"Math is math how you come to the solution is the trick and all the great people in math didn't have calculators they did it with the work written down. Your will never be great at math until you can prove the equations the long way."
Lets [sic] go back to solving math problems with paper and pencil, instead of the wonderful calculator. Lets make the student learn to use a slide rule again, instead of the technology and have them learn.
No, let's not. When is a slide rule going to be used in the real world? When is a calculator not going to be available?
I think you even misunderstand what has happened to Maths (and, indeed, Geography) since you went to school yourself. It is now more complex, with topics like trigonometry, calculus, statistics - and it is not useful to calculate SRCC with a slide rule.
Of course, this is mixed in with the practical topics of estimation, accuracy, compound interest and all that real-world stuff.
Oh - and when learning logarithms, it may be of interest to learn how a slide rule works.
My school offers ICT, not Computing. I do not want to take Computing at A Level.
I will be taking (for your interest) Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Geography. This should set me off to a good start for Computer Science at a super-geeky university. [1] [2] Perhaps due to a low supply of Computing courses, neither of these pages mention A Level Computing.
Additionally, I read Wikipedia, I program basic Scheme and some C++ and I'm an expert in PHP (although I'm moving away as it isn't a computer-science-style-language). Worry not about my prospects.;)
Precisely: you used about 5 or 6 different species of computer.
Nowadays we have only 3: The Windows PC, the Linux Modern Computer (PC/Mac), the Mac OS X Computer.
Others, such as the Massive IBM Mainframe, the Big Solaris Box, and Deep Blue, are impractically expensive for educational use.
You recieved a good computer education because you used many different computers. Instead of going through motions, you read the menus, check the help, etc. (Yes, I know, it was just the command prompt, manuals purchased seperately, etc.)
The initial report was about saving costs by replacing paid-for software with free software of equivalent functionality. The comments, however, are drifting towards how not to teach students a software monoculture.
Did you sign up to the course? How many hours a week? How old were you?
Were you in Canada at the time?
Do you expect people to learn HTML with a few hours each week? What if they are my unmotivated class that just use computers for their own pursuits (games, WWW, IM)?
If you started a new course which was *really* about computers and was fairly rigorous, how many do you think would sign up, when they have as other choices Art, Music, Food Tech, Child Dev (dead easy), Resistant Materials, being able to do Geography *and* History, etc?
Only the people who were *already* obsessed with computers. Me and 5 (maximum) other people in my year of ~240.
Then you would not be allowed to do the course. Basically.
In my school students regularly taught teachers how to use the computers (with the move to the new building).
The teachers had just been told how to log on, basically.
I'm always happy when I see a technically proficient teacher. Nowadays most teachers know how to visit a website or open a word document and then annotate onto it using our whiteboard program (from Promethean). The program just takes a screenshot (or as my IT teacher would say, if he even understood, a "printscreen") and displays it on the screen.
"What is wrong with that? Why do you think they are called screenshots?"
Screenshots are the standard term. They are more rarely (and less formally) called screenies or screens.
They are called screenshots because somebody once called them that and the name stuck.
Similarly to my teacher, I could call SQL "Clever Query Language", Windows "*The* OS", forums "bullet boards", mailing lists "online forums", bugs "negative features" or "insects", optimisation "efficiency increasal", and so on. (Tales of management and marketing departments come to mind)
The only problem is that nobody would understand me. Additionally, I run the risk of eventually making up something which is "technically wrong", as you said.
The funny thing is that my teacher was reading from the mark scheme recently, and he had to add his own comment: "One mark for mentioning the word "screenshot" (which is basically a printscreen)"
I was tempted to ask what the "basic" qualifier was there for, and why, if he taught to the mark scheme (after all, networks are far more complicated than star, bus or mesh layouts), he didn't start calling them printscreens.
*sigh*
--r3m0t (suddenly appears to work again; maybe IP changed)
I am going to do my GCSE (14-16) ICT exam in a month or so. It has taken up several hours a week, every schoolweek, for two years.
Questions include: "What are the parts of a processor?" (multiple choice. correct answer: AMU, ALU, something else. understanding of what *exactly* these do, how they fit together, etc is not necessary) "Dave is experiencing back pain/RSI. What should he do?" (multiple choice. answers include "stapler" and "copy holder") "Name and describe two files [i.e. tables] used in this database system." (written answer, 4 marks. I lost 2 because I didn't name the files. "But sir," I said to my teacher who calls a screenshot a printscreen, "It depends on the software you're using, and you aren't allowed to name the software!") no reply.
Essentially it is a COMPLETELY USELESS qualification which teaches NO CODING (even not HTML). It includes OVERLY ARTIFICIAL case studies and questions, RIDICULOUS questions, POINTLESS AND SHALLOW knowledge, etc.
Essentially, the more you like computers, the less you'll like this course.
Almost everybody gets an A or A*.
