Seems like I spent all my time last week doing last minute tasks before school starts. Getting cars inspected and reregistered for example. And a haircut that my wife insisted, correctly, was overdue. Teachers at my school report back tomorrow. I’ll see students on Wednesday! I spent hardly any time on line last week. That showed in a shortage of my own posts last week and a brief set of links today.
Favorite quote found on Facebook this week. “Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” -- Louis Srygley
Ray Chambers has a nice blog post about Multi-Dimensional Data Structure – Example
Mike Zamansky wrote over the weekend about the crew (the teachers) of his summer CS program. The Crew
One problem we have getting more computer science in schools is reports like this. Ofcom: six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults via @guardian Even if we agreed (which I do not) that six-year olds understand digital technology better than adults that is not the same as agreeing that they know enough about technology. Ever CS and ICT teacher I talk to has stories of digital technology knowledge that is just a thin veneer
Someone sent me to a link to an interesting infographic and set of information about The Raspberry Pi: The Tiny Computer That Could
Love the quote but sometimes even with requirements and design it still feels like programming is teh art of adding bugs to an empty text file :-)
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