I teach a digital electronics class (hardware) to high school kids and fortunately it attracts kinda the cream of the crop of kids in the school.
If I'm ever out for a day I throw em on App Inventor and let em build apps for their phones.
If they can use something easy like drag and click blocks and build an app that does stupid shit they're pretty happy
I think if I had more time to throw at it I could get em to build some actual games, there's certainly enough tutorials around.
Programming is a difficult thing to teach to anybody, it has a steep learning curve, to a novice it all looks like gibberish, but the icon based IDE and games as a goal seem doable to me. Now if I could get the morons that run the school system to let me teach a programming class I could see if this works.
Or I could quit and get a "real job" and be able to put food on the table again
(I was an engineer for many years before doing this)
the trick to the single back wheel is it gets considered as a motorcycle by the government and gets around all kinds of safety regulation stuff which is WAY expensive. not saying this is good or bad (I ride a Harley) but it's the motivation for doing it. that plus lower rolling resistance
the idea of a pipe down into the ocean as a launch vehicle sounds suspiciously like a perpetual motion machine
sorry folks, tain't no such kritter, there ain't no free lunch;-)
where else but/.
somebody should take up a collection to help these folks out, they're being screwed. you guy's know any widely read website that might be able to do this? I got my 20$ ready
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I teach a digital electronics class (hardware) to high school kids and fortunately it attracts kinda the cream of the crop of kids in the school. If I'm ever out for a day I throw em on App Inventor and let em build apps for their phones. If they can use something easy like drag and click blocks and build an app that does stupid shit they're pretty happy I think if I had more time to throw at it I could get em to build some actual games, there's certainly enough tutorials around. Programming is a difficult thing to teach to anybody, it has a steep learning curve, to a novice it all looks like gibberish, but the icon based IDE and games as a goal seem doable to me. Now if I could get the morons that run the school system to let me teach a programming class I could see if this works. Or I could quit and get a "real job" and be able to put food on the table again (I was an engineer for many years before doing this)
I'm a math teacher THANK YOU!!
I have a shotgun and love to target prctice
well Redhat seems to be going right down the toilet with their open source strategy
the trick to the single back wheel is it gets considered as a motorcycle by the government and gets around all kinds of safety regulation stuff which is WAY expensive. not saying this is good or bad (I ride a Harley) but it's the motivation for doing it. that plus lower rolling resistance
>>I know I, for one, would be pretty pissed off to open up my new computer and not have any way to go download Firefox. ever hear of ftp??
yea, my F8 box went down, but not right at midnight GMT /var/log/messages
here's the last line from
Dec 31 17:44:31 tomcat ntpd[2380]: kernel time sync status change 0011
I'm EST so it was 22:44:31 GMT
I guess it was talking to one of Redhat's ntpd servers
It's been rock solid in the past
somebody needs a table top cold fusion reactor
scratch.mit.edu alice.org both are great tools targeted at kids this age please don't try to start them out on C, danger lies there
what's next? a "do" loop??? if you can read this, thank a teacher if it's in english, thank a soldier
the idea of a pipe down into the ocean as a launch vehicle sounds suspiciously like a perpetual motion machine ;-)
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sorry folks, tain't no such kritter, there ain't no free lunch
where else but
they aren't encrypting anything here's how it works http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gps1.htm
somebody should take up a collection to help these folks out, they're being screwed. you guy's know any widely read website that might be able to do this? I got my 20$ ready