Also, you learn roundabout ways of doing things, thanks to the school's odd view on security. For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer. To make a new folder, enter Microsoft Word, go to their "Open file" dialog, press the button. (etc, etc)
The moderation system: It would severely reduce useful contribution, period. It's "unwiki" and unfriendly.
"all kinds of business ventures" It isn't for profit.
"a dead-tree Wikipedia set, CDs and DVDs" There is inherent risk here. Sending out text which may be copyrighted - and even making people pay for it - is insanely risky. There would need to be validation first.
"A Wikipedia magazine, containing random articles picked by a small staff" Why? Anybody can read unusual articles[1] online.
"might bring in money to pay a staff of researchers to go through the entire encyclopedia and increase the detail level and quality of its contents." That would take years. I'de much rather let the same thing happen, only slower; I'de also like the site to always work quickly and reliably[2] and to have fulltext search. That's more important.
Yes, and it's the source of many security problems.
A lot of those apps could do without a little embedded browser. Winamp's media library comes to mind, and a few help systems too (such as the one in DrScheme).
You just need to look around for applications and you will see that most haven't moved to.Net. Indeed, why should they? It's more new stuff to learn and requires a large download by many users.
As for DLL Hell, well, you know what uninstalling programs that use shared libraries is like. Among other things.
The login page is good in terms of how much typing you have to do. Just don't set a password hint.
I also hate simplified permissions, and the warnings when going to C:\WINXP, C:\Program Files, even just C:\. At least you only need to turn these off once.
Also, you should show hidden system files to see the pagefile (eg), and you should turn off taskbar grouping (I do anyway, it's annoying and increases the number of clicks for task switching).
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Well, it *will* be "backwords" compatible.
He isn't even developing solutions like you are.
For example, Maya is a 3D graphics tool.
So, why would he want to modify his software?
He never said that they ought to be porting. He simply said that they hadn't done any porting, so he can't move.
Idiot.
"Math is math how you come to the solution is the trick and all the great people in math didn't have calculators they did it with the work written down. Your will never be great at math until you can prove the equations the long way."
How do calculators help you prove things?
No, let's not. When is a slide rule going to be used in the real world? When is a calculator not going to be available?
I think you even misunderstand what has happened to Maths (and, indeed, Geography) since you went to school yourself. It is now more complex, with topics like trigonometry, calculus, statistics - and it is not useful to calculate SRCC with a slide rule.
Of course, this is mixed in with the practical topics of estimation, accuracy, compound interest and all that real-world stuff.
Oh - and when learning logarithms, it may be of interest to learn how a slide rule works.
The CC license he uses allows people to copy and redistribute the entire book for non-commercial purposes.
I assume he has chosen to make this easy by providing the text online.
In thinking, the full form goes "hutatapeculuslaslawibwibwibdot (bla)". (mostly short vowels)
I haven't tried it in speech yet.
Alternative suppliers of PowerPCs aren't a large thing... yet.
No piracy protection? Well, that must be because EVERY COMPUTER CAPABLE OF RUNNING IT is produced by Apple!
Myself, I did much the same in IRC rooms.
I particularly recommend trivia games.
My school offers ICT, not Computing. I do not want to take Computing at A Level.
;)
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I will be taking (for your interest) Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Geography. This should set me off to a good start for Computer Science at a super-geeky university. [1] [2] Perhaps due to a low supply of Computing courses, neither of these pages mention A Level Computing.
Additionally, I read Wikipedia, I program basic Scheme and some C++ and I'm an expert in PHP (although I'm moving away as it isn't a computer-science-style-language). Worry not about my prospects.
[1] http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/cou
[2] http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/courses/enreq.shtm
Precisely: you used about 5 or 6 different species of computer.
Nowadays we have only 3: The Windows PC, the Linux Modern Computer (PC/Mac), the Mac OS X Computer.
Others, such as the Massive IBM Mainframe, the Big Solaris Box, and Deep Blue, are impractically expensive for educational use.
You recieved a good computer education because you used many different computers. Instead of going through motions, you read the menus, check the help, etc. (Yes, I know, it was just the command prompt, manuals purchased seperately, etc.)
The initial report was about saving costs by replacing paid-for software with free software of equivalent functionality. The comments, however, are drifting towards how not to teach students a software monoculture.
We are not learning that at school now.
Did you sign up to the course? How many hours a week? How old were you?
Were you in Canada at the time?
Do you expect people to learn HTML with a few hours each week? What if they are my unmotivated class that just use computers for their own pursuits (games, WWW, IM)?
If you started a new course which was *really* about computers and was fairly rigorous, how many do you think would sign up, when they have as other choices Art, Music, Food Tech, Child Dev (dead easy), Resistant Materials, being able to do Geography *and* History, etc?
Only the people who were *already* obsessed with computers. Me and 5 (maximum) other people in my year of ~240.
Then you would not be allowed to do the course. Basically.
Completely agreed.
