I see this problem continually in the first years I TA - they're so overwhelmed by syntax they don't know how to start to write the program. VB (in Excel) is especially mean about this, as if a line of code won't compile it won't let you go to the next one. So, having given the ...
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Thinking Like a Programmer
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An Introduction to Processing
Find the slides for this below. If you're interested, there will be a session tonight in Wave at 7pm, but there will be another one later this week as well. As ever - feedback welcome! An Introduction to Processing View more presentations from Cate Huston.
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Productivity for Minions
Google this, there's nothing useful. Someone needs to write a book on this! I'd buy it, would you? If not, hopefully it's because you're not a minion. Grad students are basically minions. I am the minion of my supervisor (luckily he's nice), the minion of any prof whose course I take (to a lesser extent) and the ...
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The Refactoring
Lately I've been working on something that I'm calling The Refactoring. Not that long ago, I wrote about my Twitter Conversation Networks (read the rationale behind them) and I was blown away by the popularity and the amazing feedback that I got. So I tried to incorporate it all in. Here's the thing, though, it was an ...
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Tweet Cloud
Lots of people seemed to be making these the other day, they're kinda cute. You can get one here if you want: warning it uses OAuth and automatically sends out a Tweet, which I hate. I also heard something about unsolicited DM's, but if you're concerned about that all you need to do after you've made ...
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On The Spot
Tonight I went to Students and Startups at The Code Factory. It was really good, although I was nervous at first because we were doing these building challenges, which I worry I suck at. In the end it was OK - we didn't win, but I don't think anyone else had much more of a ...
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Focusing on Action
Yesterday I wrote a post about something that's really been frustrating me - the fact that WISE may well run out of money in January. I wondered if it was too negative, and I reread it several times and debated about whether to post it... and eventually decided to. Here's the thing - I can't not ...
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