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by _feda_ 15y ago
Is it just me or is the server very slow? I guess it's getting hammered to death right now.
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by _feda_ 15y ago
Any opinions/experience on the best language to introduce kids to programming with? My instinct says python simply because I personally found it the easiest to get to grips with, but I guess practically anything will do.
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by _feda_ 15y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of languages. Yes coding is important, that's the point of this thread, but natural languages as much as programming ones are integral to a good education, especially here on the other side of the pon
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by _feda_ 15y ago
I hope that if I ever have kids, I'll be able to educate them as well as I can in (in no particular order): 1. Basic programming & general computer skills 2. A foreign language 3. The ability to learn by themselves I have no desire to h
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by _feda_ 15y ago
I think it makes sense to mention the potential influence of raspberry pi on education here, it's potential that is to provide far greater accessibility to a superior coding/learning platform in education. The next few generations might ju
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by _feda_ 15y ago
I sense a certain disdain from much of the HN community for introvert/extrovert pop theory. They're all too frequently reduced to meaningless buzzwords.
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by _feda_ 15y ago
Sometimes I think mailing lists are the future aswell as the past. Something very elegant about them, moreso than something like google reader. The suckless-tools mailing list ( http://suckless.org/community ) is a great example.
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by _feda_ 15y ago
I think if ever a car was to be copied, the technology to allow it would have it's roots in today's 3D printers. Something that emulates the star trek emulator in a terribly rudimentary way isn't all that far off from what we have now with