RSS

threedaymonk + education   41

Scala School
‘Scala school was started as a series of lectures at Twitter to prepare experienced engineers to be productive Scala programmers.’
programming  scala  education  tutorial 
6 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Google’s Python Class
‘this is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python.’
google  programming  python  education 
january 2012 by threedaymonk
オールカラー 名文・名句でおぼえる小学校の漢字1006字
Intended for schoolchildren. Recommended by Jake Adelstein: ‘Agreat book for learning Kanji and Japanese culture. It teaches by using proverbs, famous quotes.’
japanese  language  education 
november 2011 by threedaymonk
Natural Language Processing
‘We are offering this course on Natural Language Processing free and online to students worldwide, January - March 2012, continuing Stanford's exciting forays into large scale online instruction.’
education  nlp  linguistics  compsci 
november 2011 by threedaymonk
OpenClassroom
Free online video-based courses from Stanford.
education  compsci 
october 2011 by threedaymonk
Destroy All Software Screencasts
‘Screencasts for serious developers’.
software  education  video  screencast 
september 2011 by threedaymonk
Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza’s recommendations on books to improve Unix skills.
programming  unix  linux  reference  education 
september 2011 by threedaymonk
Machine Learning - Stanford University
‘A bold experiment in distributed education, "Machine Learning" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.’
compsci  ai  education 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
TunesViewer
‘TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access itunes-university media and podcasts in Linux.’
itunes  linux  podcast  education 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Guide to Programming in Clojure for Beginners
clojure  education  reference 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Lang-8
‘Write in the language that you are learning. Native speakers correct your writing for you. Help others learn your native language!’
languages  education  writing 
july 2010 by threedaymonk
Goodbye Becta – and Good Riddance
‘The failure to distinguish between the underlying skills and the particular programs means that many children will grow up with inflexible, rote-style learning that is exactly the opposite of what is needed in a digital society.’
becta  uk  schools  education  computing  microsoft 
may 2010 by threedaymonk
Jacob has a new computer — and a favorite shell
Three and a half year olds can use the command line!
linux  unix  cli  computer  education  children 
april 2010 by threedaymonk
Beyond the fringe - schools clamp down on students' self expression
‘Some school leaders' petty insistence on inflicting their own lack of anything resembling panache or style on to people who are experimenting with versions of who they might be smacks, to me, of horrific jealousy of youth.’
education  fashion  society 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools
A curated DVD-sized selection from Wikipedia. Excellent!
wikipedia  uk  reference  education 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
How to Design Programs
programming  education  books  ebooks  algorithms 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but only if you're right-handed)
psychology  education  science  memory 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
All Japanese All The Time Dot Com
‘This site is about how you can learn Japanese without taking classes, by having fun and doing things you enjoy—watching movies, playing video games, reading comic books—you know: fun stuff!’
japanese  language  education 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Kanji-lish
‘Kanjilish is a Firefox add-on that allows you to practice Japanese kanji while you read English (or other languages). […] It replaces the first letter of a word with a kanji of similar meaning. For example, the word read might appear as 読ead.’
japanese  language  kanji  education 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
'The opposite of science'
‘BSc courses in homeopathy are closing. Is it a victory for campaigners, or just the end of the Blair/Bush era?’
science  quackery  pseudoscience  education  health 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Beijing Mean Value Theorem
Our bridges are usually covered in graffiti if anything. One bridge in Beijing has a slightly more edifying decoration.
china  beijing  architecture  mathematics  education 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
‘But I do remember looking at my headmaster delivering a sermon, a classicist, extremely clever ... and thinking, he can't really believe all that, can he? How incredible!’
atheism  religion  science  education  evolution 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”
haskell  monad  education 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Student Punished for Having Brown Hair
In some Korean schools, ‘students with naturally brown or curly hair [must] carry ID cards proving that they have not colored or permed their hair.’
korea  society  weird  fashion  education 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Look Around You - Calcium (pilot episode) Part 1
Entertainingly misinformational parody of 80s scientific educational TV programmes.
humour  science  tv  education  uk 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Informatics 1 – Functional Programming Homepage
‘The course teaches the basics of functional programming using the language Haskell.’
fp  haskell  programming  education 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Marble Mathness
6-bit binary adder in wood. This would be an excellent pedagogical tool.
education  woodwork  video  binary 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
webdev  html  css  education 
july 2008 by threedaymonk
Liberate and disseminate
‘What I do is hack into restricted websites, download the documents I'm interested in, and […] remove the copyright statements from each page. Next I […] upload [them] to the Internet Archive[.]’
freedom  copyright  education  openaccess 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Computer Science Unplugged
education  compsci 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Bishop attacks safe sex lessons
Presumably, he feels that ignorance is a more effective protection. There's irony, too, in hearing a bishop describe something as a 'deluded theory'.
stupid  religion  sex  education  health 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Turning a Sphere Inside Out
Explains complex topology in an intuitive way. Particularly good example of pedagogy.
education  mathematics  topology  video 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
The Secret Life Of Machines
Tim Hunkin's excellent series for online viewing or download.
education  technology  video 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
CodeKata
programming  education  forlater 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
The Mnemosyne Project
Cross-platform flashcard learning tool combined with a long-term memory research project.
education  flashcards  linux  osx  windows  open-source 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Secular school barred by Whitehall
You can have a christian school, or a muslim one, or a jewish one, but you can't have a secular one. What is this, the 15th century?
stupid  uk  religion  education 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Basics of Compiler Design
Free online text.
compsci  compiler  books  programming  software  education 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
Myth: Intelligent people tend to be more religious.
‘The broad consensus of research shows that people with higher IQs tend to be less religious, not more so.’
atheism  religion  education 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Project Euler
‘A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.’
algorithms  compsci  programming  education 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures
‘These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees.’
algorithms  compsci  computing  video  programming  education 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
How I Learned French in One Year || kuro5hin.org
education  languages 
december 2004 by threedaymonk

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: