Mike expounds on it here. It is a good article.
Mike’s blog is located here.
-
CONTENTS
Categories
-
RSS Links
-
Meta
Archives
Tag Archives: Learning
Why Mike Vanier loves computer science
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Study Flaws, Steady Flaws
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Over the past year or two, I’ve put a sincere effort in to, to put it simply, “learning new things” about programming. It has been a lot of fun, and it has taken some sincere effort. In the process, something interesting happened; I was forced to deal with flaws in how I study and learn. [...]
Programming in Education: OLPC Case Studies
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Ben blogged here about some stories about OLPC case studies. They are all worth checking out.
Listen to the following NPR articles (both found here):
Laptops for Kids in Small Towns May Not Be Panacea
Laptops Help Keep Migrant Workers’ Kids in School
And read this article One Laptop Per New York City Student a Success and report.
The company [...]
Analogies are a bridge
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Analogies are often used to introduce folks to new ideas, introducing them not directly, but through comparison and inference. This seems to work well in all areas, including technical. The risk in using them in technical matters, though, is that person will never move past the analogy and into the realm of accurately understanding the [...]
TeachScheme, ReachJava
Thursday, July 3, 2008
A silent revolution has changed the way computer science is understood and taught. The modern curriculum no longer focuses on the constructs of a language and the state changes in the machine. Instead, programming is taught as a problem-solving process that starts from a thorough understanding of classes of data and objects. The TeachScheme! Project [...]
Conference Paper Word Templates
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Back when my co-worker and I were preparing some white-papers (the research was the hard part), we decided to present them in “conference paper layout” initially.
SIGPLAN provides some such templates for MS Word here.
Alternately, here are some local copies:
sigplanconf.dot
sigplanconf-varsize.dot
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter is an essay about the lack of computer science in the educational curriculum today, and what can be done about it. They’ve come up with an interesting, and successful, approach.
[I want] to place computing where it belongs: in the hearts and minds of every single student.
Here here!
DEFUN08: ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
DEFUN 2008 invites functional programmers who know how to solve
problems with functional progamming to give talks and lead tutorials
at the The ICFP Developer Tracks.
We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful
libraries, and engineering approaches you’ve used that the world
should know about and apply to other projects. We want to know how to
be productive [...]
CUFP 2007 Videos available on Google Video
Monday, June 16, 2008
Re: CUFP 2007 Videos in the ACM Digital Library, they are also now available on Google Video.
You can find the talks by searching on CUFP07 or on the speaker’s last name.
Here is the list of speakers and presentations.
(via CUFP)
What a Programmer Should Study
Monday, June 16, 2008
To paraphrase a quote attributed to Avinash Meetoo’s unnamed professor in the comments section in this wiki article:
A programmer should be studying that which prepares him for his last job; not just his next, or current one.
– Grant Rettke