Flink, another great data processing platform, has been a rising star this year. It is a high performance stream and batch data processing data platform, with fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed data stream computation at its core.
Here are several links and resources to get you started.
Holiday is just around the corner and it's time to order gifts from "Santa". This year, I decided to give my son something different, something other than candies, chocolates, pokemon cards, lego, etc.
Since he has been exposed to basic programming concepts through code.org and Scratch. So..., how about a programmable Robot for this Christmas? Sounds good.
After doing some research and comparison, we ordered Ozobot Evo. To get started out of box, it supports a color-code based language for various actions, e.g. follow the black line and move forward, stop at the red color, rotating at the blue color and play color light and music, etc. You can also customize the action with a mobile app on the phone or tablet with an environment similar to Scratch.
When he grows up a bit more, we might introduce marty the robot to him. It looks and works more like the robots we know about. It also teaches some real mechanical dynamics for the kids.
Here are some notes I took during the research, hope it will be useful to you.
More advanced than Bit, supports the colored line language and a Scratch like visual programming language, can control the robot using a mobile app, supports social interactions with friends’ robots.
This is for more grown-up kids, more makebot-like robot, fully programable, start with Scratch, then move to Python. The way they dance together looks so funny ;-)
