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http://introtopython.org http://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming It got some stars when I first introduced it about a year ago, but I'm mentioning it because I've just picked up development
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So, advertising that's hard to distinguish from what you think you're reading? In the context of education, that sounds pretty ugly and manipulative.
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We have a 2008 Macbook (aluminum body, I forget if it's a pro), which my wife passed along to my three-year-old son. He is not the gentlest with it, and it's still running strong. We have a 2013 Macbook pro that's been nothin
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> two days a month of guaranteed availability, $3k a month How do you manage this wih multiply clients? Heartbleed comes out, and all of your clients want two days of exclusive work fixing their issues. Is it first contact, first served?
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I've been picking up where I left off about a year ago on http://introtopython.org , an open resource for teaching and learning Python. It's based on IPython notebook, so anyone who knows how to work with IPython notebo
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380232
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I just had dinner with two other devs tonight I randomly met at PyCon. Both of them do contract work, and have to turn away work. Neither of them ever specialized in any particular language; they both just focused on using code to solve pro
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I lived on a bicycle for 13 months, and then I rode a motorcycle for a few years. Both are great ways to travel, and they do take you a little farther from mainstream society than a car does. If you're careful, riding a bicycle through
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I teach high school math and science, and I teach an intro to programming class sometimes. I'm also working on building some open tools that address long-standing inefficiencies in education. I'm looking forward to: - the Educatio
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Ask HN: Who's heading to PyCon?
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> Good. All of this stealing of personal information as a business model is pretty ethically questionable. I agree that "stealing personal information as a business model" is something we should minimize. But is Edelson going a
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> Comments There's certainly a base element of comments that should be independent of who you're replying to - you should reply to the comment, not the person. But one of the joys of HN is getting to interact with really intere
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Are you suggesting HN include rel='nofollow' for URLs in user profiles?
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Thanks, that will work slightly better for urls that are on their own line where I can triple-click and select the url. But many links are not on their own line, and I have to use the mouse to select the link. I forget if there's a val
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First of all, thanks for the first hand perspective. I work in a small alternative school that's explored a number of models, and we're still finding the right model for us. I tell students about Sudbury schools from time to time,
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If you like this idea, you might want to check out Cheatography - it's a tool for creating stylish cheat sheets. I used it a little when it was first announced, but haven't kept up with it. It's a great idea, and the develope
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> I would love to learn more about this, can you give me any pointers or links? http://elschools.org/ - This is the application of Outward Bound principles to education. It is not just taking students outdoors - you can
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You describe yourself as a janitor with a math phd in a fully democratic school. I imagine janitorial work in a school that kids want to be at is much different than janitorial work in a traditional school. Do you end up teaching on a regul
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I saw this posted the other day, but I still have one unanswered question. The free tier is now ~350 hours/ month. Dynos go to sleep after 1 hour. Does that mean an app that's used a few times a day will be free, because sleeping
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Ask HN: Should we have links in HN profiles now?
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> I have found it very difficult to support more than 5 or so children who are all doing different things, even if they are focusing on a common subject and broadly similar tasks. The only way for a teacher to reasonably teach a class of
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> Going straight from being educated to educating is insular. Teachers do things because that's the way it was done to them. Yes, this is a problem in education. I would like to see a great deal of improvement in teacher education p
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Can you describe how graduation works at a Sudbury school? Does everyone have to meet the same requirements as in most school systems, or are graduation requirements tied to each student's stated goals?
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What kinds of projects are you most interested in contributing to? What kinds of real world problems are you hoping to help solve?
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Are the developmental delays long term, or just focused in primary/ else tardy grades? I've been envious of my peers who grew up bilingual; none appeared delayed when I knew them in late middle school and beyond. In fact, they see
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I'll try to share some examples in a bit. Short reason this approach is "lossy": it's a huge game of telephone. Translation retains most of the translated concept, but not all of the concept's subtleties. The farthe
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Yes. Because each language holds concepts that are unique. A language is more than a collection of symbols that can be replaced arbitrarily with another language. Languages, particularly indigenous languages, contain ideas and ways of under
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I just googled "creationist explain antibiotic resistance". Wow. But it would be fun to talk to some of these people!
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Do you have any sense of how these people reconciled their understanding of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with their denial of evolution? (I assume they are aware of the mechanics of how antibiotic-resistant bacterial populations develop.)
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It's the same author, and basically the same article: This essay is adapted from a piece originally printed in the March/April 2015 issue of Orion.

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