Author: annboyles

I’m a big fan of the productivity/organizational platform Notion! I’ve hosted a public workshop to teach others (especially ADHD-brained folks) how they can use Notion to organize their creative lives and coordinate their household tasks. I’ve also published the template I created and used to move across the country in January of 2024! Moving House…

I’m always impressed and delighted by the fun and creative work my students have produced. Below is a small selection. Learn About Antarctica (by Mateo) Mateo created this delightful interactive piece where you can explore and learn about Antarctica (use the arrow keys to start moving!) Check it out here. The Quest of Orpheus (by…

One of the fabulous things about being a teacher and a computer science curriculum developer with a huge amount of freedom is the ability to explore, play, and tinker with new things! I played with a variety of frameworks, libraries, and languages while teaching at PHS. Most of it made it to the classroom, some…

p5.js is a creative coding library that makes a wonderful introduction to coding for students. The graphical component helps illuminate fundamental concepts (loops! variables! arrays!), and there’s so much room for student creativity! It also plays nicely with other libraries and frameworks so you can continue to build on it. Below is a small selection…

Students learned the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create simple interactive websites. From there, we added in Node.js/Express.js and Socket.io to create full stack applications, and also explored some REST APIs and SDKs. Below are a few example projects that I created to introduce students to some of the key concepts. Want more?…

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