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About two months ago Dan Fernandez called me into his office and said, "You need to put together a Coding4Fun Holiday Guide." Okay. While not entirely sure what that meant I figured it would at least involve some sort of gift wish list and some project ideas for the whole family. Sure enough, by putting the word out to our authors and requesting input through the C4F site blog, great ideas poured in. Some of the ideas are "freebies." Some are just the kind of fun stuff that only programmers appreciate. Some will be helpful resources to use in your coding projects. Some will have great appeal to kids. And some will separate the true geeks from the mere wanna-bes.

Since we're all coders here, one of the things we wanted to do was distinguish this guide from other online holiday gift guides by primarily focusing on products that have an API you can code to. For most items, we've included links for how you can get the product and how you can code it.

Please note that all prices are approximate street prices in U.S. dollars. These products are not necessarily endorsed by Microsoft and are the personal opinions of the Coding4Fun team and of course our faithful reader submissions.