Blog posts

    Building a mechanical keyboard

    Building mechanical keyboards is so much fun. Even though I own a few of them, I had never built one from scratch, until now. Let me share with you a few of the things I’ve learned since I started my journey into this hobby. There are many factors to consider when building a mechanical keyboard. […]

    My Hour of Code YouTube Playlist

    A few years ago I volunteered for Hour of Code. I visited my older son’s classroom, and it was rewarding to see all 25 first graders in the room deeply engaged in a coding activity. We also watched some videos. Here’s the playlist.

    Two Great Coding Books for Kids

    Earlier this year, when I started teaching programming to my kids (4 and 6 yrs old at the time of this writing), I was not sure where to start because you need to translate lots of knowledge that is usually targeted for adults into kid friendly language. I found these two books that really helped […]