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If your cousins have iOS devices they should check out Hopscotch. ( http://gethopscotch.com ) It works on iPhone and iPad and you can use it to learn to code and make your own game…

Hopscotch | New York, NY ONSITE| Full time Senior Product Manager At Hopscotch, we’re reinventing programming. We believe that anyone should be able to code. We are a small team of…

What about UIAppearance? You can specify appearance for a UILabel inside a specific container type. http://nshipster.com/uiappearance/

How did Norvig know about Ratatouille 6 years before it came out?

Agreed, would love to use this to generate markdown!

Our startup Hopscotch http://www.gethopscotch.com>Hopscotch ; is in the midst of something similar. We came from NY and have managed to do it very much on the cheap by staying with…

I'm a big fan of the js widgets- jquery-ui is starting to look a bit old-fashioned and the design on the bootstrap widgets looks very clean. If you end up doing anything very compl…

Thanks, I do agree that it needs more goals to be built in, especially if we want it to become stickier and more addictive. The incredible machine sounds cool, I will chcek it out.…

Thanks for the insight. The reason the dinosaur is a bit cutesy is that we wanted to appeal to both genders. A dinosaur devouring jedi might get boys interested but would probably …

Exactly! The fact that it seems so unattainable to you is the problem we are trying to solve. Being a programmer myself I know that it can be a challenging field but I also know th…

I think programmers themselves have a bias against getting started easily. Everyone knows how much they had to struggle to get their environment set up so they expect it to be a ha…

That's an interesting comment, it sounds like you've experienced the frustrations of programming first hand. Basically what you're talking about is the issue we want to solve. Ther…

Well, there is a slightly buggy webview version at: http://gethopscotch.com/index.html But since it only really works on iPad we decided to release it as an app.

This app is a graphical programming environment for kids to learn coding by creating animations. Although we released it to the app store it's still more of a beta version and we w…

I like underscore.js although I'm not sure if _.each will be faster than jquery or not. http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/#each I've also heard that the coffeescript imple…