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by bphogan 14y ago
Will the faculty be creating the assessments? I'd wager no. In many places businesses and curriculum-design people weigh in and approve curriculum created by faculty, so I could see those same folks creating assessments. Perhaps I'm overly
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by bphogan 14y ago
The "bizarre reason" is laziness. You can grade multiple-choice tests with a key. I don't think they really assess anything myself. I think a test like you describe is better but I don't see it in practice at the places I've worked. Thus I'
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by bphogan 14y ago
Good teachers aren't lecturing. They're facilitating. They're bringing in discussions, showing examples, and helping students learn. The reason the online classes work is because students figured out that instructor/content focused courses
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by bphogan 14y ago
I don't know... I feel that a final examination is no test of knowledge. It's a test of memory. It's regurgitation. I'd never do that in my class. I do have one class where doing well on the final project can get a failing student a passing
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by bphogan 14y ago
I've proctored an exam for an online class. There was no vetting. Nobody even checked that I was faculty anywhere.
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by bphogan 14y ago
It sure does. Kinda happens in public schools now - teachers teach to the test because they need the students to pass the standardized tests.
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by bphogan 14y ago
This is so they can ride out the end while the degrees mean something. I live in WI and am familiar with what's going on here with the higher-ed budget. If you give people a test they can take online, how long do you think it will be before
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by bphogan 14y ago
At least half the people I've seen on Hacker News doing startups want people to relocate to NYC or SF. Apparently lots of folks think face to face / butt in chair time is important for "team building" or something.
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by bphogan 14y ago
Dynamically typed languages are not the same as weak typed languages. Dynamically-typed languages, like Ruby, still have data types like String, Float, etc. I've seen people use floats in statically typed languages before and end up with r
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by bphogan 14y ago
Say you have parents who split up when you were two. Then say your mom works two jobs and doesn't help you with your homework, ever. Say you go to school on Monday and your first decent meal is the snack the teacher gives you on Monday morn
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by bphogan 14y ago
Ah yes, that's horribly, horribly wrong. :)
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by bphogan 14y ago
Valid HTML makes pages render better which helps out screen readers in certain cases. I've seen this in action too.
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by bphogan 14y ago
It's completely legitimate to have an input tag outside of a label. Even the link you provided states: The HTML <label> Element represents a caption for an item in a user interface. It can be associated with a control either by usin
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by bphogan 14y ago
I covered that in the tmux book briefly - you want the join-pane and break-pane commands. By default, prefix ! will break a pane into a new window, and join-pane will let you move a pane to a different window - you have to specify the windo
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by bphogan 14y ago
I would love to see a concrete, documented example of this code sharing between the server-side and client-side. I'm not interested in "context switching" but I am extremely interested in how to actually share code between the two environme
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Spec smell: explicit use of subject(blog.davidchelimsky.net)
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by bphogan 14y ago
In much the same way as JavaScript developers want to do everything in JavaScript, including write mobile apps (PhoneGap/Titanium) and server-side apps (Node.js). Learning is hard, and doubly so when you're in your comfort zone. You can der
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by bphogan 15y ago
PHP is one of the languages I believe every web developer needs to know reasonably well. It's not my go-to language though and I don't much care for it. Let me explain. My feelings on PHP are much the same as my feelings towards JavaScript
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by bphogan 15y ago
There's that, but there's also the fact that many of the prominent Rails tutorials tell you to start using a whole bunch of additional libraries that aren't Rails. I've seen that confuse many people.
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by bphogan 15y ago
If you're a beginner, as in, never made a web app in your life, Rails is going to be hard because it expects you to know so much. But if you're a seasoned web developer who knows JS, HTML, CSS, and SQL, and has a grasp on OO programming, Ra
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by bphogan 15y ago
The book is available in DRM-free epub, mobi, and PDF, and PragProg.com can deliver your books to a Kindle or Dropbox automatically. That's how I read books across my devices.
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by bphogan 15y ago
Wow, that's really humbling. Thanks so much for the kind words.
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by bphogan 15y ago
The 256 color thing is the most important and was something I struggled with for a few years before I figured out the problem - on Linux it was always fine, but on OSX, wow it was bad. Couldn't figure out why till someone else said the fact
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by bphogan 15y ago
Just passing this along - transcripts of videos would potentially make this more useful for low vision, blind users, and the hearing impaired.
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by bphogan 15y ago
I have never seen a web site that makes you prove your age to sign up. My daughter's friends all have Facebook sites. I refuse to let her. Their parents, on the other hand, allow it.
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by bphogan 15y ago
From the article: "Seeing a default Bootstrap “theme” site makes me leave it right away because I feel the person doesn’t care about what they are doing." That's a great way to miss out on content, which I believe is the reason many web sit
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by bphogan 15y ago
I think that may have been his point. There's a small group of people who insist that Microsoft's mobile devices will take off. Those will run IE. I know I've been pushed away from using certain libraries for that reason.
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Tmux - Productive Mouse Free Development(pragprog.com)
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by bphogan 15y ago
Thanks for this. Been thinking about this. Could you recommend a book on patterns like these?
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by bphogan 15y ago
Wrapping things in objects doesn't seem to help me. I'd still end up with this, thanks to callbacks. app.get('/documents', function(req, res) { Document.find().all(function(documents) { // 'documents' will contain all of

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