markdeloura

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by markdeloura 7y ago
That article is a useful summary but a tad sensationalist and should be read with a critical eye. Many of the debacles would be portrayed as successes by a different person with a different perspective. For example, Google for Education (
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by markdeloura 7y ago
Or perhaps Congress.
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by markdeloura 7y ago
FlightAware in particular gives you access to a greater level of data and services on their site if you're an active contributor via a PiAware. Also, honestly, it's just fun fooling around with the antenna and software setup to m
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by markdeloura 7y ago
Using Chrome 73 I was getting pretty wildly variable results back from performance.now() a week ago. Was near useless when trying to profile some game code. Apparently the timing results you get back in devtool perf tools are reliable, but
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by markdeloura 8y ago
Sphero as a company has done a great job making accessible bots that can be used for both fun at home and education at school. That gives me high hopes for this new bot! Expandability, swappable battery, and price point are top of the list
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by markdeloura 8y ago
What I remember most is what a big deal it was when UseNet started allowing ads - I want to say that was 1992 or so. Pre-WWW, UseNet was essentially a big BBS or social network for information sharing. I helped run the virtual reality newsg
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by markdeloura 8y ago
If you talk with U.S. educators, you'll find them passionate and knowledgeable, with strong opinions about how to teach their students best, yet little flexibility or finances to make any changes. Many of them feel locked in by tight c
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by markdeloura 9y ago
As an engineer who has pivoted toward education (I worked in the Obama administration on CS Ed and games for learning) I want to say "of course technology helps!" but what the drumbeat of research shows us is that it is no silver
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by markdeloura 9y ago
Having a touch screen now also enables the Chromebooks to run Android apps. My inexpensive $250 Chromebook from last year became 3x more useful when they added that functionality - there are just so many Android apps and a lot of them are l
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by markdeloura 10y ago
One of the great things about the Microbit is how simple it is - sometimes it is so much more difficult to produce something that is simple and intuitive, and that's the case here. The Pi Zero is a great device, of course, but as a ful
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by markdeloura 10y ago
Typically for a 5 year old I'd point them to something more like Scratch Jr, or the themed PBS KIDS Scratch Jr. http://pbskids.org/apps/pbs-kids-scratchjr.html
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by markdeloura 10y ago
The Kano OS also has a fun Blockly/Minecraft integration that is worth looking at. You can access it by buying a Kano kit or just download their OS to an SD card and boot it up on your own Raspberry Pi. Great stuff.
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by markdeloura 11y ago
Great job with your app! I'm enjoying playing with it. Java was a wise language choice given it is the language used by AP Computer Science A courses. I hope you will consider Javascript next, the Github code rankings show it as the mo
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by markdeloura 11y ago
It doesn't have much in the way of a tutorial yet - this PDF might be a better place to grow your understanding of Assembly Language: http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/
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by markdeloura 11y ago
Sorry... that's just totally not accurate. While there may be some who are not hacking code 24/7, it's because they're providing project management or leadership functions. This is a damn elite team of technologists ther
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by markdeloura 11y ago
You should reach out to 18F! While home base for them is DC, quite a few of the members are on the west coast. https://18f.gsa.gov/
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by markdeloura 12y ago
Another great program worth looking into as a technologist is the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Join government for 12 months and help tackle challenging problems with federal agency partners. The people in this program are reall