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Citations amaze me

By matt, on April 28th, 2003%

I seem to have been cited by a French weblog (http://rcxdroide.ouvaton.org/) about the LEGO Mindstorm.

Not only that, but they made an incredibly cool diagram of TeamStorms in the process. And the article closes with:

Dans nos prochains articles, nous entrerons dans le détail de cette approche révolutionnaire qu’est la pédagogie TeamStorms.

this translates (roughly; I’m taking liberty . . . → Read More: Citations amaze me

Think think think…

By matt, on April 24th, 2003%

Pete (former CS-ED.org participant, homepage) has made me think. The post that inspired today’s post is here.

I know he is busy, and had a feeling since SIGCSE that he might drop his blog for a while (you know you’ll be back!). That’s cool. No worries there, no hard feelings of any sort. But on his . . . → Read More: Think think think…

The War as seen from India

By matt, on April 14th, 2003%

Today’s guest post is by Joel Lee, a dear friend and classmate from my time at Kenyon. He has spent much of his time since graduation engaged in human rights work in India. This note hit my inbox on April 6th, 2003, and is reproduced here with Joel’s permission.

Yesterday, on the banks of the sacred Ganges . . . → Read More: The War as seen from India

Off to PPIG!

By matt, on April 7th, 2003%

Today I’m off to PPIG. There’s some good comments and whatnot laying around in the last few day’s posts; I’ll get to those this weekend, most likely.

When I get back, I’ll try and get PDFs of both last week’s presentation and this week’s online… oy! And there’s so much else that needs to . . . → Read More: Off to PPIG!

Keeping it real

By matt, on April 4th, 2003%

Peter demonstrates the whole point of having a community of CS bloggers: to keep each-other honest with respect to our research and work.

For example, when I said in an email that the Talking Heads were BritPop, he pointed out I was completely screwed up, and had no idea what I was talking about. This is . . . → Read More: Keeping it real

I do not like Perl.

By matt, on April 4th, 2003%

I just wanted to point out that I grow more and more tired of Perl over time. I think it is the complete lack of any reasonable data structures. And the requirement that you explicitly declare variables to be lexically scoped. And … and the absolute horror of things like

${@{$$hash->{‘foo}}}}

that give me the screaming heebie-jeebies. I . . . → Read More: I do not like Perl.

The Busy Educator’s Guide to Blogging

By matt, on April 3rd, 2003%

This post has two purposes:

Do I have any “readers?”I know one or two people poke their head in the door to this blog. Do I have any readers in the educational realm?
Lay down a marker for myself.Clearly, this needs to be written.

I pinged the other participants on CS-ED.org today, to see what was up. This was . . . → Read More: The Busy Educator’s Guide to Blogging

What to say?

By matt, on April 3rd, 2003%

I’ve had a lot of days where I’ve thought of things I could drop to the blog, but just haven’t been up to doing it.

Of course, at this moment I forget what I was going to say.

I need to clean my desk, I need to make a plan for the next few months (they’re broken up . . . → Read More: What to say?

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