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Video GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 2) 18

Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:17PM from the mine-bitcoins-instead-of-crafts-and-they'd-race-each-other-to-school dept.

As we said last week, "You can't teach all programming by using Minecraft to keep kids interested, but you can use Minecraft, Java, and Eclipse to give them a good start." That's what Tyler Kilgore and his colleagues at GameStart are doing. Watch today's video (number 2), go back to last week's video (number 1) if you missed it, and read both days' transcripts for the full scoop.

Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons 197

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 11, 2010 @11:18AM from the blowing-up dept.

jamax writes "According to the BBC: 'The Russian military has come up with an inventive way to deceive the enemy and save money at the same time: inflatable weapons. They look just like real ones: they are easy to transport and quick to deploy. You name it, the Russian army is blowing it up: from pretend tanks to entire radar stations.' But the interesting thing is these decoys are not dumb - actually they appear to be highly advanced for what I thought was a WWII-grade aerial photography countermeasures. Apparently they have heat signatures comparable with the military tech they represent, as well as the same radar signature."

Comment Use a simple LaTeX preprocessor (Score 1) 583

by Bramsted on Thursday January 10, 2002 @04:26PM (#2818856) Attached to: Writing Documentation

For the software project I'm working on, we needed a system that could produce .CHM (MS HTML Help) files and printed documentation.

We developed our own, very simple HTML like markup language. The documentation is then transformed into either HTML files, for input to the Microsft HTML Help compiler, or LaTeX files. The LaTeX compiler can produce either PostScript for the print shop or PDF files for download.

/B

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