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Perils and Patterns in the Search for Perfection

"Freedom of the will" - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor…

Plotting Deviations

Well, now the election's over, and there's not much left to do but wait til the coalition is announced (and perhaps look at some visualizations of the results), I have a bit of personal news to relay... As…

Left Out

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning…

A Real Knowledge Economy

The state of science education in New Zealand, is in dire need of a massive creative rejuvenation, but it can only occur to it's fullest once there is widespread knowledge of an irreconcilable crisis…

The Difference Between Programming and Software Development?

Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer: So, learning Python and Haskell has demoralised me and encouraged me to write code that is bizarre and difficult to understand, and,…

10 LET M EQ MIND ROT 20 GOTO 10

I hate to agree with grouchy old Dijkstra, but unfortunately now it's impossible to deny: BASIC is what killed my ability to be a truly great programmer. Dijkstra was right, GOTO completely rots your…

Shiny Shoes

Why is one person who cares about children learning to program, if Cut Holes In Shoes And Get A Mask is anything to go by. Many people would think this is completely insane, or merely reinventing…

Lessons learned from FullCodePress

Since Ali posted 20 things I learned at FullCodePress, I thought I'd chime in with my own observations from the perspective of being programmer for the Code Blacks: Working side by side is…

OLPC in Peru

A fascinating chronicle of introducing the One Laptop Per Child project to a small school in Peru. One particular aspect that really jumped out at me was: On the first day, we also discovered that…

Room for improvement: Women in OSS

It just wouldn't be fair to ask where are the women in open source and criticize open source usability without providing some kind of summary of how we can do something about it. Humanized…

Introducing Historiographica

So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and…

Webstock 08 Wrap

Wow. Last week was absolutely crazy. Aside from being super busy at work and trying to keep several part-time music and design projects ticking over (!!), I attended Webstock 08 (aka The Nat Torkington…

A True Intellectual

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. - John McCarthy For some reason, I found…

Startups and the Future of Journalism

Y-Combinator has published a list of ideas they'd like to see new startups tackle. Aside from obvious criticisms (we're already well familar with Paul Graham's penchant for proselytizing certain forms…

The Stress Addiction Loop

In the last 30 years neuroscience has given us great insight into the workings of the human brain and as more information emerges, it becomes clear just how out of step with reality conventional attitudes…

Learning to Read Code

Usually when I write spontaneously here, it's because a topic or idea has been percolating in my mind for a while, and I will stumble across a reference or blog post that provides the necessary…

Robots & Visual Programmers

After recently discussing the widely underestimated importance of visual programming, it’s great to see research like Visual Programming Environments For Kids.

Respecting Creativity?

‘Respecting Creativity’ encourages teachers to introduce the concept of intellectual property and the debate surrounding copyright issues to a classroom discussion.

Why? Oh _why?

_why has gone. Left the intarwebs. And in the process, he tore down the house, and leveled the garden.

Windows into the Mind

“Just as soon as we begin to hone the ability to communicate through images it is stripped away from us.”

Data or Design?

“Every time we went down the ‘wrong’ path, we learned something concrete — if not about software than at least about people”

Real Learning

We can only learn through crisis and disruption to existing assumptions and patterns of knowledge.

Programming Again

It’s hard to explain the collision of forces and events that has occurred over the past several months.

Game Changing

How video games trained a generation of athletes.

The Structure of Elegance

The dumbing-down of programming

Math for the Layman

The Big Here

How to Develop a Mindset for Math

Decision Tree Learning in Ruby

Indirection Is Not Abstraction

You and Your Research

Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours

Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?

A cognitive study of early learning of programming

The Principals of Play

Inside Higher Ed :: The Surprising Process of Writing

Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution

Ten lessons

Taming Your ‘Target’ Content

Visualizing Basic Algebra

Mutes & Earthquakes - Bill Manhire

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures

How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days: Tips and Tricks from 4 Grad Students Who Made Over 50 Games in 1 Semester

The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers

Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction

Studying Cooperation and Conflict Between Authors with History Flow Visualizations

Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving

Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments

The Limits to Generalism

Contentious » The Accidental Communicator

How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition

NERO

Big Ball of Mud

Everything I Learned at MIT

'Right Brain' or 'Left Brain' - Myth Or Reality?

Too much knowledge can be bad for some types of memory, study finds

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Xanadu: The Conversation of the Digital Text

Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?

Learning Networks

The power of narrative : transcending disciplines

digital natives (complete-ish)