sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: Sketchnotes: WordCamp Developers Toronto 2012 Day 1 (#wcto) — UPDATE 2012-12-10: Now with links to slides! Quick notes from WordCamp Developers Toronto 2012 Day 1. Enjoy! Click on the images [...]
• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 10): Difficult situations — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Thoughts on speaking — I always ask why I let myself get suckered into preparing a presentation. I struggle with ideas, wrestling with [...]
• 2009: Working on not misplacing things — I misplace things when I get distracted. I absentmindedly tuck things into bag pockets or place them on the nearest [...]
• 2009: Thinking about Planner/EmacsWiki versus WordPress — Was it really only less than two years ago that I shifted from my venerable Planner-based wiki/blog to my WordPress-powered [...]
• 2007: Shopping — “Okay, I’m going off shopping now. See you later!” I said. “Five hours, then?” W- laughed, and so did I. He must’ve [...]
• 2007: Pizza — W- and J- made homemade pizza today. It was amazing. Just the right level of crunchiness, with none of the oily [...]
• 2005: On the up and up — My mom airmailed me a care package—around 30 packets of instant hot chocolate mix, and a wonderful card. I feel so [...]
• 2005: Interesting visualizations: Bible exegesis — Ever wondered which verses were cited more often than others, and in what context? Check out this Bible exegesis visualization. Think [...]
• 2005: Found my keys! — And I had plenty of hot chocolate and ice cream today, too. Life is looking up again. =)
• 2004: Hikarunix — eclair wrote in her blog: My sister [info]zhynchan seems to have been bitten by the Go bug again after I showed her [...]
• 2004: ISWC — ISWC is _the_ wearable computing event. Next year, it will be held in Osaka, Japan. You have no idea how annoyed that [...]
• 2004: Update on “Crazed” — UPDATE: Apparently, the only source for the Faye story is a paid advertisement, so the info is iffy. That’s a pity, [...]
• 2004: Trip! — ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-055732.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-092224.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-105802.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-113228.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-114506.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-115546.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-115644.jpg ../pics/japan/thumb-20041103-115704.jpg ../pics/japan/320×240-20041103-142612.jpg Tomoko picking a persimmon ../pics/japan/320×240-20041103-160324.jpg ../pics/japan/320×240-20041103-160736.jpg Fuji-san ../pics/japan/320×240-20041103-160410.jpg Fuji-san, Tomoko-san and me English translation follows. Don’t worry. =) (snip: corrupted Japanese translation) The trip to Yamanashi was so [...]
• 2003: Effective Ways of Teaching Computer Science 1 With Java — http://www.hi.is/~oddur/publicat/98/cs1article.html Resources - http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/survey/resources.html Lewandowski, G. & Morehead, A. ( 1998).
• 2003: Rethinking CS101 — http://www.cs101.org/ Way cool.
• 2003: JRoller — http://www.jroller.com/page/sachachua
• 2003: Teaching stories — bryce@uap.edu.ph
• 2003: Extreme teaching — http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeTeaching Hey, this looks like a really cool idea. Other teaching pages from that site: - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EducationalTechniques - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LearningProgrammingLanguages - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PatternsForTeaching - http://www.pedagogicalpatterns.org/ - http://www.pedagogicalpatterns.org/examples/LearningAndTeaching.pdf - http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/PedPat1.3.html - http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/writing/classroom-ed.html - [...]
• 2001: ACP registration panic — ACK! ACP reg starts _tomorrow?!_ I thought it started on Monday! Think quickly, Sacha. That means I need to [...]