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by juliendorra 12y ago
About "it's more work on their part": when I lowered drastically the number of my slides, and started to put emphasis on facilitating the creation by my students of their own knowledge I had the guilty feeling of not spending
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by juliendorra 12y ago
about comments being washed out: in the quest of writing good source code for kids (easy for kids to read, adapt and use) I found that comments should be not only an integral part of the source, but probably not highlighted as a single bloc
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by juliendorra 13y ago
I see Sexism, Racism, Islamophobia (and speed limits !) mentionned as taboo and unspeakable several times in this thread. I'm not sure we live in the same era. There is mainstream politicians all over Europe and the US saying sexist,
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by juliendorra 13y ago
If I'm remembering well, craigslist started as very very local. And then expanded city by city.
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by juliendorra 13y ago
Really nice to see a new ambitious program. As a you are a non profit, I'm interested to learn about how you imagine working with other existing initiative like (from memory) Coder Dojo, or Girls who code. (We of course need thousands
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by juliendorra 13y ago
It can go very far, sadly: I found the story of a guy killed because he was homonymous when I wrote http://ils.sont.la/post/is-your-name-web-ready some time ago. Homonymity is never really an asset: you don't cont
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by juliendorra 13y ago
In term of teaching strategy, if you separate the hands-on, try and tinker things, from the more fundamental, you end up with only half of the learning process. A good teaching format will help you learn the fundamental by connecting it to
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by juliendorra 13y ago
When I was a teenager, back in 1993, I played with this this genetic image generator by Karl Sims, running on a Connection Machine with 32768 processor: http://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html (At the Pompidou Center, a
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by juliendorra 13y ago
From what I gather the 42 team has a really poor view of anything web-dev related. They have this idea of creating "hardcore devs", because supposedly they are better and if you can code hardcore you can code anything. (An idea th
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by juliendorra 13y ago
This has nothing to do with unions and all to do with the archaic views on education and developers of the founders. Note that I teach in a French web school where students do work on real projects from real clients, for free, in year 2 a
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by juliendorra 13y ago
There is more to it than this idealistic view: 42 is very excluding for women, succeeding in bringing in les than 7% women. Less than a classic computer engineering school in France apparently. So much for inclusiveness. (They managed tha
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by juliendorra 13y ago
I'd like to point the most excellent Automation Song (1964) by Phil Ochs as still relevant here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WbSTnuXv_3Y&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
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by juliendorra 13y ago
During Coding Goûter sessions, kids as young as 5 have played and created things with Scratch 1.4 and loved the experience. They are begging to come back, and it becomes a very usual thing to do, which is exactly our goal. (Note that we mix
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by juliendorra 14y ago
These two posts from actual successes building more gender balanced tech conferences will give a better perspective on the core issue (gender and ethnic diversity): "Beating the Odds — How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012" http