Hello all again
It has been an exciting 24 hours. I have signed up to volunteer at both the Gutenburg Project and librivox. On a more personal note, I've welcomed a new niece to the family. Welcome baby M.
So, for today's links I would like to share Librivox , essentially this project works much like Gutenburg and Bartleby, except produces audiobooks.
Secondly, for those of you who may be more math and science inclined, I have some computer science links.
The first is hosted by Stanford Universities Engineering department and includes complete well-done video recordings of lectures from basic to more advanced topics. As well as handouts, tests, and necessary software.
A program called Alice is the second link. This nifty little program was designed by Carnegie Mellon in order to lower the boundary to computer science. The program features 3D characters that you use computer-code like commands to move around. The program itself is free and comes with some basic tutorials. If you want to do more than play around you can buy the textbook, which is a bit pricey. I managed to learn to put together a fairly basic nativity scene animation in a couple hours without the textbook. I've embedded a video showing a simple demonstration and explanation of the program(you may need to switch to full screen in order to see the whole thing.
The third resource, Starlogo TNG , is produced by the good folks at MIT to lower the entry boundary into programming. You can create species, order them to move, and create games. Youtube has some decent demonstrations for this program.
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