The Beginner's Mind
Since we’ve started writing books for kids, we’ve seen and heard from hundreds of our readers that they “love” our books, or that they’re having “fun” with our books. These aren’t words that you typically hear adults say about computer
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 in order to to encourage long-term thinking (the foundation uses 5 digit years to solve the deca-millenium bug, which will strike in 7,985 years). The foundation’s name was coined by Brian Eno when he
Last week, Apple announced the latest version of their language for writing apps for iOS: Swift 2. They also announced that they’ll be making Swift open source and that, in the future, app developers will be able to create iOS
Last week was the launch of our first book, Coding with JavaScript for Dummies. We put out a call to action, and boy, did you answer! We were tweeted about, tagged in Facebook posts and sent a slew of congratulatory
It cannot be helped. If you’re a teacher, there will always be more to learn and there will almost always be at least one person in the room who knows more than you do about a particular subject. If you
This is a big week in the history of WatzThis?. Our company has just turned 6 months old, and we’re officially releasing our first book into the world. This book was challenging and fun to write. We’ve packed it with
What Does WatzThis? Do? WatzThis? is an unusual company. In this week’s newsletter, we’ll shed some light on just what it is we do, how we do it, and why. What is WatzThis? First and foremost, WatzThis? is an experiment.
Eva and I are hard at work on a new book for Wiley Publishing, titled Coding JavaScript For Dummies. The book is scheduled to be released in spring 2015 and we have more than 25% of it written now. In