I've taught five groups of 8 to 15 "work experience" kids from local high schools, year 10 to year 12 (15 to 18yo), using http://squeakland.org/ Etoys. Most of them hate computing classes they do in school: learn how to use Office. I tell them the visual language isn't designed for them but kids 6yo and up. Then I teach them the simple car (turtle-like), the car with a connected steering wheel (functional programming), and then the car staying on track by sensing fences in about 40 minutes. Zero programming experience (in most cases) to environment sensing (I call it AI) programming in less than an hour. One bright kid figured out how to spawn cars and managed to create a race.
Like with many discoveries Fleming wasn't the first to notice the effect. He just had a better sense of publicity. The interesting thing about its use was that during WWII western governments suspected the patents various drug companies had and forced the mass production for military use. Copyrights, patents etc are not natural rights.
Me and two others bought Amigas for our university work in 1986 for $A2500 - a special price from Commodore Australia for developers. One of us was looking to use it for remote sensing image analysis and I was interested in multimedia and education. When tax time came around we had a query from the Australian Tax Office asking us to justify that the mouse was a necessary purchase. The Amiga mouse came with the computer but some tax assessor thought it was an optional extra like with M$-DOS and so not deductible.
For awhile there the Business School was going to standardise on Amiga. The Visual and Performing Arts school did for teaching animation and the Science school used them extensively for GIS and medical imaging.
I still have my original Amiga 1000 though it has been upgraded with something called Phoenix.
Squeak http://squeak.org/ over AmigaDOS would have been a killer combination for education.
I had been using a replacement credit card for a fortnight (two weeks) before a shop assistant asked for photo id. Puzzled I showed her my driver's licence. She then told me I hadn't signed the card which I promptly did. She told me that they get paid $60 if they pickup fradulent card use.
"Poeple,[and] companies do this all the time" Are "Poeple" a new type of cloned human atuned to needs of corporations? Perhaps they are all around us and we don't realise? I think it's poeple that accept crappy software without fuss. I wonder what the people:poeple ratio is now?
In the old days, governments set the standards and the industry followed. Which government would be brave enough to set an office document standard and tell vendors to at least import and export standard documents?
Vendors used to try to subvert standards, for example, EBCDIC, for character encoding, but who uses that these days?
In our experience learning OOP using Java is very difficult. All right, the bulk of students aren't that bright, but I think they would do a lot better if they learnt Python or SmallTalk using Squeak first. We kill a lot of interest in programming by using Java as the first programming language.
I don't care what the GUI looks like. It doesn't work through SSH. I setup fetch get from an Exchange Server and it lost mail, about 100 messages. I don't why, but I don't want to risk using again.
I use Squeak instead of PP. By separating subtopics into projects, using large text, graphics and a touch of animation it make a great presentation tool.
What is a large nation? Australia: 8 112 000 sq km USA: 9 363 123 sq km and most of the difference is Alaska: 1 518 800 sq km.
Also, look up your dictionary: x1000 is "k", eg km, kg, kW and kbps. K is some adhoc prefix thought up by geeks. Careful scientists and engineers use "k". http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.h tml
I always try and use Mozilla on FreeBSD when using Internet Banking and the only time I've had trouble is with Mozilla 1.0 (or ealier). I can't get past the login screen. Netscape 6.2.3 and Mozill1 1.1 work well.
Yes, but which version of Office? Yes, you might learn version XP now, but in a year or so there will be XP 2003 and *many* facilities, processes, options and so on, will be different. There are _still_ of lot of places with Office 97 or less! If you learn general word-processing, spreadsheet, etc., that's all right, you'll be able to cope with change.
What if the list setup and maintenance is done pro bono back when I only worked 45 hours a week? The list owner asked for a change. By the time I was up to this message it was 2am Sunday morning. I scanned the manual, made a change and on Monday morning 2000 subscribers had 1000 extra messages. Somehow someone managed to reply with a message containing a virus so that didn't help.
Software: SmartList (over procmail). Don't link accept to dist if you have foreign_submit active. Always document your special setup.
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Without the influence of great leaders from the USA there would be no metric system. http://metricationmatters.com/docs/USAMetricSystemHistory.pdf (PDF)
I've taught five groups of 8 to 15 "work experience" kids from local high schools, year 10 to year 12 (15 to 18yo), using http://squeakland.org/ Etoys. Most of them hate computing classes they do in school: learn how to use Office. I tell them the visual language isn't designed for them but kids 6yo and up. Then I teach them the simple car (turtle-like), the car with a connected steering wheel (functional programming), and then the car staying on track by sensing fences in about 40 minutes. Zero programming experience (in most cases) to environment sensing (I call it AI) programming in less than an hour.
