After I wrote my article on JSFiddle @vidallia, among others, pointed me to CodePen: The two have a number of things in common, including the four window functionality and the basic purpose of developing

In the vast breadth of web development techniques, there are three constants: HTML, CSS(styling) and Javascript(scripting). You may wrap it up with different Javascript Libraries or different HTML version

Through my mysterious day job, I am part of a group that talks about different organizational challenges that face our company. One of the issues that we are working is how we can improve the diversity

So now that I’m about two months into Steemit, I think it is time for a bit of reflection. I didn’t come into Steemit with a pre-established fanbase, so I’ve thought often about how to build my user base

I've been talking about learning Python in a number of my posts. I just discovered one other resource that I'd like to share: I'm a big fan and frequent purchaser of Humble Bundles and it looks like they

Pathfinder skills are slightly different than its ancestor, D&D 3.5 or its modern equivalents of D&D 4th or 5th edition. I thought over three posts I'd run through the skills while having a little

When I was mentioning having to learn a new language in a past post, @robertlyon directed me toward and I am so glad he did. Repl.it is a web-based development environment for a huge number of languages.

I am fortunate to get time off during the holidays from my "mysterious day job" (hint: it involves programming websites). After almost two weeks of not thinking about my codebase, I sit down

Happy New Year fellow Steemians! 2017 was an interesting year! Politics was all kinds of crazy for good or bad and I am not sure if anything will ever be quite the same. 2017 was also the year I rediscovered

In about a month, my Intro to CS class I am teaching will graduate from Snap! to Python. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Python is not one of the many languages which with I've dabbled. So I have a month

The addition of traits was one of the more subtle changes between 3.5 D&D and Pathfinder and one which I initially overlooked. From a pure rules standpoint, they are not that impressive. Each trait

Over five years I started a volunteer opportunity with the robotics team at our local high school. They already had a mechanical engineer mentor and were looking for a programming mentor. My wife, a math

Happy Holidays to all my new Steemit friends out there! I am so grateful I found this community and have been welcomed into its arms. I hope everybody has a great time with friends and family. Remember

One of the underemphasized parts of making a character is writing a character background. Some barely give it more than a brief sentence description, others write novellas describing their complete character

As I have been a volunteer for TEALS, one thing has become clear: we will have to utilize remote teaching if we are going to be able to reach all students. As it stands right now, most schools do not have

Today I'm going to do something totally crazy and combine two of my favorite topics: board games and teaching computer science. One of the principles we teach in an Introduction to Computer Science class

In my Introduction to Computer Science course, we are targetting students who have little to no programming experience. To students like these, traditional languages may be too complicated or intimidating.

No sooner than I posted my last post, then wouldn't you know it, one of my favorite board game review team, Shut Up & Sit Down, posts their review of Gloomhaven: It's a long video and it does a great

I don't know how many people in Steemit back Kickstarters on a regular basis, but I have been known to succumb to a few, especially when it comes to coop board games. Sometimes you order something, and

One of the best ways to create characters and a whole party is what is often called “Session 0”. The goal of session 0 is not to dive headfirst into the plot, but instead to build up a party and a shared