Episode 44: Logo Scratch Lego

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Introduction: How many monitors are enough?

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News

• Making Crash Bandicoot 
• http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
• Apple will open source Swift
• https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=29
• E3 2015: Star wars Battlefront, Fallout 4, FFVII on iOS
• http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-fallout-4-lead-e3-2015-award/1100-6428540/
• Chirp distributed file system
• http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/chirp

Book of the Show

• Jason: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• http://amzn.to/1LWYOpJ
• Patrick: Leviathan Wakes
• http://amzn.to/1HjpfAo

Tool of the Show

• Jason: cellauto.js http://sanojian.github.io/cellauto/
• Patrick: Transistor iOS

Debugging

• Logo
• Created in 1967 in Lisp
• Turtle cursor added 1969
• Delta Drawing: spinoff for c64 & atari
• Agent Based simulation
• StarLogo
• http://turtleacademy.com/learn.php
• Scratch
• Started in 2003 at MIT
• Graphical block based programming
• Games, animations, sounds
• Promoted for use in coding clubs
• Lego Mindstorms
• Developed in conjunction with MIT and other universities
• NXT-G Code backed by LabView
• Graphical blocks for controlling motors and reading sensors as well as control flow
• RoboMind
• Allows for simulation as well as use on the real thing
• Able to write in a variety of languages targeting the system
• Adobe (Macromedia) Engines
• Authorware
• Adobe Flash
• Others
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_programming_languages