I would have to agree. Video games are too technologically dependant. The Olympics have long been about physical strength and endurance. Video games are hardly about the physical. They will stay out of the Olympics for the same reason Chess and Monopoly aren't in the Olympics.
I am all for a true World Championship. I don't think I would watch it though.
I think it would be best to start out with the class all using the same method. In my intro to programming class we had a central linux server that we could all connect to and we would use vi to program on it. I liked this because as a Mac guy I had no software problems. It also gave many of us in the class our first taste of linux since everything we did was in the command line.
I do feel that IDE's are important but it is my opinion that a student should be taught in the most simple environment as possible and I found that environment to be the command line. My next programming class used an IDE(Visual C++) which I feel was necessary to learn, but has convinced me that locking students into one environment is the best way to turn them off programming.
For those interested my first programming class just used a redhat server and gave accounts to every student. Students would then just use Putty to connect to the server and do all their work on the server.
It is the equal largest telescope in the world depending on what measurement? Height? Width? Resolution? I don't like it when news stories use those kinds of boasts because they are so vague. For all we know that could mean that the telescope has the same number of people working for them as the other large telescope.
The cost of not keeping secrets is always going to be less. The government doesn't have to actively try to hide information that is already officially public information. The high cost of the classified information could be from all the measures that the government takes to secure its information. And let's not forget the rising price of gas.
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I would have to agree. Video games are too technologically dependant. The Olympics have long been about physical strength and endurance. Video games are hardly about the physical. They will stay out of the Olympics for the same reason Chess and Monopoly aren't in the Olympics.
I am all for a true World Championship. I don't think I would watch it though.
I think it would be best to start out with the class all using the same method. In my intro to programming class we had a central linux server that we could all connect to and we would use vi to program on it. I liked this because as a Mac guy I had no software problems. It also gave many of us in the class our first taste of linux since everything we did was in the command line.
I do feel that IDE's are important but it is my opinion that a student should be taught in the most simple environment as possible and I found that environment to be the command line. My next programming class used an IDE(Visual C++) which I feel was necessary to learn, but has convinced me that locking students into one environment is the best way to turn them off programming.
For those interested my first programming class just used a redhat server and gave accounts to every student. Students would then just use Putty to connect to the server and do all their work on the server.
It is the equal largest telescope in the world depending on what measurement? Height? Width? Resolution? I don't like it when news stories use those kinds of boasts because they are so vague. For all we know that could mean that the telescope has the same number of people working for them as the other large telescope.
The cost of not keeping secrets is always going to be less. The government doesn't have to actively try to hide information that is already officially public information. The high cost of the classified information could be from all the measures that the government takes to secure its information. And let's not forget the rising price of gas.