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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Scratch (and Arduino)
Arduino (and rPi, Beaglebone, et al) yes, but Scratch is horrid, visually, usability-wise, and coding graphically low level if / while / assignment / etc. is the worst marriage of text-based coding and graphical UI's.
Marc
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Don't take this badly, but neither of us are the next generation of technologists.
My nephew is (probably) and he has created some pretty cool stuff with Scratch.
Its just a start bit the has the basics - as did I when I started with BASIC.
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The majority of computer languages fulfill all three criteria. They are but a click away. If you want a nice editor/debugger along with it, a few clicks.
That said, .NET is ubiquitous, easy to use, free and, as bonuses, extremely powerful and with a truly kick-ass IDE. (I vastly prefer C++ and honestly believe it's the best way to really learn how to program professionally, but if you want to just learn some programming, I can't think of a better, cheaper, way than C#.NET.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a tool that is ubiquitous, accessible, and free.
ubiquitous: JavaScript
accessible: It's here in your browser, JavaScript
free: JavaScript
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Sulphuric rain? Easy. Not burning up at 500°C or crushed by 90 atmospheres? Hard. Overclockers should be pleased
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But will it survive a child or, horror of horrors, a teenager?
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Samsung just can't catch a break when it comes to batteries. I'm going with irony here
Although "appropriate" and "karma" might also work.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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UI for UWP is a suite of 20+ UI controls for developers building UWP applications which include a variety of controls for various apps. Wasn't selling well?
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Two thirds of that sentence is correct.
This space for rent
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Today at the Windows Developer Day online event, Microsoft Developer VP Kevin Gallo announced that all developer documentation is now available at docs.microsoft.com. I guess this means we stop complaining about MSDN?
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I'm in shock. docs.microsoft.com actually came up on my browser.
Marc
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So it takes about 20 clicks to get through the "Aren't We Great!" fluff to something useful, and when you get there, the page refreshes every two seconds (literally).
I should have known better than to even bother.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. Just like Git, but not
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A suspected arsonist is behind bars after police used data gleaned from the man's pacemaker with a warrant He was there, so he is a suspect.
Case closed 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"The focus of this preview release was adding new test cases to our project and cleaning up the source code. You can get the precompiled binaries on GitHub here and on Maven Central."[blogs.msdn.microsoft.com^] 
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It really does amaze me that I work with people who seem so unhappy with their work place and yet, aren’t making any effort to find another place to work. It's all in my head?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's all in my head?
Yes, including Maunder. Your hallucination has gotten out of hand.
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Whenever you start getting down on your job and work-place -- think of Elbonia...
![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Hey, if there's any solipsism going on, it must be in my head, not Kent's, because I'm just too perfect to be imagined by anyone else!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's all in my head?
It is?
Oh, good.
I was worried it might be in mine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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