In my school students regularly taught teachers how to use the computers (with the move to the new building).
The teachers had just been told how to log on, basically.
I'm always happy when I see a technically proficient teacher. Nowadays most teachers know how to visit a website or open a word document and then annotate onto it using our whiteboard program (from Promethean). The program just takes a screenshot (or as my IT teacher would say, if he even understood, a "printscreen") and displays it on the screen.
"What is wrong with that? Why do you think they are called screenshots?"
Screenshots are the standard term. They are more rarely (and less formally) called screenies or screens.
They are called screenshots because somebody once called them that and the name stuck.
Similarly to my teacher, I could call SQL "Clever Query Language", Windows "*The* OS", forums "bullet boards", mailing lists "online forums", bugs "negative features" or "insects", optimisation "efficiency increasal", and so on. (Tales of management and marketing departments come to mind)
The only problem is that nobody would understand me. Additionally, I run the risk of eventually making up something which is "technically wrong", as you said.
The funny thing is that my teacher was reading from the mark scheme recently, and he had to add his own comment: "One mark for mentioning the word "screenshot" (which is basically a printscreen)"
I was tempted to ask what the "basic" qualifier was there for, and why, if he taught to the mark scheme (after all, networks are far more complicated than star, bus or mesh layouts), he didn't start calling them printscreens.
*sigh*
--r3m0t (suddenly appears to work again; maybe IP changed)
their, there, they're.
You're at university?!?
Ditto. Only worse.
I am going to do my GCSE (14-16) ICT exam in a month or so. It has taken up several hours a week, every schoolweek, for two years.
Questions include:
"What are the parts of a processor?" (multiple choice. correct answer: AMU, ALU, something else. understanding of what *exactly* these do, how they fit together, etc is not necessary)
"Dave is experiencing back pain/RSI. What should he do?" (multiple choice. answers include "stapler" and "copy holder")
"Name and describe two files [i.e. tables] used in this database system." (written answer, 4 marks. I lost 2 because I didn't name the files. "But sir," I said to my teacher who calls a screenshot a printscreen, "It depends on the software you're using, and you aren't allowed to name the software!") no reply.
Essentially it is a COMPLETELY USELESS qualification which teaches NO CODING (even not HTML). It includes OVERLY ARTIFICIAL case studies and questions, RIDICULOUS questions, POINTLESS AND SHALLOW knowledge, etc.
Essentially, the more you like computers, the less you'll like this course.
Almost everybody gets an A or A*.
Also, you learn roundabout ways of doing things, thanks to the school's odd view on security. For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer. To make a new folder, enter Microsoft Word, go to their "Open file" dialog, press the button. (etc, etc)
The moderation system: It would severely reduce useful contribution, period. It's "unwiki" and unfriendly.
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"all kinds of business ventures"
It isn't for profit.
"a dead-tree Wikipedia set, CDs and DVDs"
There is inherent risk here. Sending out text which may be copyrighted - and even making people pay for it - is insanely risky. There would need to be validation first.
"A Wikipedia magazine, containing random articles picked by a small staff"
Why? Anybody can read unusual articles[1] online.
"might bring in money to pay a staff of researchers to go through the entire encyclopedia and increase the detail level and quality of its contents."
That would take years. I'de much rather let the same thing happen, only slower; I'de also like the site to always work quickly and reliably[2] and to have fulltext search. That's more important.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_ar
[2] http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=
No details? Are you sure?
Yes, and it's the source of many security problems.
A lot of those apps could do without a little embedded browser. Winamp's media library comes to mind, and a few help systems too (such as the one in DrScheme).
You just need to look around for applications and you will see that most haven't moved to .Net. Indeed, why should they? It's more new stuff to learn and requires a large download by many users.
As for DLL Hell, well, you know what uninstalling programs that use shared libraries is like. Among other things.
Please do argue against me. I don't mind.
The login page is good in terms of how much typing you have to do. Just don't set a password hint.
I also hate simplified permissions, and the warnings when going to C:\WINXP, C:\Program Files, even just C:\. At least you only need to turn these off once.
Also, you should show hidden system files to see the pagefile (eg), and you should turn off taskbar grouping (I do anyway, it's annoying and increases the number of clicks for task switching).
No, it wasn't. When I put it on my computer, the only thing I noticed was the replacement of the find dialog into a sidepanel of Windows Explorer.
Funny, they decided to replace that on the next release...
I imagine they had hardware driver updates too, but no surprise there and you can always download them.
Err, yes, that's all.
But MSHTML is vital for IE, "Active Desktop" (ha ha, that was crap) and most importantly the help system. I bet other programs are using it, too.
Too much integration.
"They have a new OS API, known as WinFX (a superset of .NET). WinFX and .NET are integrated into the kernel."
.NET framework too??
That's odd. Integrating new things into the kernel?
The WinFX API is fine; it deserves to be in the kernel, like Win32 and Win16 (probably emulation, by now). But the