Re: [Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

2009-05-26 Thread Scott David Daniels
gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada) wrote: heading F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted) http://www.acm.org/ Also note, in this issue Mark Guzdial has a Viewpoints article entitled Education Teaching Computing to Everyone. The

Re: [Edu-sig] F.Y.I.: this month's cover story for CACM is OLPC: Vision vs. Reality (cross posted)

2009-05-26 Thread kirby urner
Scott: The media course used Python as the language.  The new media course achieved an 85% success rate for the three groups above, and had women succeeding at the same or better rates than the male students. Interesting stuff Scott. My eldest did a combined theater-CS major in Tennessee

[Edu-sig] Overloading (was Re: more on variable names)

2009-05-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo. The video: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=6950010fromSeriesID=695 My comment: idea that

Re: [Edu-sig] Overloading (was Re: more on variable names)

2009-05-26 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo. The video:

[Edu-sig] Simple Stats (curriculum fragment...)

2009-05-26 Thread kirby urner
Simple randomizer and tally machine. Drop a ball 'howmany' times so it falls left or right for 'howmany' rows of pegs -- like Pachinko http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/graphics/randtrianim.gif (c) GPL, 4D OCN 2009 Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Mar 14 2009, 14:06:26) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu