Programming

Cropping scanned answer sheets with a QR code as the anchor (Python + OpenCV)

I'm an elementary school teacher in Korea and I build small tools for my own grading. The slowest part was never the grading itself. It was sorting…

CGPA to GPA Conversion: How to Convert a 10-Point CGPA to a 4.0 GPA (and When Not To)

If you studied in India or anywhere else that uses a 10-point CGPA, you've probably been asked for your "GPA on a 4.0 scale" when applying for a mas…

AI Tools for Students: Study Smarter in 2026

The short version: student AI tools in 2026 are no longer chatbots you paste essay prompts into. The useful ones now read your assigned PDFs, ground…

Python Course for Beginners: Seeking Feedback on Structure, Depth, and Suitability

Introduction and Course Overview The Python Essentials: Practical Programming Fundamentals course, designed for absolute beginners, emerges as a res…

Meet Modi: An AI-Powered Learning Assistant Built for Students

Introducing Modi Your learning. Your pieces. Your path. We're building Modi , an AI-powered learning assistant within Modupath, with a simple idea i…

Bridging the Gap: Designing a Cybersecurity and AI-Focused DevOps Course for Undergraduates Lacking Foundational Training

Introduction to DevOps and Platform Engineering In a landscape where Cybersecurity and AI dominate the curriculum , the absence of formal DevOps tra…

Easylang: A Simple, Browser-Based Programming Language in the Spirit of the Old Home Computer BASIC

Sustainable Coding for Students: Can Better Programming Help Reduce Technology's Environmental Impact?

A student writes a program that performs the same calculation thousands of times, even though the answer never changes. The program works. The outpu…

The Origins of Calculus: From Newton & Leibniz to Modern Online Calculators

Educational Guide & History Calculus is widely regarded as one of humanity's greatest intellectual achievements. Developed to model continuous c…

Balancing Realism and Gameplay: Developing an Engaging Educational Game for Network Intrusion Concepts

Introduction: Teaching Network Intrusion Through Gaming Explaining the intricacies of a zero-day exploit to a novice in cybersecurity is challenging…

Testing automata-theory exercises in the browser: a regex flavor for CS coursework

If you've ever taught or taken a formal languages course, you know the workflow: the exercise says write a regular expression for all strings over {…

The death of web development education

Exploring Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI: A Technical Overview

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence by enabling machines to produce new, original content ranging from text…

Naza, an O-Level tutor for WAEC, NECO, and JAMB

Naza is an O-Level tutor for WAEC, NECO, and JAMB. It is live at naza.nathaniel.name.ng . Students work through English, Mathematics, Physics, and C…

Building Memplua: A Local AI Pipeline for Turning System Audio Into Obsidian Notes

I started building Memplua because I wanted my knowledge base to fill itself. Not literally, of course. The real problem was the gap between consumi…

India’s Top 10 IoT Platforms for Education in 2026

IoT education in India is moving beyond basic Arduino experiments. Students are increasingly working with ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, sensors, MQTT, da…

The AI Supercycle: is it a bubble? Why railways and dot-com already answered

The question everyone asks about AI is "is it a bubble, yes or no?" That is the wrong question, and the previous nine chapters explain why. Railways…

Питон по Пассову 2: методика изучения иностранных языков программирования

В статье рассматривается применение принципов методики обучения иностранным языкам при построении занятий по программированию: от имитативных и подс…

Why "community" is quietly becoming a growth channel, not a vanity metric

If you're building a SaaS product or an indie project, you've probably thought about "adding a community" at some point and then deprioritized it. F…

What I learned from my first-time mentoring experience

I have been working in the tech industry for more than 25 years in various roles (in IT, cybersecurity, and cloud), and after gaining years of exper…

I Built HSKKit: A Different Way to Learn HSK 3.0 Vocabulary

Learning Chinese vocabulary looks simple at first. You get a word list, memorize the words, and move on to the next level. But while looking at how…

CYBER SECURITY EDUCATION AND ONLINE SAFETY

Inside Cybersecurity: An Interview with an Early Code Institute Cyber security Instructor. _ INTRODUCTION * _ * Cybersecurity has become an increasi…

smolts: a pedagogical IDE for a teaching language (eighty-twenty news)

A Beginner's Guide to Starting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Everything you need to go from a blank text editor to a working, useful webpage Every website you've ever visited — no matter how complex — is built…

A Bootcamp Lab for Stress-Testing AI Coding Models on a $0 Budget

Lectures about AI are cheap. Labs that test AI are rare. If you teach a bootcamp, skip the "here's how LLMs work" slide deck and run a model evaluat…

The Badge Was Issued, but the Goal Wasn't Achieved.

A couple of years ago, users of the Isovalent Labs platform regularly complained that they hadn't received their badge after completing one of our h…

Online Python events between Aug 17 - Aug 26

I found the following Python-related online events for the next 10 days. Online events remove the physical barrier of who can participate. What rema…

Shiksha AI & Mitra AI: Real-Time Spoken English & Roleplay Voice Agent for Bharat

Created for the Voice for Bharat Challenge 2026 — 10 Days of Voice Agents Challenge Powered by **Murf Falcon * (the fastest TTS API), LiveKit Agents…

VidyaRoom - What If a Lecture Could Understand You Back? — Building an AI-Powered Learning Experience

Turning Every Lecture Into an Interactive Learning Experience with AI What if a lecture could understand you back? In college, I’ve noticed somethin…

How We Built a 160-Article AI Education Platform with Next.js and Static HTML

How We Built a 160-Article AI Education Platform with Next.js and Static HTML Three months ago, I launched IAcademy — an AI education platform in Sp…