Trying Koding

I've been looking around, mostly frustrated for not knowing which browser based IDE I should be using. I do believe cloud IDE's are the way of the future, but since I'm using mostly a Chromebook these days, I'm kind of forced into this option, especially since I don't really feel like modifying my OS to do a dual boot with Linux or something.
Many of the Cloud based IDE's seem either overly complicated or overly simplified. Some cost money, some don't have the language I want, there's always some little thing that keeps me from taking the plunge into signing up to try this or that solution. I just feel that there should be some kind of option for newbies that don't want to get so simple as to use the silly coding environments designed for kids. There should be an option for educated adults to begin their foray into the computing world.
I've finally decided just to go for it and sign up for a Koding account.
The first thing I notice, I can sign in with Github account, so fairly sure this means fully automated integration with a file sharing system. I really don't know how to use Github, either, so I'll have to be learning that as I go, too.
I'm going to be using Koding University (their name for documentation and guides, etc.), specifically the 'getting started with python' section. It's not like I have much experience with python, but you've got to start somewhere.
There's a glitch in the tutorial. It doesn't tell me where in the directory to save the 'hello.py' file. I'm just trying to do a 'hello world' app here, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure this out. The point of this exercise is not to learn how to program, we're just learning how to use the environment in which we will be working. It's the prerequisite to learning. If we can't get past this stage, there's nothing else we can do. So we push on.
I do like it that the execution is in a Linux terminal. I'm glad I have at least some familiarity with that. To note this should be important in the tutorial, though, the fact that we are using a Linux terminal.
Holy crap, it works! Okay. Good enough for now.

Human Machine Interface

Thinking about the success of windows software, and hardware becoming more wearable, the trend is pretty clear, we are integrating technology into our experience, even into our bodies. We'll be able to be anywhere in the world we need to be. Watching this Nova ScienceNow video helps to show augmented reality, telepresence, cybernetics is where we're going. It's not just science fiction. But what we believe to be possible is limited to what we believe human nature is and what we think the nature of reality is. What happens as we play around with this technology is we learn new things about ourselves and the world we inhabit. The end of the video is quite fascinating, as it is about using ourselves as the computer in a network. It's about seeing humans as information processors and putting them to more efficient use as part of a larger network.