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This page contains a bunch of useful and/or interesting links. Some of these are utilitarian, some of them are great time wasters when you're bored, and some of them are just neat to look at.

Discussion

• forum.HappyCoding.io
• Processing Forum
• Java-Gaming.org
• Discourse Meta

Blogs

• Coding Horror
• Stack Overflow Blog
• The Daily WTF
• GitHub Blog

Outreach

These organizations help reach out to girls, minorities, and other under-represented groups in Computer Science. Some of them offer curriculums specifically designed for this, or they hold workshops and educational camps that you (or your kids) can attend.

• Girls Make Games
• Black Girls Code
• Women Who Code
• Yes We Code
• Code for America
• Girl Develop It
• Hear Me Code
• Code for Progress
• All Star Code
• School for Poetic Computation
• Women Interactive
• The Iron Yard
• She++
• Girls Who Code
• Made with Code
• Girls in Tech
• Ladies Learning Code
• Code Now
• The Ada Initiative
• Tech Girlz
• Women in Technology
• Uplift Inc
• Finding Ada
• Code/Interactive
• She's Geeky
• Women 2.0
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Learn

• Daniel Shiffman
• Coding Rainbow
• Computer Science Education Week
• Hour of Code
• Code.org
• Code Academy
• Khan Academy
• W3Schools

Code Jams

Code jams are like programming competitions, but with less of a focus on strict rules and more of a focus on the fun of getting something done in a short amount of time. You'd be surprised what you can do in 48 hours, or in a month!

• Ludum Dare
• Compo Hub
• One Game a Month

Twitter

Art

• Aaron Koblin
• Casey REAS
• Ben Fry
• Processing Exhibition
• Processing.js Exhibition

Stack Overflow

• Processing Supertag
  • (Individual tags: processing, processing.js, p5.js and processing-ide)
• Jekyll Tag
• GitHub Pages tag
• User Experience
• Arqade
• Code Review
• Computer Science
• Game Development
• Open Data
• Open Source
• Programmers

Wikipedia

These are fun entry points into some really interesting topics. Down the rabbit hole! 🐰

• Emergence
• Creative Coding
• The Singularity
• Ant Colony Optimization
• Swarm Intelligence
• Evolutionary Computation
• Cellular Automaton
• Flocking

Reference

• Processing Reference
• Processing.js Reference
• P5.js Reference
• Java API

GitHub

• Happy Coding
• Processing Foundation
• Processing Core
• P5.js

Game Engines

• libGDX
  • If you're interested in game development, learning libGDX should be your goal.
• JMonkeyEngine
  • I've never actually used JMonkeyEngine, but their 3D demos are pretty impressive.
• JogAmp
  • Not really a game engine, but an OpenGL wrapper that lets you do OpenGL from Java.

Sound

Need sounds for your program or game?

• Freesound.org
  • Find public domain sounds and music.
• sfxr
  • Generate chiptune sound files.
• bfxr
  • Sequel to sfxr.

Code Challenges

• Code Golf
  • Check out the graphical-output tag!
• Code Hunt
  • Programming "game" by Microsoft. They do interesting stuff with data collection.
• Project Euler
  • More math-oriented programming challenges.
• Google Code Jam
• CodingBat
• CodeEval
• CodeChef

Coding for Younger Kids

• Scratch
• Secret Coders
• Lightbot

Data Mining

• Weka
• Kaggle
  • Offers big data sets and interesting competitions about analyzing it. Sometimes prizes include money or job interviews.

Other

• Google Summer of Code
  • Internships working on open source projects through Google!