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by eah13 9y ago
https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt while you wait
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by eah13 9y ago
I think it's important to distinguish user groups. No solution is best for all of them. For scientists or data analysts, jupyter notebooks are a great choice since they mirror the professional and research tools they'll use. For w
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by eah13 9y ago
I'm a co-founder of Trinket and thought I'd explain why we chose Skulpt. Client-side execution lets you do visual things that would be slow and complicated (maybe practically impossible) if you ran them server side. Visual results
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by eah13 9y ago
I can second this sentiment. Meredydd and Albert Jan have made a good deal of Skulpt's most technically interesting features (which in turn enable a more seamless user experience). I'm a cofounder of Trinket and we knew early on t
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by eah13 9y ago
I'm a big fan of datacamp. You should definitely give this a try. It would be great to expand the reach of your lessons without the infrastructure overhead of every user hitting your server with their code. Hit up the skulpt dev listse
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Life is long(medium.com)
2 points by eah13 11y ago|1 comments
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The Programs I Will Never Write(medium.com)
1 points by eah13 11y ago|0 comments
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by eah13 11y ago
I second pretty much everything in here.In my meeting we were essentially working together grooming a github issue- I could imagine that issue being addable as a tab behind or instead of the notepad.
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by eah13 11y ago
we (your users) are your test suite :) Nicely done- looking forward to the next iteration
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The Myth of 'Serious' Code(medium.com)
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Soylent Freegan, Diet of Champions(medium.com)
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by eah13 12y ago
I'd say yes. Another Cathedral bazzar is Meteor. Open source, but with a relatively centralized organization.
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Python Asteroids Clone in the Browser(blog.trinket.io)
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by eah13 12y ago
Wow! Amazing progress. Congrats Joyce & crew.
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by eah13 12y ago
Sounds like your relative had an above-median learning rate. But a median 10 year old could likely learn a new language to fluency in even less time.
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by eah13 12y ago
I'm happy to wade into that debate, because I think it's relevant. When this article first came out there were comments near the top questioning the relevance of this type of inquiry as, roughly, unscientific. I wanted to show h
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by eah13 12y ago
Startups, and startup founders as a whole are rare phenomena. Don't read anything more into the analogies than that. Thanks, though, for the word of caution.
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by eah13 12y ago
if code wasn't a human language we'd write it in binary, straight to disk.
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by eah13 12y ago
Interesting that you've found language study techniques useful. I also believe we should teach code like we teach other languages: http://blog.trinket.io/code-and-language/
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by eah13 12y ago
I believe they're roughly synonymous, yes. The processes of aging and aculturation both involve an ossification of our ideas and concepts that make learning new ones comparatively difficult. Vinod Khosla has talked extensively about h
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by eah13 12y ago
Agreed. A focus on gender is warranted, but not to the exclusion of other demographics. There are likely a great many large startups waiting to be built in each under-represented demographic. These startups aren't yet built because n
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by eah13 12y ago
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=language+learning+rates+... It's well documented that the median language-learning speed/ability of younger people is greater than that of older people.
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by eah13 12y ago
In the beginning there was the command line (1999) is the best I know http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-Comm... Happy to hear suggestions of others- I haven't found much and haven't
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by eah13 12y ago
Interesting take, and I think I see your point with that clarification of your view of stages of thought. I don't share that concept of the progression of ideas, nor do I feel the need to make the distinction between science and pre s
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by eah13 12y ago
I'd say human language is the superset of artificial language and natural language. Though the artifical/natural labels are a poor fit. Experience is a big factor, but I think there's a limit to the amount of language learni
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by eah13 12y ago
No, though I don't think you're alone in drawing the line of science around deduction. I think of science as a cycle: Phenomenon > observation > Induced hypothesis > Method choice > Deduction via metrics > Phenomen
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by eah13 12y ago
This is part of something I hope takes hold in CS education: ontogenous education. Ontogeny is the study of the development of organisms throughout their lifecycle. Technology develops in a way that often makes the present as dissimilar f
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by eah13 12y ago
False dichotomy. Mathematics is also a human language. Code and mathematics are more similar in many respects than code and Spanish. but they all share common features of being cultural, mutable, consensus-based, imperfect, and historical
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by eah13 12y ago
I'd disagree with that. I think coding languages are in a very real sense human languages. They have less history, less literature, less culture, and different uses but they have history, literature, culture, and uses just like any l
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by eah13 12y ago
+1 to back-testing the stats. Edit: whoa, downvoters! This comment was about getting more information to inform productive discussion. Not sure who would disagree with that?

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