I second Scratch. It is fun, easy, and powerful. I recently got a group of 3rd-5th graders playing with it in an hour and a half, as well as mentoring a 6th grade student who made a fun little fishing game in an afternoon. I'm working on a bowling game while debugging some of the advanced features of my Portal inspired game.
Is taking a "wallop to" something a good thing or a bad thing? I guess that's one way to make sure we read the story is to have the headline make no sense...
> Reputed to have won the greatest number of
> Nebulas and Hugos, though who knows how one
> counts these things.
Umm... wouldn't you COUNT them?
Count the number of Nebulas she's won. Count the number of Hugos she's won. Repeat for other authors who've won Nebulas or Hugos. Compare the numbers. The person with the highest number is the author who has "won the greatest number of Nebulas and Hugos".
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On a recent Intelligence Squared US debate on NPR, Forbes made the exact same "feet in a mile, minutes in an hour, etc" argument against the dollar.
I second Scratch. It is fun, easy, and powerful. I recently got a group of 3rd-5th graders playing with it in an hour and a half, as well as mentoring a 6th grade student who made a fun little fishing game in an afternoon. I'm working on a bowling game while debugging some of the advanced features of my Portal inspired game.
Scratch!
Is taking a "wallop to" something a good thing or a bad thing? I guess that's one way to make sure we read the story is to have the headline make no sense...
> Reputed to have won the greatest number of
... wouldn't you COUNT them?
> Nebulas and Hugos, though who knows how one
> counts these things.
Umm
Count the number of Nebulas she's won. Count the number of Hugos she's won. Repeat for other authors who've won Nebulas or Hugos. Compare the numbers. The person with the highest number is the author who has "won the greatest number of Nebulas and Hugos".