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by ht_th 1mo ago
I just moved to Kampen, so if you can get a Zwolle thing going, I'm game
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by ht_th 7mo ago
I'd not worry too much about picking a major yet. Or rather, students typically need a couple of years in undergrad to figure out what exactly it is that they want, what motivates them, where their interests lie, etc. I've seen to
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by ht_th 8mo ago
https://heerdebeer.org
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by ht_th 11mo ago
Why not compliment them with a job well done? Add some details in your compliment that shows you've read their proposal.
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by ht_th 1y ago
Is it? It'll take a while for fertilizer and sun placement to take visually effect, and there's risk that short term effects aren't indicative of long term effects. How can you verify the recommendations are sound, valid, saf
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by ht_th 1y ago
I am not so sure. I've ran 98 on bad hardware, and it crashed regularly. So much so, that I installed linux on it already in 1998, and that was much more stable. It only crashed now and then. No doubt in both cases the poor hardware wa
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by ht_th 1y ago
Of course, hackernews or the font it uses (?), doesn't seem to support the bold and italics Unicode symbols. Although it does seem to support the supperscript ones.
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by ht_th 1y ago
The odd thing is, you can do quite some bold/italics/superscript in Unicode nowadays. Because, at least from the ASCII letter range, they have been used in symbolic ways in Mathematics, etc., and have been added to Unicode as symb
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by ht_th 2y ago
In my experience, once teachers retire or move on, or a course gets mothballed, it's only a matter of time for course websites disappear or become non-functional. If the course website was even on the open web to begin with. If they&#x
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by ht_th 2y ago
I did follow a curriculum set by Dijkstra's students. In the first trimester, we learned to program in Pascal, so we knew what programming was. The next two programming courses, in the second and fourth trimester, "programming&quo
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by ht_th 2y ago
And in some very flat countries, those landfillhils become nice recreational landscape features, for example, the "Col du VAM"¹ in Drenthe, the Netherlands. ¹ https://www.drenthe.nl/locaties/61224200/vam-
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by ht_th 2y ago
Besides, who knows how long theonion.com will stay up. Or keeps giving access to all old articles? After all, they've just been bought. Usually this results in changes, despite new owner's loud promises that nothing will change.
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by ht_th 2y ago
These aren't excuses, but observations. I've taught in classes of 12 and of 32, the differences in students' behavior, and in reaction my own was huge. Similarly, I've taught classes where students just came back from an
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by ht_th 3y ago
I wrote a short chapter about the path from ALGOL 60 to ALGOL 68: https://heerdebeer.org/ALGOL/succession.html . Wirths role in the division in working group working on the successor of ALGOL 60 is striking. Actually, t
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by ht_th 3y ago
It starts with the name "human resources ". All HR departments I worked with treated employees as resources rather than humans. Bureaucracy all the way, with a thin veneer of human connection that'd be gone the time you walk
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by ht_th 3y ago
I agree. And having to re-evaluate and improve your own mental models or local theories is part of learning anyway. That's not going away with these changes. But I think with these changes, the mental models will be easier to understan
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by ht_th 3y ago
Yes! The easier it is to get started with a language, the easier it is to learn and teach. Rather than focusing on (fighting) tools, you can focus on developing understanding of the core concepts of (Java) programming with a suitable learni
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by ht_th 3y ago
In my experience teaching introductory programming with Java, the problem is very real. For beginning programmers, making sense of the first Java program(s) results too often in misunderstanding of all sorts of concepts. Of course, you can
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by ht_th 3y ago
Worse, if stapling at the reception now takes significant more time than stapling before, that's costly too. Particularly when the stapler is in use when you need it, or someone borrowed it and now no-one can find it. Before you know i
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by ht_th 3y ago
No, but they might like the sort of projects the organization does with respect to complexity, or that they mostly serve governmental buildings, or that they work in the community they're part of, etc. In the end, you have to make a ch
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by ht_th 3y ago
True, but among the organizations that have work and money you can do to get the money, some seem to have aims or products or work in domains that align better with your views on the world than other organizations. In the context of job-get
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by ht_th 3y ago
I wonder, wouldn't it be better to focus on fine motor skills in (primary) education rather than penmanship? I mean, penmanship is becoming an anachronistic skill, and children see that too. I'd rather focus on fine motor skills w
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by ht_th 3y ago
Fountain. Although, I've used the dip pen too and that was even more of an hassle to use cleanly as a child.
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by ht_th 3y ago
Yes. Before the computer, it wasn't uncommon to write by hand and have dedicated typists type your work. Or have a secretary, assistant, or significant other do it for you. At first sight, there's no reason why this had to change
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by ht_th 3y ago
When I was young, and I had to write with a fountain pen, to write meant to situate yourself to write. A clean desk, sit at it well, have some blotting paper, and make sure the pen is clean. Think about what you're going to write, and
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by ht_th 4y ago
I like my NovaCustom I got at the end of last year, but I'm not sure how it compares to the ThinkPads.
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by ht_th 4y ago
Sure, not a problem. Most programmers do, probably. However, I've seen students use Stack Overflow and other resources as a source of "program stamps": - They enter their problem in an Internet search engine. - Click on the f
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by ht_th 4y ago
As a teacher, I like to start with "No". Then, in the next paragraph, I explain why, come with alternatives, etc. This way I clearly and unambiguously communicate the answer, but I also try to be helpful. Over the years I learned
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by ht_th 4y ago
I think the parent meant that you need to check if these commands are executed properly, otherwise you get into trouble later. For example, if the toilet paper isn't added to the shopping list, and you go shopping with this list the ne
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by ht_th 4y ago
I don't quite understand. I like challenges; I don't mind doing "FAANG Level work", whatever that means, at a small company. I don't care much for salary beyond getting a good salary for my locale. Having a great wo

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