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Project Keyboard: Prototype
Of late, I’ve really been in the mood to make things! The Maker movement and all of the people in it have really jazzed me up, and I see around me tons of opportunity to make, modify, customize and take-apart things. And one of those things I saw was my keyboard. My new ergonomic one, to be more accurate. I wanted to paint the shit out of it, maybe ( Read more... ) -
Making a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
LiveJournal Tags: recipe,grilled cheese,delicious
Michelle, I am appalled that you can't make yourself a grilled cheese sandwich. Even I can make one. So I'm going to show you how.
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PicBlog?
Rather than explain some of the misc things that've been goin' on over here at the boy-cave, here are some pictures.
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On the Cognitive Effects of Learning Computer Programming
This paper had a lot of good stuff in it! The first time I read it, I didn't have any particular goal in mind, it just sounded good, and it was interesting. But this time around, I read it with the intent of applying it to my project. What the paper really helped me understand was how to construct or frame the educational goals of my project, and ( Read more... ) -
Article: Learning Recursion As a Concept and As a Programming
I'm going to start posting my thoughts on the papers I'm reading to force myself to read them closer, and to formulate coherent thoughts on them. Here's the first!
This paper was a follow-up to a previous paper by Anzai and Uesato which found that 14-year-olds were better able to solve ( Read more... ) -
My matting (aka greenscreen business)
I know this is really bush league, as I am just in an undergraduate intro to computer graphics class, but, dammit, I worked hard on this assignment. Basically we had to program a matting or green-screening program. The idea is really easy, you know, just take out all of the green of a picture and slap it on the background. The math is a little ( Read more... ) -
Pea and Kurland sez
A good quote from a paper that I'm reading right now:
It is said that children will acquire powerfully general higher cognitive skills such as planning abilites, problem-solving heuristics, and reflectiveness on the revisionary character of the problem solving process itself. This belief, although new in its application to this domain, is an old ( Read more... )