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If you're looking for something a bit more advanced, but still not jumping right into the deep end check out our iPad app hyperPad (https://www.hyperpad.com). We never intended it for teaching kids to code, but schools and teachers from the around the world love it for introducing younger kids to code.

It has a lot of the the coding principles applied in a visual even driven environment making it fun and easy to create cool interactive games.

We're also working on adding other cool things like HTTP requests and sockets so users can connect to servers to send/receive data.


I'd like to add our app hyperPad to this list https://itunes.apple.com/app/id886106438?mt=8

It's a bit more visual programming rather than actual code, but programming concepts still apply.

We're being used by hundreds of schools around the world teaching kids to code :).


Our app hyperPad (https://www.hyperpad.com) is being widely used to teach kids programming. It was never intended for that, but it's really interesting to see schools around the world using it to teach kids to code.

We actually built it as an easy way to make games, but hey, if people are using it to learn, we won't complain ;).

Since our app is primarily a tool to make games and other interactive apps, we take a different approach to our behaviour system. The hyperPad behaviour system is our take on a node based event driven programming language that lets users focus on the design and the fun parts. But still give them the power they need :).


Shameless plug.. I think our app hyperPad fits the list https://www.hyperpad.com

Great for mobile games and other interactive apps. Also awesome for prototyping UI and animations. :)


OCE is starting to. There is the OCE Smart Start fund and it is fairly simple process to apply for the grant. There is not too much of an ecosystem of support, but the money is nice. http://www.oce-ontario.org/programs/entrepreneurship-program...


Not sure why they are excluding older entrepreneurs (18-29 is the required age). I went to UofT, I'm in my mid-30s and in the Toronto area .. I get excluded from the whole Waterloo ecosystem, and programs such as this one. What I have around me is Mars, which doesn't make sense to me. Frankly, there seems to be a better tech culture around Ryerson (again, targeted at their students) than for my alma mater. We have Mars close by but as you can tell, I don't see how it benefits fledgling entrepreneurs.


We're working on it for iPad. http:///www.hyperpad.com Still fairly early, and not where we want it. But it's coming along...


You're focusing on books at the moment? looks like a neat little platform. Kudos, going to pass this along to some animator friends


Yes, but we're thinking of changing to mobile games (what we originally started with).


Have you looked at the Stinky Board? http://stinkyboard.com/ Should be able to map standard WSAD keys to it, then use mouse for aiming.


Looks like a great product, but what a terrible name


Thanks for this - this looks cool!


Can this perspective/stack a bunch of layers in a single psd to get a result similar to the images on bottom 1/3rd of the page (http://perspectivemockups.com/v2/wp-content/themes/Perspecti...)

We have files with multiple layers and need a quick and easy way to display the layers in a perspective stack.


The Unreal Tournament series has some of the best AI. They react and behave very human. In UT 2003 (or 2004 can't remember) they even respond to voice commands.

There was even a programmed Unreal Tournament bot that passed the turing test.


This was our experience as well. We used it for a few things, but in the end it was faster for us to just create a @2x image.


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