We have finally put the Monster Coding app online! Please beware, we are still very much in the alpha stage, as I’ve been reworking things like loading order, as well as concatenating files, which can sometimes lead to unpredicted glitches. I had hoped to keep the initial load time as skinny as possible, but in an app that requires 3 or 4MB for the full data and app to load, concatenating and minifying is about the best I can do. I am looking to GZIP as well, as I know Amazon’s Cloudfront supports that, I’ve just never done it before. Also, I’ve been doing mostly mobile app development in recent years, and haven’t had to pay much attention to SEO. Looks like there are all kinds of weird new tags to worry about, as well as dealing with outputting HTML pages just for the crawlers, as both the website and the app for Monster Coding are Javascript Template based, using Backbone.js and Dust.js.
I will be redoing all of the English audio hopefully this week, as I begin writing our Hour of Code tutorial. Right now there are only a few lessons online: the Background, Scale, Pixels, and Random, along with just 2 keyboarding activities. I have more keyboarding and a new Math section that I will put up as soon as I finish the Hour of Code tutorial. The deadline is Oct 1, so I’d like to be done with the tutorial well before that date. You’ll find it here live as soon as I have it done! I’ll be adding a Contact Us form soon too, so people can send us inquiries and suggestions. Overall a very exciting week for Monster Coding.
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