Great links, Kirby, Love reading the stories of how the young programmers got their start on a website just to build worlds for their virtual pets.
And the comment that programming is like solving a puzzle, and the great feeling you get when you solve a problem. Thanks, Peter On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:00 AM, <edu-sig-requ...@python.org> wrote: > Send Edu-sig mailing list submissions to > edu-sig@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > edu-sig-requ...@python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > edu-sig-ow...@python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Edu-sig digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: mixed messages about math... (kirby urner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:46:00 -0700 > From: kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> > To: "edu-sig@python.org" <edu-sig@python.org> > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] mixed messages about math... > Message-ID: > <CAPJgG3QxV9Cjk24Z-531vDt=dpn2JNy+SLtoQApr0pNsgVOi9g@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:10 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I was just drafting another blog post for CERM Academy, > > which manages streams of thought pieces going out to > > subscribers, then warehoused in a WordPress site. [1] > > > > > Update Aug 9: > > Here's a link to the article I ended up publishing, not through > CERM as it turns out (Greg thought it maybe too specialized > to a specific readership) but in a more "find its own way" > environment: > > https://twitter.com/4DsolutionsPDX/status/762797526802059264 > > (a tweet that goes to my essay 'The Plight of High School > Math Teachers', if curious). > > << SNIP >> > > [1] http://cermacademy.com/ > > Down at the moment, Greg expects it up and running in 24 hours. > > The code school featured by Greg's daughter Margaux for > WorkingIT.com held it's Monday Night Flying Circus again > last night: > > http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2016/08/at-circus.html > > [ > > Here are some thumbnail profiles of <guild /> personnel, by > Margaux, Greg's daughter: > > http://workingit.com/blog/category/thought-leadership/ > > Introduces the director and her two daughters, a few years > older than Margaux > > ] > > I like that we're eclectic, devoting whole evenings to JavaScript > as much as Python. It's the synergies in this ecosystem that > give us leverage, whereas "Python in a bottle" (no discussion > of context) is too "night in a museum" right? > > Pays to "play well with others" (for real). > > If in Portland, swing by... > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/albums/72157664766721643 > (2626 SW Corbett) > > and also visit Portland Python User Group @ Urban Airship, > interesting building in SW Portland: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/albums/72157655578412223 > > (ironically none of the buildings depicted, but still good for context) > > Kirby > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/attachments/ > 20160809/3700a3eb/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Edu-sig Digest, Vol 157, Issue 6 > *************************************** >
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