
After more than six months of long-distance troubleshooting—Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and any signal takes more than 22.5 hours to travel from our planet to the spacecraft—mission personnel have finally coaxed Voyager 1 to gather and send home data with all its remaining science instruments, according to a NASA statement.
Drone Racing – Are you looking for something new and different to do for extra-curricular activities?
Drone racing can benefit IT, Cyber, and many other careers.
ITPro: 15 top BBC micro:bit projects
You can find tutorials and information about each of these programming languages on the micro:bit site.