TED Community ยป Simon Forman

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  • A reply on Conversation: A simple metaphor that makes it easy to teach the essentials of programming.

    Feb 3 2013: Then I'm not surprised you didn't get anything from this little metaphor. :) With that background it really doesn't hold anything for you I would imagine.

  • A reply on Conversation: A simple metaphor that makes it easy to teach the essentials of programming.

    Feb 3 2013: Ah, yes, the blog post I linked to is sort of like a simple script for someone who knows programming to use with someone who doesn't. It is not meant as a stand-alone introduction in and of itself.

    Did you try out the "live" version: http://calroc.github.com/aum-gravity/Henry.html ?

    Also, are you a programmer yourself?

    I should also mention that, once a person gets the basic idea, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't go on to learn other programming systems and languages. I just see Xerblin as one particular form of "ABC's" of programming, but not neccessarily the only one.

  • A reply on Conversation: A simple metaphor that makes it easy to teach the essentials of programming.

    Feb 3 2013: How did it not speak to you?
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    A comment on Talk: Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

    Feb 2 2013: I'm working on something that could be considered a minimal Scratch. It's a sort of programmable metaphor that can be embedded in any other computer system. I've implemented versions in Python and Javascript and created a single-page web demo. So far it has been very easy to teach people how to create new "programs" similar to the Scratch pluggable objects within an hour or so.

    http://calroc.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-teach-anyone-to-program-using.html
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    A comment on Talk: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth

    Jan 17 2009: Nice demo, but I'm disappointed that he didn't mention Jef Raskin's "Zooming User Interface". Seadragon seems like a high performance subset of ZUI.

    Photosynth is cute. I wonder how it could be applied to medical imaging.

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