Sunday, July 28, 2013

Pythonic Python - Writing Python code that fits the language's idioms.

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A recent posting by +Luke Plant to the Google+ Python community about the importance of PEP-8 reminded me that for quite a while now I...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

MOOC's: Be careful what you wish for.

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There's an old warning that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Here's an article from the Sla...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

FIeld Trip and an Unusual Looking Flag

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Flag image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 June 2001 A few weeks ago, while we were visiting my brother-in-law in a nursing home in Queens, we h...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Recursion

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One of the interesting computer science topics that Udacity CS101 introduces is "recursion". Recursion is where you define a fu...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Ken Robinson on how to effectively run an education system - Command and Control isn't the right choice.

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Ken Robinson surely must earn a lot of air miles giving talks at TED conferences. Here's another one, from fairly recently. May 2013...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Told You So - MOOC forum participation is important

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If you have been a regular reader of this blog and have a long memory, you may recall that back in December of 2012, in my article " I...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

A Chem teacher cautions against "Pseudoteaching"

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Several times now I've come across mentions of "Pseudoteaching" in my reading, and I confess to not quite grokking what that ...