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These parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops

Enlarge / Öppna Skolplattformen hoped to succeed where Skolplattform had failed. (credit: Comstock | Getty Images) Christian Landgren’s patience was running out. Every day the separated father of three was wasting precious time trying to get the City of Stockholm’s official school system, Skolplattform, to work properly. Landgren would dig through endless convoluted menus to […]

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Game Builder Garage looks like a decidedly Nintendo take on programming

Welcome to a blank, empty world that you get to fill. The idea of a video game that lets you build other video games is nearly as old as the medium itself, dating back at least to 1983’s Pinball Construction Set. More recently, series like Little Big Planet and Dreams have shown just how powerful […]

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Solve Scheduling challenges at Runcode.ninja Internet Contest, Nov. 6-9

Expand / Shozoku and ninjato have been invited, but not only required, to be able to compete. (charge: RunCode) Annual programming contest Runcode.ninja is {} in its fourth season, starting Friday, November 6. RunCode is a nonprofit organization staffed by volunteers working in their own spare time and concentrated on providing educational opportunities for coders […]