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by teach 15y ago
Is this the one? http://timkay.com/aws/ I somehow hadn't seen it before; thanks!
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by teach 15y ago
No, we can't configure our own. The network settings config is locked out using policy controls.
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by teach 15y ago
The behavior also causes problems in my workplace, too. I work in a public school, and we use an Internet filter as required by law. One part of the filter is attached to our default DNS server, and it looks up novel domains to see if they
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by teach 15y ago
Educators are allowed to use movies in their entirety for face-to-face teaching situations. I am a teacher, and our school librarians are quite well-informed on the specifics of fair use for educators.
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by teach 15y ago
In my school we call them 'flash drives', which I like.
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by teach 15y ago
I don't think this does explain the disparity. Most core teachers I know also have an additional 10-20 hours of "unpaid" prep time. (Time outside that 40 hours, anyway.) I think the disparity is more reflected in the relative value of one-o
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by teach 15y ago
Yes, in my district teacher salaries range from $42,000 to $60,000 depending on experience (0 to 30 years of experience, respectively). My first year teaching I'd estimate I put in 70 hours a week. Now (with fifteen years of experience) it'
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by teach 15y ago
For what it's worth, a starting teacher in my district (a suburb of Austin, TX) would make $42,000 a year, for a 187-day contract. Assuming 8-hour days (admittedly unrealistic for a first-year tech), that's $28 an hour. I personally charge
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by teach 15y ago
Do you have some examples? I thought I knew a fair number of programming languages, and Python's got one of the most comprehensive. IMO, Python's stdlib beats C++, Ruby, Java, javascript and Perl....
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by teach 15y ago
Agreed. I learned about ge.tt from a HN comment on a Techcrunch story about Kicksend 4-1/2 months ago. And ge.tt has the fewest "clicks" to share a file I've ever seen. I've recommended it to non-technical friends a few times since.
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by teach 15y ago
I guess they didn't A/B a subject line with a comma... ("Merry Christmas, Zack!" vs. the incorrect "Merry Christmas Zack!").
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by teach 15y ago
Again, is this in 11.10? Or 11.04?
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by teach 15y ago
Have you personally tried changing to xfce, gnome-shell or KDE in Ubuntu 11.10? I have, and it's decidedly non-trivial. Switching to a different distro would probably be easier.
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by teach 15y ago
True, but in America the the 'before' photo is especially problematic. Though it clearly isn't pornographic, a topless (presumably) under-aged girl is potentially job-hazardous. For example, I'm a public high-school teacher; I'm quite glad
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by teach 15y ago
I have quite a few home movies of family members that take up quite a bit of space. And my personal music collection is in the 100s of gigabytes (all legally purchased and ripped from CD).
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by teach 15y ago
He wrote "for about 20 bucks", so I suspect he spent around $20. And "maxed out my Dropbox referrals" seems to imply that he did it up to the maximum for Dropbox referrals, which is 8 GB.
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by teach 15y ago
> "I was freaking out when I couldn't solve some Project > Euler questions, and pretty much lost all of confidence in > my programming abilities for a while. I've read way too many people online suggest Project Euler as a way to
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by teach 15y ago
I agree. I LOVE the python-in-javascript REPLs, but so far NONE of them have console i/o. (Python's raw_input command isn't implemented, for example.) And that makes these a non-starter for my courses unless I completely rewrite all my assi
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by teach 15y ago
My class is a high-school course. Not sure if you're suggesting that Khan Academy's material is pitched at college students, but I don't think that's true.
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by teach 15y ago
So what I'm suggesting is: take 200 students, and have 100 go through Khan's material, and 100 go through mine. Khan's kids would finish faster. Then, have all 200 kids attempt to code FizzBuzz on their own, with no assistance. I think prob
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by teach 15y ago
I also say "becomes".
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by teach 15y ago
It's unlikely that Khan Academy's curriculum is better than mine. My curriculum has been relentlessly pivoted and iterated based on feedback from over a thousand real students for the past fifteen years. I've taught literally one thousand t
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by teach 15y ago
The other high schools in my district do a more breadth-oriented first-year course using Scratch, Jeroo, Alice and Python, and that works pretty well for them. I will say that Stacy Armstrong's "A+ Computer Science" curriculum is quite good
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by teach 15y ago
I've got a bachelor's in CS, and teaching certificates in both mathematics and "computer information systems", which was what the CS certificate was called 15 years ago. There is now a teaching certificate in just "Computer Science", althou
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by teach 15y ago
You're welcome. Happy coding!
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by teach 15y ago
I'd bet $100 that the AP exam will switch to Python within ten years. And probably not much more than 5. (No sooner than that though, or they'd have to have announced it already; major changes in public education need a LOT of lead time.) H
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by teach 15y ago
How many kids take the class? How many do well? I have 75 kids in three sections, and I'd have 100 kids in four sections if they'd open up a fourth section. And all of my students except maybe the bottom 5-10% are moving confidently through
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by teach 15y ago
First, thanks for the kind words. This curriculum has been relentlessly pivoted and iterated based on feedback from over a thousand real students for the past fifteen years. Yes, this is a whole year (36 weeks). The material you're seeing
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by teach 15y ago
I'd be honored for you to point some folks at my assignments, although please only share the link one-on-one: a few of the assignments on there (the ones with an author of "Stacey Armstrong") are part of a curriculum that our district pays
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by teach 15y ago
I wish we could start teaching real programming in middle school at least. I think just variables, if statements and some sort of looping construct ought to be mandatory in education.

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