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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Cheap, but not free. Modular code has a price...
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Introduction and Spoiler Alert Recently, Nico Ekkart asked on the Google+ Python Community for suggestions on how to speed up his Python i...
Friday, May 17, 2013
Education Automation - R. Buckminster Fuller
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A few months ago, in response to one of my "education" tagged blog posts, an old friend from high school contacted me via Faceboo...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
How does Python identify the type?
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In the CS101 forum, a student noticed that types significantly influence the computations in python, but that we generally don't declare...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Education's Future: "Go Do Something Interesting".
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Another interesting TED talk on the future of education. The speaker is Seth Godin . The question is "What is school for?". h...
Monday, May 13, 2013
Copied code or Unfortunate coincidence?
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My blog post today is another reposting of an item I'd originally submitted to the Udacity CS101 forum. This item isn't at all Pytho...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Can Computers Replace Teachers?
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Can/Should computers replace teachers? It is clear to me that computers are not capable at this time of eliminating the role of teachers. ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Robot Wars
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Udacity.com CS101 has a unifying theme of building a web crawler and search engine as you learn Python. It's a well chosen project be...
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