http://heatherpayne.ca/figuring-out-how-to-engage-kids-in-an-after-school-club-for-web-makers
New York City gets a software engineering high school
Computer Science Careers
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~simhaweb/misc/cscareers.html
An excellent article talking about computer careers. Really talks about some common questions young people have about computer tech careers.
30 Free Programming eBooks
http://citizen428.net/blog/2010/08/12/30-free-programming-ebooks/
Since free is always a good feature, here is a list of free programming books for a variety of languages
What I learned about the future of computing from delving into IT’s past
“With schools failing to get the next generation excited about computers, silicon.com chief reporter Nick Heath argues that lessons need to revisit how the information age got started.”
NXT-G Quick Guide
http://www.legoengineering.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124
Examples of programming challenges for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Software (NXT-G)
NXT-Code Blog
This site has some interesting robots to build using the NXTs. Usually includes building instructions and the code to run the bot.
It is not the best of sites, however! Popups all over the place, hard to read white text.
Lego building tutorial
This is old (2002) but still gives some good info, especially about gearing.
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games?
http://ask.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/152228
Lots of comments on what tool to use to teach students about programming games. Some of the usual tools like Scratch and Game Maker are mentioned but there are more professional tools used too!
Collection of tutorials for NI LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS (LVLM)
https://sites.google.com/site/robtorok/lvlm-tutorials/
Some tutorials written by a teacher who wanted to learn LabVIEW for programming the NXTs but couldn’t find much about it so these tutorials fill that gap.
