Archive for the 'education' Category

Half of Ireland "Computer illiterates"

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Silicon Republic announces today “Half of Ireland ‘computer illiterates’“.

If this means half of Ireland is computer literate I’d call that success.

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Scratch - Educational Programming from MIT

Friday, March 16th, 2007

I have had a vague plan that someday I might teach my kids to program. Originally I planned to use a Logo dialect but Sean recently sent me a link to Scratch, the new programming environment for teaching children how to program. Its a graphic interface that runs on Macs and Windows is highly interactive and piggybacks on the turtle graphics model of Logo. However scratch is a much richer and more interactive environment with sounds, animation and a graphical programming language that insulates you completely from the VI/Emacs wars so prevalent in other programming communities :-)

I’ve only had a quick play with it tonight but so far, so good.

Of course sooner or later, they will have to graduate to Python (the one true programming language).

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How to study - by zefrank

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

ZeFrank gives some pretty good tips on how to study. Really!

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