Second Life water is almost wet

I must say thet when faced with latest regular download of the Second Life client from Linden Labs the other day, which has now grown to around 32Mb, I did so with my now sense of resignation, but I must say the effect this latest release seems to have had on the visual quality of the sea surrounding my island is profound, well done LL for that, now I find myself starting to look forward to the next version.

PHP Live

I have just completed the upload of my first book in the PHP series, Introducing PHP. The tutorial includes a live interpreter, PHP-Interactive, so you just copy and paste the code out into the editor window to see it run, no need for ftp or access to a cgi enabled web server. Please feel free to come over and give it try and let us know what you think.

Learn HTML at Shimmer Island

If you look on the first floor of the beach house, you will see that I have installed Starting HTML. This is the first in a series of short tutorials, that like our other programming self paced learning includes an on-line interpreter, so you will be able to run all your HTML withhout the need to leave Shimmer Island. You can take a look and tryout the HTML interpreter by Clicking here.

AI Chatbot Zaphod

I have just built and installed Zaphod. He is linked to an AI (Artificial Intelligence) engine at pandorabot. To have a conversation with Zaphod just Touch him on the head and from the drop down menu select Activate , Hush puts him back to sleep, and talk using Chat. I am currently training him in the art of Shimmer speak. Having tried some of the conversational engines in the past, I do feel there is some potential here, so do please let me know how you get on.

New C programming volume added

Just added the latest volume of notes to the interactive C Programming rack. Come along and try out our C tutorial with online compiler, and do let us know your thoughts on the materials please.

Blog from a Shimmer Island visitor

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hi this is LULU this is cool i would like to put my blog in SL

Lulu Minnelli

CSS text styling tutorial

Have installed the first in a series of CSS tutorials on the first floor of the beach house. The facility includes an on-line interpreter, so you can design and run your all at the same time without the need to leave Shimmer Island. if you would like to take a look at the CSS interpreter click here.

Interactive JavaScript

I have just installed the first volume of my JaavScript course on the first floor of the beach house. Students can read through the tutorial and then by clicking on the Try it Live panel run the scripts in real time, modify them and run them again. If you have tried this facility, then please feel free to comment on this post and let know what you thought of it as a learning experience. Bye for now Skipper Abel

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Excellent idea!

Desideria Stockton

Blog from a Shimmer Island visitor

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Hi from Lola, I really enjoyed the learning trials

LusciousLola Losangeles

Welcome from Skipper Abel

Hi everyone, I shall be using this blog to post news and developments from Shimmer-Island. Here the whole concept is for a virtual world, where both learning and persona can be realized to such a degree that students move around in the comfort of a physically familiar and aesthetically pleasing environment, selecting materials and experiences that suite their own immediate needs and or those of collaborative learning activities. Bye for now Skipper Abel