Programming
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|status= Elective | |status= Elective | ||
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|discontinued= N/A | |discontinued= N/A | ||
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+ | '''Programming''' merit badge debuted on July 15th, 2013, at the [[2013 National Scout Jamboree]] which was held at [[The Summit Bechtel Reserve]], West Virginia, USA from July 15th - 24th, 2013. | ||
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Programming merit badge | ||
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Status: | Elective | |
Created: | 2013 | |
Discontinued: | no | |
BSA Advancement ID: | 153 | |
Requirements revision: | 2013 | |
Latest pamphlet revision: | 2013 |
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Programming merit badge debuted on July 15th, 2013, at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree which was held at The Summit Bechtel Reserve, West Virginia, USA from July 15th - 24th, 2013.
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Requirement resources
Many of the requirements can be satisfied using proprietary but free of charge shareware or Freeware as well as Open Source and Free Software programs.
1. How to Keep Children Safe Online From McAfee Protection
2. A Timeline of the History of the Computer - A History of the IEEE Computer Society - Computer History - Computer History Museum - The Virtual Museum of Computing - Historic Computer Images - CHAC History Pages - The History of Computers
4a. Computer hardware
4b. File Formats - Wotsit.org
4d. Sample Computer chip based devices: Palm OS Devices
5b. A Complete List of Programming Languages
5e. How Internet Infrastructure Works
- Lesson Videos: Internet Explorer
6. OpenOffice.org is a free (LGPLv3) office suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database programs. It can open and save to Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint files.
- Google Docs contains basic spreadsheet, word processor and presentation software. It imports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formatted files. Requires only a web browser and a (free) Google account.
6a. See the sample duty roster table in the Camping Worksheet Req. 4b.
6b. See the sample food list & cost table in the Cooking Worksheet Req. 3c & 5b.
- Microsoft Excel - Many great tutorials on using Excel.
- Lesson Video: Create a Budget in an Excel Spreadsheet
6b. Mail Merge Lesson Video: Mail Merge Word and Excel
- Microsoft Word - Great Microsoft Word tutorials.
- Mail Merge in MS Word - Great mail merge tutorial.
6e. Court of Honor samples and links to a number of other sites.
- Here are Campfire songs, skits, and cheers.
- Lesson Videos: How to Use Google
6f. The Citizenship in the Community #8 public presentation...of your community
could be given as a Communications #3 five-minute speech
using the techniques from Photography #4b to produce a picture story
and Art #1 to tell a story with...pictures
which could be developed into the Computers #6e short presentation.
- Microsoft PowerPoint - Great Microsoft PowerPoint tutorials.
- Lesson Videos: PowerPoint Presentation Basics - PowerPoint Presentation - More PowerPoint
- Cub Scout: Communicating Belt Loop & Pin - Webelos: Communicator - Merit Badges: Public Speaking - Communication
- Speeches & Presentations: How to Choose a topic - How to Write a Speech - How to Give a Speech - Ideas from eHow
- Lesson Videos: ExpertVillage: Giving a Speech - Public Speaking Tips - Public Speaking - Eye Contact - Hand Gestures - Props
6g. Paint.net is a free image editing and photo manipulation program for Windows PCs. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of powerful tools.
- Irfanview is freeware (no cost for noncommercial use) to download and use.
- Picasa is free of charge photo organization and editing tool from Google that can help you make web pages, slide shows and share your photos. A similar application for the Macintosh is iPhoto.
- For those looking for more advanced photo editing software (or those using Linux) there's The G.I.M.P.. It is a good choice for those who can't use or afford Adobe Photoshop.
- Microsoft Outlook great email tutorials.
- Lesson Videos: Outlook Email
7b. Sketchup is a "3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you place your models in Google Earth".
7d. NVU - free html editor with WYSIWYG capability for building web pages. Also, Linux users can use Quanta Plus (which is also open source, and similar to NVU.)
- HTML Programming - great tutorials.
- Notepad++ - A more stable free HTML editor also with WYSIWYG and a spacebar HTML tag entry
8.
- 8a. See US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8.8: to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
- 8b. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
- 8c. Digital Rights Management
9. Computer Science Career Guide
Related awards
6e. The Citizenship in the Community #8 public presentation...of your community
could be given as a Communications #3 five-minute speech
using the techniques from Photography #4b to produce a picture story
and Art #1 to tell a story with...pictures
which could be developed into the Computers #6e short presentation.
7d. Computers #7d "Design a webpage…" is very similar to Communications #7b "Create a Web page…".
Science-related awards
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Hobby-related awards
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See also
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General Merit Badge information
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