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kreddor··on Learnable Programming (2012)
I agree. To me, it's the only approach, but I've been doing it for so long. On some level, the students understand this as well, but doing it is a different matter, especially when it comes to programming. I teach on some very practice-orientated higher education programmes in Denmark at the level of a bachelor's degree. We tend to get different types of students than those who would apply for a bachelor's degree at one of our universities, which could also be part of the explanation.
kreddor··on Learnable Programming (2012)
This is so spot on. I teach CS as well and just taking a problem and dividing it into small tasks to be solved is something many students struggle with even near the end of our programme. This "mental leap" (the bridge between the problem and the steps to solve it using code) is the real barrier in my opinion. Most students won't have a problem understanding a solution when presented with it and wrongly thinks that just understanding a solution is the end goal, when arriving at it is the real challenge.
kreddor··on Cosmic rays and computers (1998)
Oh, this reminds me of the Radiolab episode about cosmic rays from last year. Fascinating story!

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f...

kreddor··on 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
Oh, I loved that game as a child. I'm still amazed at how much is accomplished with so little
kreddor··on 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
It's actually a pretty good remake. I liked both this and the original a lot back in the day.
kreddor··on Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network
So what would be a legitimate use of this tool? I mean, concerning the "scan the whole internet" part.
kreddor··on Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types
Worth noting that Civilization 6 now embeds Lua instead.
kreddor··on Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece
In my experience, the Civ 6 AI doesn't do combat well in limited areas either. And it hardly ever uses planes and bombers. I really hope Civ 7 will be focused on AI innovations.
kreddor··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
For the last few years, I've only used reddit through Relay for Reddit (Android app). The web experience is so awful that reddit has basically become a mobile only thing for me.
kreddor··on Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation
Well, as I understand it, Pomplamoose is mostly run by Nataly, not Jack (who's the CEO of Patreon).
kreddor··on GitHub isn't fun anymore
I agree completely. I miss folders for YouTube subscriptions as well. It seems folders are on the way out in most modern tools and apps.
kreddor··on Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
I was a usenet user back in the day, but I don't actually know how I would access it now. Is there any other way than using a commercial provider? My ISP certainly doesn't provide access and haven't for I don't know how long.
kreddor··on Google App Maker Shutting Down
And AdWords, obviously
kreddor··on Why We Disagree with The New York Times
Well, it definitely beats having to navigate the desktop version on mobile. Thanks for the link!
kreddor··on “Ghost in the Shell - Remake”
Access denied
kreddor··on Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots
Well, the bagage robot in the picture looks a lot like the one at Yotel in NYC: http://www.yotel.com/Hotels/New-York-City It broke last time I visited, but fun to watch when it's operational.
kreddor··on Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar on Macs
Except it was already an issue on Windows (has been for years).
kreddor··on Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
Sure, why not? It runs the Quake 3 client rather well actually.
kreddor··on InstaNerd
>User 'instanerd' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 75000)

whoops

kreddor··on IPv6 day: Turn Off IPv4 on 6 June 2014
I'm not aware of any ISPs in Denmark that support IPv6. This sucks. I'm switching to the first ISP that will offer it. But as of right now, if I switch off IPv4 I go offline.
kreddor··on Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor
Good question. All I know is that it's used for Gradle and Grails. Some people I know view it more as a scripting language...
kreddor··on Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.
kreddor··on How My Mom Thinks Search Engines Work
His mom sounds pretty smart actually. I imagine that most people know even less about how search engines works.
kreddor··on Piano emulator in HTML5
Here is another amusing alternative made using youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-sSolVDiY
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