[Edu-sig] Another Class / Instance metaphor

[Kirby Urner]

Twas pointed out to me off list that just about all the industrialized
nations have this same strip mall look and feel, the same franchises
everywhere.  So where do Americans get off thinking it expresses their
culture in particular?

I think USAers are uniquely prone to identify all that "lo glo" of neon lit
freeway signs ('Anywhere, USA' below) as "American" because they recognize
the lifestyle as what they celebrated post WW2 and evangelized during an
expansionist era, with one of the biggest McDonald's in Guam.

But of course Ben & Jerry's is a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever and
Budweiser is owned by a Belgium-based company.  Globalization means i18n
i.e. customizing one's image to meet local community wants and needs (or to
develop them where necessary :-D).

http://listverse.com/2008/10/19/top-10-american-icons-that-are-not-american/

Partly why I advocate using the franchise model to teach class / instance
in OO is I'm literally interested in applying Python in the world of burger
flippers, in part to rescue these low paid workers from dead end jobs, but
also to inspire a few to take their emerging systems analysis skills on a
deep dive into a career in whatever company's management.

As they say on Twitter, for a CEO of today to admit not knowing about IT,
is like admitting knowing nothing of Finance.  Running a fast food chain is
definitely a job for software engineering, even if some people prefer
working in bombs over food (armaments being the USA's hallmark export, fast
food much lower on the food chain).

Kirby



On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:28 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:20 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
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>> I'm finding a useful metaphor that resonates with my students is the fast
>> food franchise, or really and chain store, petrol station chain or whatever.
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> sentence = sentence.replace("and chain", "any chain")
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> Here's the illustration to go with the previous post:
> https://flic.kr/p/owivJq   (Anywhere, USA)
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> Kirby
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