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It is a nice idea but some of those cartoons look very confusing and would be confusing to a novice. I think asking the user about themselves then finding a sim
by thomk 9y ago
It is a nice idea but some of those cartoons look very confusing and would be confusing to a novice. I think asking the user about themselves then finding a simile to explain the new thing is better.
It puts the effort on the teacher which is where it should be. Making things easy to draw doesn't bridge the gap of complexity.
- afarrell 9y ago> asking the user about themselves then finding a simile I do this when in conversation, but how do you do this in broadcast?
- abledon 9y agoOne solution: Start off the sentence with describing the persona the reader can take on to ‘live’ through the example. “say your a stay at home dad with 4 kids running around but they all want to share the same toy, you enforce a round robin scheduling rule for the kids , they pass the toy around one after the other”... similarly when using technology foobaroo , apps sharing a resource etc...
- Too 9y agoAgree, I like the style but i don't really see these as very educational. The floating point comic which is being brought up as a good example does no explaining at all, it's just a bunch of random numbers and equations, why 2^52? where does that 52 enter the picture and how does it relate to the 64 bits from the first box? Why is +0.2 being rounded? Just showing the exponent/fraction division would have made it so much clearer. Many of the comics have the same traits, they are cute or might be useful as cheat sheets if you already know the topic but can't really be used to teach someone about it.