Code School - Learn by Doing
About This Site
Code School is all about learning by doing. Our educational courses combine video, coding in the browser, and gamification principles to make learning more fun and therefore more effective. A typical course contains 5 levels, each with a 10-15 minute video, followed by series of code challenges a student must solve to make it to the next level. Once finished each course provides rewards for completion.
This is an awesome site! I'll definitely be learning RoR through these guys!
They also provide the platform for new authors and new courses here!...now if only someone would create a cdeschool course for iOS Development..nudge nugde wink wink ;)
Another Lunar Video
Taken with my old handmade 3", an old Sony 5mp and a cheap rickety tripod!
Select Custom Maple Series
More Art from my friend Peter van Straten
These paintings are amazing! I had to put them here to show you. They are really communicate! Find Peter van Straten here:
This first one is called "The Quiet Violence of Self-Examination"
Stepping out from the Pale Blue Dot
Asteroids in Near-Earth Orbits!
We all know there is an asteroid belt. But what is not commonly known is 1. how many there are and 2. how many are poised to shake hands with earth! Take a look at this video in 720p HD format or more to get a clear idea of just how full our local space is! I found it on the Universe Today website. It's really quite arresting! Our local space is just lousy with these things!
This video is chronological in that it highlights newly discovered asteroids in white and then colors them in green for safe outer orbits ie. the asteroid belt, yellow which come closer in (1.3AU) and finally (but not with finality) red which indicates asteroids whose orbits cross ours. Notice how the number of asteroids discovered increases with time, indicating more effort being put into their discovery and as technology improves. Also notice how for most of the video they discovered looking directly out and away from the sun and then in 2010 they are discovered looking out and at 90degrees to each side! I wonder what's happening there? I'd be interested to know! Cheers DaleAmateur Astrophotography of Planetary Alignment on the Sky
Sorry, I've just got to plug him again...I've been watching these 3 planets as well as the moon these past few weeks as they move slowly past each other.
