Schools haven't given up the ancient Industrial Revolution model of management. Keyboarding? There is no reason to teach QWERTY keyboarding any more! Maybe in a century or so the procrustean bureauocracies of schools with catch up with QWERTY. Forget the superior dvorak sysem. All of that modern stuff is just too much for tiny ed school brains.
I am glad to see someone is cracking down on this foolishness. Whenever I drive, I see people in their cars paying attention to anything BUT the road. Inattentive drivers don't go promptly when the light is green, and create traffic backups. They go 45mph on the fast lane of interstates.
Driving is dangerous. It demands ALL of your attention. Texting and phoning while driving is risks everyone's lives. You don't ever want to see me on a civil jury in a "texting while driving" case. Insurers, quake now. Texters and yakkers, up your liability limits and buy an umbrella policy.
These malefactors endanger everyone for a little convenience and entertainment while driving. How typically thoughtless.
I teach a course at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics that introduces non-programmers to programming. The sole prerequisite is decent algebra and problem-solving skills. All of our students have at least point-and-click proficiency with a GUI.
We use Python. Here are some reasons.
Python's syntax is simple. We don't want syntax to get in the way of semantics.
Python has almost no "plumbing;" just consider the simplicity of the "hello world" program.
Python forces its users to format programs decently. This habit becomes ingrained and our students format code nicely in other languages as well.
Python is FREE and available on all platforms. You can run it on the worst piece of junk a school district can scrape up.
The documentation for Python is excellent and provides a valuable learning resource. Python has an avalanche of high-quality learning resources on the web.
Python is a powerful professional tool.
Python, unlike JavaScript, is strongly typed. Its error messages are useful.
Python supports functional, procedural and OO programming.
We are entering our seventh year of using Python at NCSSM. It has been a highly successful effort.
You are onto something. Administrators are often lazy and don't want to document problems. You must build a case against someone who is not up to par. You can't just fire someone for no cause. This does not mean you can't fire someone with credible cause.
However, there is a lot of political nastiness in schools. This only exacerbates the problem and diminishes the credibility of those who are trying to deal with a genuine problem.
Here we have one reason a fair, smart principal is vital in a school.
Were I reading correctly, Facebook was asserting ownership and unlimited rights to all posts on its page. They have since quickly backed down from this position owing to the irate response from their members.
Because I post an item publicly, I do not surrender my copyright rights to it. Otherwise, artists displaying their paintings publicly would be authorizing their unlimited duplication for the profit of others. I don't think so.
This senator should not stop with ensuring the academic publishers' lucrative hammerlock on publicly funded research. We need a new buggy whip engineer tax of $5000 a household to keep that line of work in business too. Long live the unproductive expensive zombie enterprise!
At the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, we have a strong commitment to open-source technologies and we use them heavily in our curriculum.
Maybe it's time to have some teacher workshops in "Open Source in the Classroom"
Every goddamn device that comes out absolutely must have a connector or power cord that is incompatible with every other device. For example, the Thinkpad T43 and T60 have incompatible power cords (not to pick on Lenovo; it's just typical). This lack of standards leads to the junking of millions of electronic items every year.
When your cell phone battery burns out, it costs almost as much as a new phone to replace it. Often, a battery for a phone more than a year old is simply unobtainable, and a perfectly usable phone goes in the trash. There is a dizzying array of battery and power cord types.
They come in an endless array of forms and types, all of which are mutually incompatible. Power cords often contain transformers that are packed with nasty chemicals. That we throw so many of them away unnecessarily every year is criminal.
The FCC needs to get with standard boards such as ANSI and IEEE to create standards for connectors and power cords for small electronic devices.
Were all electronic appliances to work like this, you would have to have an electrician come install a different plug for every device (TV, fridge, microwave, dishwasher, blender, griddle, desk lamp, alarm clock, radio, etc) that you own.
The current system in large part owes to corporate greed. Companies are motivated by the ability to charge exorbitant prices for their one-of-a-kind accessories. The Obama administration should step in and implement a "green" measure that would quickly make us all better off.
The colleges have an amazing racket. When you go, your family must disclose every penny it has. Then, the colleges post wildly inflated sticker prices on their product. They justify this outrageous cost with Hollywood accounting.
This would make a robber baron blush! We forget at our peril that schools are in fact profit-making organiazation staffed by managment thirsting for perks and bonuses.
The current system is antiquated, costly and slow. It constricts rather than enhances the flow of information between scientists.
Journals of publicly-financed research should be peer reviewed, supported by the universities, and be maintained on the web. Their contents should be freely available for the taxpaying public that finances them. The publishers are trolls under the bridges of understanding, exacting high tolls and impeding the spread and limiting the availability of knowledge.
Our society's childish attitudes towards alcohol give drink a "forbidden fruit" appeal. We need to treat alcohol more rationally so it does not become an implement in the battle of adolescent indviduation. Until then, we will have more stupid binge drinking.
If you live in Mountain View, you do much less heating or air conditioning than people in the rest of the US.
When you heat, you must run the blower motor, which can consume quite a bit of juice.
I am working on a book based on the programming curriculum at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. It addresses programming from the LINUX viewpoint using Python then DrJava.
The intended audience is a bright, creative person (especially a teen) who wants to learn how to program.
A noncompete clause is akin to telling a sculptor never to take up the chisel again. These should be illegal. They strangle the ability of someone skilled in an art to earn a gainful living. Stinko.
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Schools haven't given up the ancient Industrial Revolution model of management. Keyboarding? There is no reason to teach QWERTY keyboarding any more! Maybe in a century or so the procrustean bureauocracies of schools with catch up with QWERTY. Forget the superior dvorak sysem. All of that modern stuff is just too much for tiny ed school brains.
