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Using ‘If This Then That’ in the newsroom

IFTTT.com,  pronounced like ‘lift’ without the L, stands for If This Then That. It provides a light introduction to the principles of computer programming which is handy for students with little or no experience in this area.  In this example we create a simple ‘recipe’ which could be very useful in a newsroom. IFTTT allows […]

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So You Want to Learn to Code?

We are not suggesting that you give up studying journalism to become a computer programmer, but it worth having enough understanding to know how story ideas can be communicated online. HTML, in particular has a common sense logic to it and is not hard to learn. Database related programming tends to me more complex, but […]

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