Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
I've known (and written about) MIT's OpenCourseWare project for a while but never gone through any of the courses. I've found the first one I want to work through on Data Wrangling's outstanding Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering page. One of the courses in the ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I'm proud to report that the Chicago Lisp group is experiencing monthly membership growth of over 50%! If my math is correct, by this time next year we should have close to 2500 members. That should complicate venue planning :).
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
The state of Illinois has a publicly funded boarding high school for exceptional students called the Illinois Math and Science Academy. I'm the kind of person that would have benefited greatly from a special advanced curriculum and the resources this school has - I was in the International ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
This has been in my writing queue for over a month. As part of my resolution to write more, I thought the easiest place to start would be to flesh out the ideas that I've already scribbled down.
It doesn't take an economics professor or a petroleum geologist to know that ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
(note: inspired by this post at SecretGeek)
(note #2: SecretGeek found this fantastic post by the greatly missed Kathy Sierra)
Anyone who spends 5 minutes reading technology news sites knows that there is FAR too much for any one person to learn (there's almost too much for one person to be aware ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
No sooner do I post my review of some of the shortcomings of MIT's OpenCourseWare program, and today I see an article that Yale is providing full video courses online! No, I'm not nearly as powerful as I sound. They are starting out with 7 of their most popular classes ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I was giddy with excitement when I first read about MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. All of MIT's classes online, world class knowledge free for the taking, a "Good Will Hunting" starter kit? This was right about the time that I embarked on my current quest of saw-sharpening, professional development, ...
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