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Monthly Archives: April 2017

death — This is the fifth, and last in a series of posts on how to make a simple maze game. The first four posts can be found below. Initialized all of the variables and called a few functions. Described keyDownHandler function that executes based on where the player goes. Explained the […]

How to make a simple maze game: Part 5, the ...

April 12, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

I want to preface this post with I fully advocate for having children when you are ready to have them (or not having them at all if that’s what you want). You obviously should not read this post and go, “Wow, little humans seem totally beneficial to someone starting a […]

Why Having Kids Is an Asset to an Entrepreneur

April 10, 2017 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

road in North Dakota — Since I have been working non-stop lately, I decided to take a page from my earlier years of blogging and on the weekends just write about whatever was on my mind today, which was … Did you ever read a science fiction book or watch a movie where there is […]

My Alternate Universes

April 9, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday! It’s time for another one of our Freebie Fridays, where we provide you with awesome teacher resources. The freebie for today is a pdf titled “Grandpa Drives To Texas” from our game, “AzTech Games.” “Grandpa Drives To Texas” is a pdf of a word problem that computes distance […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games – Grandpa Drives To Texas

April 7, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from July 17, 2015 “Productivity tip: Don’t read your email“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. People often ask me how I get so much done. Over and […]

Throwback Thursday – Productivity tip: Don’t read your email

April 6, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

I have hired exactly one developer who was self-taught who did an adequate job. I don’t mean that I am biased against developers who taught themselves a particular language, because, really, after you’ve learned one programming language it’s pretty easy to pick up another one. Once you’ve got down the […]

My prejudice against “self-taught” devs

April 5, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / DevDiary tagged Code Talk / devdiary by AnnMaria De Mars

scab Vendor: confessions of a tattoo artist — I can be really stupid sometimes. Yes, hard to believe, I know. A few years ago, on my blog for The Julia Group, I did a series of posts on 55 things I had learned in 55 years. Last night, I wrote one on the biggest thing I had learned […]

What I Learned by Listening: Backstories

April 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / podcast by AnnMaria De Mars

squash — I the first post in this series, we just initialized all of the variables and called a few functions. The past two posts focused on just one function each, The keyDownHandler function that executes based on where the player goes. The render function that draws the game board, and In […]

How to make a simple maze game: Part 4

April 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

prairie dog — An elder told this story today: When I was a toddler I went with my grandmother to a prairie dog town. My grandma got down on her hands and knees and began to examine the little white rocks scattered around the entrance to the burrow. The little white rocks were considered sacred because they […]

The Story of the Prairie Dog

April 1, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars