[FRIAM] Fwd: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford Online
I've read a book or two by Devlin in the past, mainly for finding the book my family might enjoy (Bob especially). The books were pretty good. He now has a MOOC, based on a book I haven't read Introduction to Mathematical Thinking http://online.stanford.edu/courses/mathematical-thinking-winter-2014 Do any of us have experience with either the book or classes which used it? Anyone taking the class? -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked
CryptoCards Anything like a SecurID? From Kevin Mitnick's autobiography excerptedhttp://books.google.com/books?id=p-nRxITKc34Con Google Books: [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked
On 12/18/13, 11:13 AM, Arlo Barnes wrote: CryptoCards Anything like a SecurID? Organizations that use SecurID may prepend or append a password to a token provided by a device. The token changes every few seconds. CryptoCards (the brand) are different in that the password is set when the device is issued. That way there is less opportunity to intercept the password part. One plus of SecurID is that they are small enough to carry on a keyring. CryptoCards are like thick credit cards -- too thick to put in a wallet, really. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups
More from the pencil code author: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coffeescript/EFwDMClKKh0 .. about the effectiveness of Blockly .. like StarLogo TNG. So here's the question: if I learn in blockly-style programming, will it impede the jump to text based programming? Steve tells me that the super computer challenge uses TNG for the younger students, and text based NetLogo for older students. Does anyone have an opinion or experience, especially on whether block programming is useful at all and if it is, is the transition difficult? -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford Online
Heres another interesting MOOC. Any takers? https://www.coursera.org/course/artificialvision Cody Smith On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I've read a book or two by Devlin in the past, mainly for finding the book my family might enjoy (Bob especially). The books were pretty good. He now has a MOOC, based on a book I haven't read Introduction to Mathematical Thinking http://online.stanford.edu/courses/mathematical-thinking-winter-2014 Do any of us have experience with either the book or classes which used it? Anyone taking the class? -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups
I am a fan of block based programming languages for younger students. And yes
I think the transition from TNG to Netlogo is pretty straightforward and
painless…
The biggest advantage I see in block languages, and this may seem minor but I
can tell you from experience it isn’t, block based languages let you program
before you are a consistent speller because it doesn’t matter how you spell
W0lF or RaBbit, once you have declared the variable or procedure new blocks
are created for you with that spelling…
Helps with understanding program flow as well as blocks clearly belong to other
blocks in a way that {} and () (or indenting) just don’t.
With TNG there is a middle place where once you are proficient with the
language you can begin to type the blocks into existence which is a lot faster
than searching through ‘drawers’ of blocks.
—joshua
On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
More from the pencil code author:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coffeescript/EFwDMClKKh0
.. about the effectiveness of Blockly .. like StarLogo TNG.
So here's the question: if I learn in blockly-style programming, will it
impede the jump to text based programming?
Steve tells me that the super computer challenge uses TNG for the younger
students, and text based NetLogo for older students. Does anyone have an
opinion or experience, especially on whether block programming is useful at
all and if it is, is the transition difficult?
-- Owen
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups
Agree with what Josh has said; it is nice to separate the concepts from technique (like readability) while also beginning to teach ideas like giving variables and functions descriptive rather than throwaway names. Also, I think the process of reëxamining what you have experienced so far that has been presented as 'programming' is enough to ensure that you will not confuse the differences between, say, Netlogo and TNG. That is to say, it may be a problem to remember whether a mental rule for a parenthesis or the word 'if' or whatever belongs to the model you made in your head when you learned Lisp versus when you learned Python versus Javascript and so on, but typing and connecting blocks is different enough so that seeing one or the other will unavoidably remind you of what it was like to program in that context (if that makes sense). The downside to block-like languages is that, because the underlying code is more complex than your average text language interpreter, sometimes it glitches or behaves unexpectedly - of course, you get this in typed language, but it is when you mistyped something or your model of how you expected something to work turns out to be inaccurate or imprecise. But then, I am basing a lot of this upon watching other people rather than my own experience. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
