2008: Writing presentation abstracts together —
When Jennifer Okimoto pinged me about possibly putting together a presentation for Web 2.0 Expo 2009 in San Francisco, I [...]
2007: A quick note before I go to bed —
Tested the trip up to 3600 Steeles today. It was okay, although I’ll
need to wake up earlier.
Backed up my files, [...]
2006: Emacs: Hideshow —
One of the things I love about vising irc.freenode.net #emacs is that helping people with their questions lets me discover [...]
2006: Psyched! —
I just got a flash of what my DemoCamp presentation on Emacs will be
like. <laugh> It’s going to be *so* [...]
2006: How to get to CASCON —
If you’re coming from downtown, you can take the subway to Finch and
the Viva bus from there. Three choices:
Viva Pink
Get [...]
2006: Next thing on the horizon: CASCON 2006 —
I survived the Toast I.T. Toastmasters Open House. Yay!
The next thing on my horizon is CASCON 2006, IBM’s free conference. [...]
2005: Broadband Mechanics is hiring —
Broadband Mechanics is hiring. They’re looking for
blogging-related hacking – RSS/syndication, blogging APIs, XML-RPC, REST, and all that sort of stuff.
You [...]
2003: Getting more oomph from programming exercises — education, research —
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=800968&type=pdf&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=13001757&CFTOKEN=12807104
Alan L. Tharp
Abstract:
Much attention has been given to the content of
introdutory computer science courses, but based on a perusal [...]
2003: Teaching quotes —
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_teachersandteaching.html
- A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (Thomas Carruthers)
- The teacher must derive not only the capacity, [...]
2003: World Lecture Hall – free e-learning courses —
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
Welcome to World Lecture Hall, your entry point to free online course
materials from around the world. Please browse, search, learn [...]
2003: A web of resources for introductory computer science — research, education —
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Educ/rebelsky/rebelsky.html
Abstract:
As the field of Computer Science has grown, the syllabus of the
introductory Computer Science course has changed significantly. No
longer is [...]
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