[Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anti-intellectualism

[Arthur]

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> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Kirby Urner
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:17 PM
> To: 'Scott David Daniels'; edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anti-
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> CS needs better movies, visualizations/animations, is the long and short
> of
> it -- of Knuth's 256-cylinder engine's internals along with the rest of it
> (roar!).

You'd probably appreciate the recent cite on PlanetPyhton:

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" iPod edition ;)

http://pythonzweb.blogspot.com/2005/11/structure-and-interpretation-of.html

But my problem with media like movies is that they are designed as linear.
A good technical books is designed more for random access. Easy to read
those three pages again, jump forward a chapter, then back 3.  True, its
easy enough to mimic that in current forms of media, and the tech-savvy
might get all excited about the achievement of doing just that, never
feeling fully obligated to explain the advantage of their advancement over
what it is mimicking - a book.

Art



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