Thursday, 29 September 2011

Computing resources

Thanks to the very nice people at Computers at School, I've got some pretty cool links. Such as
  • Lightbot - game that you solve with tiny programs of instructions
  • Manufactoria - move a robot, abit like a Turing machine
  • Proganimate - write flowcharts that become programs and watch the programs run

Links at http://delicious.com/andydiament/computing 'cos I'm too lazy to copy them all here
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Google Body

Have a look at Google Body at http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ Look inside the body. However, it does not work as default on all browsers because of browser settings. Here is the text of a batch file that works at Penwith College to launch it in Chrome. cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\ chrome --ignore-gpu-blacklist http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ The key thing is to launch with the --ignore-gpu-blacklist to turn on something that the policy turns off Read more!