Re: [IAEP] [Edu-sig] Feedback sought on blog post: Where do all the geek girls go?

2009-07-28 Thread kirby urner
of advice: stick to world domination as our shared goal of our geek subculture, and we'll all get along just fine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3639256600/in/set-72157619963850814/ Kirby Urner in Portland Related blog posts: http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/os-bridge

Re: [IAEP] [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core ComponentofScience, Math Education

2009-01-14 Thread kirby urner
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada) gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com wrote: Actually, I was not talking about prodigies of any age. The idea was not about hitting a pre-teen with ... J, rather it's about using J as a workbench with which

Re: [IAEP] [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as CoreComponentofScience, Math Education

2009-01-14 Thread kirby urner
://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-January/008986.html On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:09 AM, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada) gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com wrote: k: =. kirby urner (partial quotes) g: =. gerry lowry (reponses to k

Re: [IAEP] [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component ofScience, Math Education

2009-01-01 Thread kirby urner
Yeah, lots of pro J sentiment on this list, including by me, author of 'Jiving in J' (got some help with typos from Kenneth, though I think there're still a couple): http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html There's a bit of a disconnect with the XO in that I really do think of it as for