[FRIAM] Fwd: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford Online

2013-12-18 Thread Owen Densmore
I've read a book or two by Devlin in the past, mainly for finding the book my family might enjoy (Bob especially). The books were pretty good. He now has a MOOC, based on a book I haven't read Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

2013-12-18 Thread Arlo Barnes
CryptoCards Anything like a SecurID? From Kevin Mitnick's autobiography excerptedhttp://books.google.com/books?id=p-nRxITKc34Con Google Books: [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

2013-12-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 12/18/13, 11:13 AM, Arlo Barnes wrote: CryptoCards Anything like a SecurID? Organizations that use SecurID may prepend or append a password to a token provided by a device. The token changes every few seconds. CryptoCards (the brand) are different in that the password is set when

[FRIAM] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups

2013-12-18 Thread Owen Densmore
More from the pencil code author: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coffeescript/EFwDMClKKh0 .. about the effectiveness of Blockly .. like StarLogo TNG. So here's the question: if I learn in blockly-style programming, will it impede the jump to text based programming? Steve tells me

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford Online

2013-12-18 Thread cody dooderson
Heres another interesting MOOC. Any takers? https://www.coursera.org/course/artificialvision Cody Smith On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I've read a book or two by Devlin in the past, mainly for finding the book my family might enjoy (Bob

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups

2013-12-18 Thread Joshua Thorp
I am a fan of block based programming languages for younger students. And yes I think the transition from TNG to Netlogo is pretty straightforward and painless… The biggest advantage I see in block languages, and this may seem minor but I can tell you from experience it isn’t, block based

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups

2013-12-18 Thread Arlo Barnes
Agree with what Josh has said; it is nice to separate the concepts from technique (like readability) while also beginning to teach ideas like giving variables and functions descriptive rather than throwaway names. Also, I think the process of reëxamining what you have experienced so far that has