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by tsumnia 11y ago
ciupicri has it right. I mention above, I think of it like practice shots in basketball, or going to the batting cage for baseball. While coding isn't as physically demanding, it definitely takes time and practice to get better at it.
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Yup! Its suppose to be annoying (well, not 'really'). It's primarily a method to ensure the reader 'learns' by mimicking versus blindly copying. Annoying to a seasoned programmer, but its a great way for students to
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by tsumnia 11y ago
As others have discussed, making coding example images for the sole purpose of forcing them to type it out. Don't get me wrong, I copy/paste like the rest of us; however, from a learning perspective, I think forcing students to ty
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Maybe its me, but "Explained Visually" sounds more like it would have some 'visual' aspect to it besides a GIF of code (don't get me wrong, I think most code should be made an image to limit copy/pasting). A we
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Really interesting to see, it still looks a little cgi'd, so its really cool to see how close we're getting to the uncanny valley. I suppose with some After Effects, you could make it even more difficult see the difference. My onl
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Smart! Before I let them loose during the 3 hour lab, I spend about 15 minutes talking about the overall plan of a specific problem. For example, during looping, they had to flip a coin 1,000,000 times and record the results. I explained ho
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by tsumnia 11y ago
The bottom third is where I hope to see improvement with the introduction of typing exercises, lecture exercises (multiple choice/true-false/fill in the blank style questions) and also I include YouTube videos of that week's
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by tsumnia 11y ago
I teach Java and Python intro courses at two different colleges (both < 30 per class), and the way I've developed my courses are very unit test driven. The reason is when I hand graded, it would take easily hours to finish grading e
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by tsumnia 11y ago
While watching this, a thought occurred in my head: for these types of challenges, are the participants tested for PEDs and such?
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by tsumnia 11y ago
I have, and I hope they succeed (cause I'm building something similar!). I do think drills might be helpful, from a student's perspective, since they are still learning proper syntax. From a professional's perspective, typing
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Its actually more along the line of I currently am teaching the 'Intro to IT' course required for all business majors. In one light, the course is about making the rest of business understand what IT does; however from an IT stude
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by tsumnia 11y ago
I think if you force CS students to take a few business courses (or MIS courses), it can help dissolve the 'opinionated jerk' [elitist] stereotype that can come from CS students. They see that software development is only a piece
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Interestingly enough, this semester, I've begun including images of programming code that I force my students to type out specifically to give them typing exercises. There's no errors, and they're variants of stuff from the b
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by tsumnia 11y ago
I'd be curious who they brought in to test the iPad Pro out. I really enjoyed the fact Microsoft used Penny-Arcade for their Surface and even let them write about the experience. As a consumer, it made me feel like Microsoft cared a gr
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by tsumnia 11y ago
You linked it on the bottom of the page, but how do you think the article compares with http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc453/student_tutorials/principa... ? I'm planning to read through it a little more this wee
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Wish I'd seen this two weeks ago, I was just covering how the computer stores graphics. Thanks, I'll be sure to use this in the future!
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Awesome to see KA add SAT prep to their training material. When my buddy and I were prepping for our GRE tests, we used KA in conjunction with http://meli-lewis.github.io/GRE_Khan.html to prepare. Any friends that a worried
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Python 2.7.10 Released(python.org)
6 points by tsumnia 11y ago|0 comments
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by tsumnia 11y ago
Not funny at all! Its something that I am toying with on my end as well. I'll have to play with it this summer and let you know if I get anything rolling!
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by tsumnia 11y ago
I love your site and plan to use it as a teaching tool for my Wed Development course I'm teaching. As a request, are you working on a user system to record completed lessons? As an extension, are you looking into making a classroom man
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by tsumnia 12y ago
That sort of deviated into more of a 'this is what I do', but the ultimate goal was to try to ease the difficulty of the courses as best you can. If they're slackers, let them fail, but if they have a want to learn and it is
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by tsumnia 12y ago
Currently I teach Java courses (up to Data Structures) and I give the warning at the beginning of the semester. I don't use it as a scare tactic to be mean, but to help instill the sense of difficulty in the course. Programming is only
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Front, an Email Handler from the Creators of Inbox Checkup(frontapp.com)
1 points by tsumnia 12y ago|0 comments
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by tsumnia 12y ago
Since becoming an instructor, I love these tools to help reinforce what I'm teaching. Its rapid fire enough and randomized enough that you can fire off 5-10 small 'exercises' without having to build elaborate (in the student&
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by tsumnia 12y ago
I think it falls into a sort of "home automation/monitoring" model. As we move further into the "Internet of Things" spectrum, Google and Nest are just securing their place. Think about how Microsoft and Sony's
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by tsumnia 13y ago
Yup! My thought process is to have a standalone system installed at cosmetic kiosks in malls. Then, you're not wasting product on someone that doesn't buy, and if someone does want to buy, you've already got a list of product
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by tsumnia 13y ago
I love the idea, didn't see last week's but I'll join in today. Currently working on a project known as Senescere, latin for 'to grow old'. Before working in HVAC optimization, for grad school I was a research assis
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by tsumnia 13y ago
I'd love to see more information on the product. Like my profile says, I worked at an HVAC optimization company a few years back. We played with the idea of adding wireless vents to control flow, but parkrrr mentioned we were concerned
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by tsumnia 13y ago
Thanks for this! I'm actually using Heroku as well, so I might make the switch.
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by tsumnia 13y ago
Give me a few minutes and I'll write something up. I actually just finished Flask to S3 on a project I'm working on. Next stop is PostgreSQL to store the url's. EDIT: https://gist.github.com/tsumnia/99863

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