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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:00:45 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [C-and-SEE] Getting My #%$!**@!!! Compiler to Work
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> OK, step away from the computer, make some coffee, pet the dog ... feel better?
OK, I have the coffee, and my pet dog is a "Robo-Dog", a toy imitation of
Aibo. I gave a robo-dog to the three year old daughter of a friend for
Christmas this year; and another to my dad who is pushing 80. Hard to get
a smile out of the old guy but he put it on the floor several times that
day and laughed as it walked across the floor, moving its head and wagging
its tail and saying, "woof, woof" while its eyes flashed.
There. I do feel better. Thank you for the psch advice. I AM 100% CERTAIN
OF SUCCESS WITH THIS PROJECT. And I had to step back and remind myself of
that. Why am I so sure of success? First, what is the objective of the
project?
It is to take a subject which is "complex, technical and difficult" and
turn it into a plain language course of instruction suitable for
"robo-professor". I chose a computer language for marketing reasons, so
this is in effect my MBA Thesis. This will be "a course in computing
taught by a computer" when it is done. I could have chosen courses I
passed in my undergraduate training like financial accounting, finance,
and managerial accounting. I would rate them as more "complex, technical
and difficult" than a computer language. But that doesn't have marketing
appeal. You see, when I started grad school I was accepted into phil-psych
at the same time as an MBA program. I don't miss the number crunching of
an MBA but I always wanted to do an MBA thesis. This is it.
As for learning C, I was reading with 90% comprehension up to Chapter 6/21
in SAMS until I got snafu'd by this compiler problem. But completion of
the course does not even require a compiler. That was supposed to add to
the fun. Instead it is doing the opposite. What I'll do now is just fiddle
around with this compiler problem until it is solved. The compiler
works. The pc shop tested it out. So the worst is I would have to go back
to them to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
When I get all of the C course translated into EL, will it be marketable?
Yes. Al Grimes is right about "resistances" to the very idea of this. Why
do you think I had my Alife-2000 Conference invitation withdrawn re a
presentation on auto-ed? So the second stage in "guaranteed success" is
the marketing of the automated C course. Logic this out. If you are a
student taking C or any other computer course online, will you take it via
a human professor when robo-professor instruction costs much less, takes
much less time and is much easier on the nerves? And the online market is
huge with about 2,000 colleges and universities now offering instruction
online.
This course is a freebie, to anyone wanting to read the yahoogroups
archives. When we get through the SAMS 21 days, I'll go back and do a
re-write, cutting out all the extraneous material (like my present
posting). It will be one continuous, fluid lecture by
robo-professor "As easy to read as Time magazine". Automated
courseware. Skinner's teaching machine era has arrived. The next course I
do will not be a freebie. I will do it in collaboration with anyone in any
specialized field who wants to collaborate. And it will be marketed at a
price like any software. Mind you, it will be much easier to pirate than
conventional software. But that's another problem for another day.
In any case, the obsolescence of present, human online college instruction
WILL be effectively demonstrated by this course. After MIT's 2,000 courses
go on OCW and then get translated into auto-ed, what will the profs
do? Maybe sit around with their students in coffee shops with robo-dogs
and chew the fat. For sure their role will be radically redefined.
FWP
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