Hi I'm involved with CoderDojo which is currently in 3rd place behind Coder.org (which is advised by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith). If you have a few minutes, please take the time to vote at http://www.azuredevs.com/Programs
Thanks for your help.
Any other alumni out there who spent the summers of 1986-1987 in the basement with the mainframes? Do you remember artspeak, prolog, lisp, prolog, C++ and Professor Mullish?
But what is life really all about anyway? Am I more of a success because I have a faithful wife and healthy children or is it something else?
Those are big questions... The Harvard Grant study has tried to address those issues. Here is a recent article about the study (also from the Atlantic): What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
I had a path similar to the one you described - gifted high school, Ivy League college, burnout. Though instead of "civil service" I have ended up in a dilbert corporate cubicle job to pay the mortgage.
I hope this boy doesn't get Lost in the Meritocracy like I did.
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maybe the kids can figure out a way
Hi I'm involved with CoderDojo which is currently in 3rd place behind Coder.org (which is advised by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith). If you have a few minutes, please take the time to vote at
http://www.azuredevs.com/Programs
Thanks for your help.
I agree. Teach kids. Share what you know. http://coderdojo.com/
Any other alumni out there who spent the summers of 1986-1987 in the basement with the mainframes? Do you remember artspeak, prolog, lisp, prolog, C++ and Professor Mullish?
photo But was that a bolt of approval or condemnation? Its so hard to figure out these sky spirits.
new free 7-week CS101 starts next week. It teaches python.
But what is life really all about anyway? Am I more of a success because I have a faithful wife and healthy children or is it something else?
Those are big questions...
The Harvard Grant study has tried to address those issues. Here is a recent article about the study (also from the Atlantic):
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
I had a path similar to the one you described - gifted high school, Ivy League college, burnout. Though instead of "civil service" I have ended up in a dilbert corporate cubicle job to pay the mortgage.
I hope this boy doesn't get Lost in the Meritocracy like I did.
Check out:
Lost in the Meritocracy - The Atlantic (January/February 2005)
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever by Walter Kirn
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton