Cooking up a programming environment
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003The ingredients
To follow along with my Karel J Robot programming exercises, you will need four things (more…)
Archive for October, 2003
An Introduction to Programming with Karel J. Robot
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003Programming with Karel J Robot - Part 1 of 4
Computer programming is an absorbing and challenging hobby and a valuable occupational skill. It helps develop many useful intellectual abilities, including analytical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. But most importantly, computer programming is fun.
Welcome to the first in a series of articles intended for people with a moderate level of computer experience but little or no knowledge of programming. Let’s say you know what files and folders are, you can use a word processor, you don’t need detailed instructions on how to install software, and if I say “Run Program X” you’ve got a pretty good idea where Program X is and how to get it going. That’s all you need - no expertise required. (more…)
Dirt-Cheap PDF Files
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003Free PDF!
Most Windows applications that can print can also produce PDF files. Here is a way to produce PDF files for free. The secret is that a PostScript printer driver produces a PostScript file as output. Freely available utilities can then be used to convert the PostScript output to PDF.
It’s even easier on Linux and Macintosh. And OpenOffice.org does it too. (more…)