Everything known has been discovered. Therefore we don't need to look for anything else. I think I've heard this before.
Here's the reason. Think like a corporate exec!
I am glad to see someone is cracking down on this foolishness. Whenever I drive, I see people in their cars paying attention to anything BUT the road. Inattentive drivers don't go promptly when the light is green, and create traffic backups. They go 45mph on the fast lane of interstates.
Driving is dangerous. It demands ALL of your attention. Texting and phoning while driving is risks everyone's lives. You don't ever want to see me on a civil jury in a "texting while driving" case. Insurers, quake now. Texters and yakkers, up your liability limits and buy an umbrella policy.
These malefactors endanger everyone for a little convenience and entertainment while driving. How typically thoughtless.
Nice. Let's destroy everyone's interest in programming before we start.
I teach a course at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics that introduces non-programmers to programming. The sole prerequisite is decent algebra and problem-solving skills. All of our students have at least point-and-click proficiency with a GUI.
We use Python. Here are some reasons.
We are entering our seventh year of using Python at NCSSM. It has been a highly successful effort.
Psssssssstttt.... Hey, I'm into medieval!
You are onto something. Administrators are often lazy and don't want to document problems. You must build a case against someone who is not up to par. You can't just fire someone for no cause. This does not mean you can't fire someone with credible cause.
However, there is a lot of political nastiness in schools. This only exacerbates the problem and diminishes the credibility of those who are trying to deal with a genuine problem.
Here we have one reason a fair, smart principal is vital in a school.
Ugh. Syfy. Illiterate knucklheads!
while True: IQ = math.sqrt(IQ)
With LaTeX, I don't have to worry that the latest word processor won't open older files. I can store it in text and send it as text.
Word processors are just inferior.
The biggest mistake I see is that browsers did not did not adopt a TeX-like standard for formatting both formulae and text.
You are responsible for initializing variables in C. If you don't that is your fault.
Were I reading correctly, Facebook was asserting ownership and unlimited rights to all posts on its page. They have since quickly backed down from this position owing to the irate response from their members.
Because I post an item publicly, I do not surrender my copyright rights to it. Otherwise, artists displaying their paintings publicly would be authorizing their unlimited duplication for the profit of others. I don't think so.
This senator should not stop with ensuring the academic publishers' lucrative hammerlock on publicly funded research. We need a new buggy whip engineer tax of $5000 a household to keep that line of work in business too. Long live the unproductive expensive zombie enterprise!
Participants fork over an inch-high stack of Benjamins for a few days of dabbling. This hardly seems to be the stuff of lasting impact. Ugh.
At the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, we have a strong commitment to open-source technologies and we use them heavily in our curriculum. Maybe it's time to have some teacher workshops in "Open Source in the Classroom"
Every goddamn device that comes out absolutely must have a connector or power cord that is incompatible with every other device. For example, the Thinkpad T43 and T60 have incompatible power cords (not to pick on Lenovo; it's just typical). This lack of standards leads to the junking of millions of electronic items every year.
When your cell phone battery burns out, it costs almost as much as a new phone to replace it. Often, a battery for a phone more than a year old is simply unobtainable, and a perfectly usable phone goes in the trash. There is a dizzying array of battery and power cord types. They come in an endless array of forms and types, all of which are mutually incompatible. Power cords often contain transformers that are packed with nasty chemicals. That we throw so many of them away unnecessarily every year is criminal.
The FCC needs to get with standard boards such as ANSI and IEEE to create standards for connectors and power cords for small electronic devices.
Were all electronic appliances to work like this, you would have to have an electrician come install a different plug for every device (TV, fridge, microwave, dishwasher, blender, griddle, desk lamp, alarm clock, radio, etc) that you own.
The current system in large part owes to corporate greed. Companies are motivated by the ability to charge exorbitant prices for their one-of-a-kind accessories. The Obama administration should step in and implement a "green" measure that would quickly make us all better off.
I have had a lot of annoying problems. They are expensive, disposal is a problem (mercury) and they don't work as well. I think CFCS are a bust.
The colleges have an amazing racket. When you go, your family must disclose every penny it has. Then, the colleges post wildly inflated sticker prices on their product. They justify this outrageous cost with Hollywood accounting.
This would make a robber baron blush! We forget at our peril that schools are in fact profit-making organiazation staffed by managment thirsting for perks and bonuses.
The current system is antiquated, costly and slow. It constricts rather than enhances the flow of information between scientists. Journals of publicly-financed research should be peer reviewed, supported by the universities, and be maintained on the web. Their contents should be freely available for the taxpaying public that finances them. The publishers are trolls under the bridges of understanding, exacting high tolls and impeding the spread and limiting the availability of knowledge.
1. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
2. Snuffle.
3. Pucker
4. Apply Lipstick.
Ugh.
Our society's childish attitudes towards alcohol give drink a "forbidden fruit" appeal. We need to treat alcohol more rationally so it does not become an implement in the battle of adolescent indviduation. Until then, we will have more stupid binge drinking.
If you live in Mountain View, you do much less heating or air conditioning than people in the rest of the US. When you heat, you must run the blower motor, which can consume quite a bit of juice.
I am working on a book based on the programming curriculum at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. It addresses programming from the LINUX viewpoint using Python then DrJava. The intended audience is a bright, creative person (especially a teen) who wants to learn how to program.
A noncompete clause is akin to telling a sculptor never to take up the chisel again. These should be illegal. They strangle the ability of someone skilled in an art to earn a gainful living. Stinko.