CeeBot is a brand new concept with which you will learn programming while having fun. The programming language you’ll use is very similar to those used by professional programmers to develop their products. CeeBot introduces many modern concepts found in today’s most popular environments like C++, C# or Java.

After teaching you the syntax of CeeBot, progressive exercises will lead you to use important concepts such as variables, loops, conditional branching, functions, classes, objects, etc.

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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

In Alice’s interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

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In 1995, Cerego began as a privately funded research-oriented think-tank, with a mission to enhance the efficiency of the human learning process by focusing on the biological and psychological requirements for learning.

Based on years of applied research, Cerego has built adaptive, web-based applications that accelerate knowledge acquisition. Cerego’s patented core learning engine is driven by algorithms that generate optimal learning schedules for discrete chunks of declarative learning content, called “items”. This intelligent scheduling is achieved by gathering metadata on individual user performance and modeling memory decay patterns at the granular level of every item.

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Mission to Learn Blog Features Article: “26 Learning Games to Change the World”
By jtcobb on Apr 29, 2008 in Games & Widgets

Jeff Cobb has a fantastic web site called Mission to Learn. Among the myriad of useful articles and discussions featured on Mission to Learn is an article that lists 26 educational video games you can get for free online (only one costs money). The amazing thing about these games is that they’re largely focused on solving real problems facing our globe. Whether you’re a video game advocate or not, these video games empower kids to make positive global change in ways most classrooms cannot. Arguably, visual learning utilizing electronic media and tools has become a prevalent learning option, especially for the below 40 set. Most of these video games offer a positive ethical approach to a deeper understanding of issues such as world hunger, nuclear threat and disarmament, Global Warming, Darfur Devastation, 3rd World Farmer, and many, many more.

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What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool. We make codes so we can send secret messages to our friends. And we try to figure out what other people are writing about by breaking their codes. It’s a lot of fun.

On this site, you can learn all about codes and ciphers, play lots of games and activities, and get to know each of us - Crypto Cat™, Decipher Dog™, Rosetta Stone, Slate, Joules, T.Top, and, of course, our leader CSS Sam.

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