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by edtechdev 13y ago
I agree with all the problems of adjuncts - extremely low pay, no benefits, no input into university decisions, etc. But I disagree with the primary reasoning in the article: "when you have an adjunct professor instead of a full-timer,
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pi is 3.141... so it's the .141... part
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I mistakenly installed a Minecraft modloader for my son without checking it out first. It silently installed a couple of local Chrome extensions that injected ads in every page. It would reinstall them (again, silently) every time you del
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Google is just researching and trying out new products that can potentially help their bottom line - so what if some may not explode in popularity. Their bottom line is to get more exposure to their ads, and I'm not arguing if that&#x2
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Why I can’t call myself a gamer anymore(salon.com)
23 points by edtechdev 13y ago|84 comments
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No: edX tried matching 868 high-performing MOOC students with employers, and none were hired. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/edx-drops-plans-to-co...
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A comparison of Javascript IDEs(nilzorblog.com)
2 points by edtechdev 13y ago|1 comments
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That pyramid is called Dale's Cone of Experience, created by Edgar Dale in 1946. The percentages were not part of his original pyramid, they are just made up. And there is no research verifying the 'order' of the parts of th
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by edtechdev 13y ago
Here are actual activities people can do online to get exposed to coding: http://csedweek.org/learn including an activity for people with no programming experience: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1
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Teach the Hour of Code(code.org)
1 points by edtechdev 13y ago|0 comments
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Anybody Can Learn: The Hour of Code is Here(codeorg.tumblr.com)
3 points by edtechdev 13y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 13y ago
To be fair, I see similar issues in many programming languages - taking features from other (earlier) programming languages out of the context where they originally made sense. The colon in python, for example, makes sense for aiding readab
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by edtechdev 13y ago
I've seen this argument before in other scenarios (open education, etc.). It is technically correct but pointless. Just about anything we do to raise living standards in society increases the gap between rich and poor. Does that mean
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by edtechdev 13y ago
That is an awesome response to the original article. The only data she can find (KDnuggets survey) indicates that both R and Python are growing in popularity, not one at the expense of the other. 61% use R and 39% Python.
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You can also learn a lot by studying (and even contributing to) other open source compilers. Here are about 100 javascript-based compilers, including tools for compiler writers at the bottom: https://github.com/jashkenas&#x
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How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, And Rose Again(readwrite.com)
1 points by edtechdev 13y ago|0 comments
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I don't either, although while I think dart is an improvement over javascript, it also is basically just like java. I'd prefer a runtime that multiple languages could easily compile to, but until then there are several languages
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It doesn't matter - Dart can compile to JavaScript. When it might matter is if there are apps (like games) that run faster in a Dart VM than in javascript. Anyway though, even Chrome doesn't include a Dart VM yet by default, so n
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Sheetsee.js: JS library that turns a Google Spreadsheet into your app's database(github.com)
7 points by edtechdev 13y ago|0 comments
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1,1,1 is black, also
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Great piece, great thoughts I'm glad you were able to get some good experiences out of the MOOCs that focused on more relevant, practical skills (startup engineering, technology entrepreneurship, etc.). I wish more faculty (teaching MO
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by edtechdev 13y ago
The update also makes Chrome blurry (and other apps like Steam) You have to right click the Chrome desktop icon -> properties -> compatibility -> disable display scaling Then go to Chrome settings -> advanced settings -> incr
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by edtechdev 13y ago
Yeah physics departments should share this article with incoming students, to help them see where the field is going. Although one thing missing is that I would want to find another article that illustrates the ways that physics research i
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by edtechdev 13y ago
As I mentioned, but you still downvoted me, I didn't downvote lisp. I have used lisp - required to use it in a course. And I do recall seeing that many parentheses in lisp programs. I recall seeing that many parentheses (and curly b
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by edtechdev 13y ago
I don't dislike groovy - I remember studying the compiler 8 years ago (I was helping work on the boo compiler at the time). But every programming language I've ever seen has flaws - that are both objective and subjective. If I we
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I didn't down vote those or other languages I haven't really used. But you honestly can't think of any feature of those languages that might turn people off? ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((? any))))))))))))))))))))))))
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You can actually replace 1 Macbook Air with 4 Chromebooks But more generally, most of the things most people do on a laptop can be (or are) done in the browser. You can even do image and video editing in the browser nowadays, as well as pr
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by edtechdev 13y ago
"paste this in Chrome's address bar: chrome://flags/, use Ctrl+F to search for "Enable Instant Extended API" and click" Disable Although it only appears to be enabled on non-Linux platforms
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This data rewards schools that reject more applicants and/or fail more students (prevent them from graduating). Because that increases the average & median of their graduates. Charter schools and private schools do the same thing
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One recent one is NoFlo http://noflojs.org/ A well established one for kids & novices is Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/ And you can see some other javascript-based visual programming tools here: http

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