For example, I don't buy that it's an either/or situation. You seem
to think a Klein-reading Euclid-drawing subgenius, properly suspicious
of Bucky (maybe armed with a few Bucky jokes) can't suddenly jump up
and run over to an Alice workstation, there to play with cute skiing
bunnies and other
kirby urner wrote:
For example, I don't buy that it's an either/or situation. You seem
to think a Klein-reading Euclid-drawing subgenius, properly suspicious
of Bucky (maybe armed with a few Bucky jokes) can't suddenly jump up
and run over to an Alice workstation, there to play with cute skiing
CS and hard science and Alice being mentioned as an alternative.
Willamette University is offering an art major centered around
computers. For a lot of kids, the big question is: how do I get a
job making Shrek type movies or with Industrial Light and Magic. They
hear (correctly) that it
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From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:56 am
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The end is near :)
CS and hard science and Alice being mentioned as an alternative.
Willamette University is offering an art major centered around
computers.
So you argree that Alice is overreaching and out-of-line with a statement like
Alice is not big on my radar. It's not even a Python project. When
it comes to protecting the integrity of CS from watering down, I look
to people stronger than you to fight the dumbing down influences.
I think
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From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The end is near :)
So you argree that Alice is overreaching and out-of-line with a
statement like
Alice is not big on my radar.
Glad to hear it.
It's not
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From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The end is near :)
Are comments by me, here going to influence outcomes.
Probably not. Worth a shot? What's to lose.
Let some people go with Alice if they
I look to to me less ungenerous than you look to me.
Must be just the point of view.
Art
Anyway, PyGeo is online, free, downloadable, and kids grooving on it
(might be several) will have the power themselves to figure the
redistro angle, via apt-get or whatever. It's what they know. You,
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From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alice is not big on my radar.
Glad to hear it.
It's not even a Python project.
It is brought up here and now specifically in the context of it having been
noted
at U of Mich as competition to and with a Python project,
