From TFA: "the Justice Department argued that terrorists could deploy model rockets to shoot down commercial airliners"
Yeah, I'm going to use my science fair project to shoot down a 747-400 at 30,000 feet. Give me a break. Reminds me of the Attorney General telling us that downloading music was funding terrorist activities. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 24/0358210 [slashdot.org] Is there anything I can do now that doesn't contribute to terrorism?
My advice would be to teach, but with a minimalistic IDE. You shouldn't teach an intro course with something like eclipse that auto-fills everything; students won't learn the core concepts then. However, throwing them into a vi/emacs environment when some have hardly programed before is probably the best way to produce uninterested students. Most will just think they're in way over their heads with the amount of stuff (UNIX commands, vi/emacs commands, programming concepts, makefiles, etc.) that they need to learn. However, a minimalistic IDE will teach them the core programming concepts and not hide any important stuff from them, but hide all the associative stuff that they can learn later.
lots of these... (.Y.)
Take a cue from the trash that is "popular" today... eMpTV, anyone?
Maybe you have like a firefox mascot roll up in a limo, pop some bubbly and get freaky in da club with lotsa fine women.
Oh, them curves is like BLAM!
I read a good article by Mark Fischetti called "Why not a 40mpg SUV?" in the November 2002 issue of Technology Review that mentioned a lot of next generation car technology that is really interesting. The public just doesn't hear about it because car companies don't want to change their ways. Of interest to me, particularly, was a constantly variable transmission that had many, many, little gears and would shift automatically, significantly increasing gas milage. This tech isn't new... in fact, the patent for it is EXPIRING! Just goes to show what we are capable in terms of improved car technology, and how little industry will there is to implement these changes.
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From TFA: "the Justice Department argued that terrorists could deploy model rockets to shoot down commercial airliners" Yeah, I'm going to use my science fair project to shoot down a 747-400 at 30,000 feet. Give me a break. Reminds me of the Attorney General telling us that downloading music was funding terrorist activities. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 24/0358210 [slashdot.org] Is there anything I can do now that doesn't contribute to terrorism?
My advice would be to teach, but with a minimalistic IDE. You shouldn't teach an intro course with something like eclipse that auto-fills everything; students won't learn the core concepts then. However, throwing them into a vi/emacs environment when some have hardly programed before is probably the best way to produce uninterested students. Most will just think they're in way over their heads with the amount of stuff (UNIX commands, vi/emacs commands, programming concepts, makefiles, etc.) that they need to learn. However, a minimalistic IDE will teach them the core programming concepts and not hide any important stuff from them, but hide all the associative stuff that they can learn later.
lots of these... (.Y.) Take a cue from the trash that is "popular" today... eMpTV, anyone? Maybe you have like a firefox mascot roll up in a limo, pop some bubbly and get freaky in da club with lotsa fine women. Oh, them curves is like BLAM!
I read a good article by Mark Fischetti called "Why not a 40mpg SUV?" in the November 2002 issue of Technology Review that mentioned a lot of next generation car technology that is really interesting. The public just doesn't hear about it because car companies don't want to change their ways. Of interest to me, particularly, was a constantly variable transmission that had many, many, little gears and would shift automatically, significantly increasing gas milage. This tech isn't new... in fact, the patent for it is EXPIRING! Just goes to show what we are capable in terms of improved car technology, and how little industry will there is to implement these changes.