One bright kid figured out how to spawn cars and managed to create a race.
Great post, but date was it posted? 02-07-05 could be 2002-07-05, 2002-05-07, 2005-07-02 or 2005-02-07? Please read http://w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date
Like with many discoveries Fleming wasn't the first to notice the effect. He just had a better sense of publicity. The interesting thing about its use was that during WWII western governments suspected the patents various drug companies had and forced the mass production for military use. Copyrights, patents etc are not natural rights.
Me and two others bought Amigas for our university work in 1986 for $A2500 - a special price from Commodore Australia for developers. One of us was looking to use it for remote sensing image analysis and I was interested in multimedia and education. When tax time came around we had a query from the Australian Tax Office asking us to justify that the mouse was a necessary purchase. The Amiga mouse came with the computer but some tax assessor thought it was an optional extra like with M$-DOS and so not deductible.
For awhile there the Business School was going to standardise on Amiga. The Visual and Performing Arts school did for teaching animation and the Science school used them extensively for GIS and medical imaging.
I still have my original Amiga 1000 though it has been upgraded with something called Phoenix.
Squeak http://squeak.org/ over AmigaDOS would have been a killer combination for education.
I had been using a replacement credit card for a fortnight (two weeks) before a shop assistant asked for photo id. Puzzled I showed her my driver's licence. She then told me I hadn't signed the card which I promptly did. She told me that they get paid $60 if they pickup fradulent card use.
No, you mean exactly the same. "exact same" comes from another planet.
"Poeple,[and] companies do this all the time"
Are "Poeple" a new type of cloned human atuned to needs of corporations? Perhaps they are all around us and we don't realise? I think it's poeple that accept crappy software without fuss. I wonder what the people:poeple ratio is now?
In the old days, governments set the standards and the industry followed. Which government would be brave enough to set an office document standard and tell vendors to at least import and export standard documents?
Vendors used to try to subvert standards, for example, EBCDIC, for character encoding, but who uses that these days?
In our experience learning OOP using Java is very difficult. All right, the bulk of students aren't that bright, but I think they would do a lot better if they learnt Python or SmallTalk using Squeak first. We kill a lot of interest in programming by using Java as the first programming language.
Look here, most people in Wagga Wagga have xDSL. Perhaps you're thinking of Wagga in Western Australia.
It's a cyclone. It's the Southern Hemisphere. There are only Hurricaynes in the Northern Hemisphere.
I don't care what the GUI looks like. It doesn't work through SSH. I setup fetch get from an Exchange Server and it lost mail, about 100 messages. I don't why, but I don't want to risk using again.
I use Squeak instead of PP. By separating subtopics into projects, using large text, graphics and a touch of animation it make a great presentation tool.
What is a large nation?
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Australia: 8 112 000 sq km
USA: 9 363 123 sq km
and most of the difference is Alaska:
1 518 800 sq km.
Also, look up your dictionary:
x1000 is "k", eg km, kg, kW and kbps. K is some adhoc prefix thought up by geeks. Careful scientists and engineers use "k".
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.
Please use the correct lettercase to avoid confusion. It is never a (Kg) Kilogram. It is always a kilogram (kg). See US NIST.
I used to have a computer with a milli-hertz (mHz) machine cycle.
Utilize - it means use.
Vaccuum the carpet instead of hoovering the carpet. Ball-point pen instead of biro. Felt-tip pen instead of texta-color pen. Very ianal.
This mob make pretty good store-front software:
Bizar Software or you could do it yourself directly in ZOPE.
I always try and use Mozilla on FreeBSD when using Internet Banking and the only time I've had trouble is with Mozilla 1.0 (or ealier). I can't get past the login screen. Netscape 6.2.3 and Mozill1 1.1 work well.
Yes, but which version of Office? Yes, you might learn version XP now, but in a year or so there will be XP 2003 and *many* facilities, processes, options and so on, will be different. There are _still_ of lot of places with Office 97 or less! If you learn general word-processing, spreadsheet, etc., that's all right, you'll be able to cope with change.
What if the list setup and maintenance is done pro bono back when I only worked 45 hours a week? The list owner asked for a change. By the time I was up to this message it was 2am Sunday morning. I scanned the manual, made a change and on Monday morning 2000 subscribers had 1000 extra messages. Somehow someone managed to reply with a message containing a virus so that didn't help.
Software: SmartList (over procmail). Don't link accept to dist if you have foreign_submit active. Always document your special setup.