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«Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing»

«Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts. We work with schools and teachers to integrate Bootstrap into their algebra classes and technology programs, as well as parents and afterschool programs across the country.»

«Program by Design is an innovative project for computing education that combines motivation with principles. On the surface we use engaging contexts—our “hello world” program is an animation, and students have the opportunity to program games, mashups, phones, etc.—while teaching a principled and scalable approach to computing. We have spent over fifteen years developing this curriculum, and have offerings at the middle-school, high-school and university levels (roughly, ages 10 and above). Our material is even used for in-house corporate training.»

«is a network of developers aged 18 and under.
Its primary focus is to find and foster the young children and teenagers who are driven to teaching themselves how to code, how to program the world around them. This is a mighty challenge though well-supported with free tutorials online, but inevitably an isolating and solitary activity.

There is no Computer Clubhouse in France, by the way. «The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.»

Examples of French words and phrases used by English speakers. A cool wikipedia list!

A participant in several hackatons is frustrated to see people not coding, just demoing previously done apps. Under-designed events?

Interestingly, there is a debate about hackaton not necessarily being code sprints.

«Just semi-hosted a hackathon recently. Key elements:
- good desks / places to sit and code
- reliable internet
- free dinner, midnight and/or 3am food
- healthy food in addition to junky food
- some like energy drinks
- don't have people pitch their ideas
- have an official wiki for people to post their team+idea
- tell contestants your judging criteria before the hackathon starts
(and make sure judges know it)
- keep presentations speedy, with a gong to keep people honest
(<5mins for final demos)

An open source generator that compile Yahoo! Pipes into Python scripts. Run them on your server, output JSON.

Run Yahoo Pipes on Google App Engine, thanks to a hosted pipe2py compiler. Powerful.