Hi Maneesh, Thanks a lot for this! Just distributed it over the team and comments are great :)
Best regards, Dejan On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, maneesh varshney <mvarsh...@gmail.com>wrote: > For your reading pleasure! > > PDF 3.3MB uploaded at (the mailing list has a cap of 1MB attachments): > > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-zw6KHOtbT4MmRkZWJjYzEtYjI3Ni00NTFjLWE0OGItYTU5OGMxYjc0N2M1 > > > Appreciate if you can spare some time to peruse this little experiment of > mine to use Comics as a medium to explain computer science topics. This > particular issue explains the protocols and internals of HDFS. > > I am eager to hear your opinions on the usefulness of this visual medium to > teach complex protocols and algorithms. > > [My personal motivations: I have always found text descriptions to be too > verbose as lot of effort is spent putting the concepts in proper time-space > context (which can be easily avoided in a visual medium); sequence diagrams > are unwieldy for non-trivial protocols, and they do not explain concepts; > and finally, animations/videos happen "too fast" and do not offer > self-paced learning experience.] > > All forms of criticisms, comments (and encouragements) welcome :) > > Thanks > Maneesh >
