Why not just use gobby[1]?
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It is a beautiful video. I also recommend to everyone who's interested in high quality material about OOP to read [1].
[1] Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu http://claritycomputing.com/book_sod.html
For teaching materials, try cnx
http://cnx.org/content/col10615/latest/
I would try out something in the LOGO philosophy also (scratch, etoys and so forth). The web is flowing with rich material, so get a shovel and dig up.
I Hope you find some gems.
One thing that I would love that someone else had shown to me when I has in high school is what does it mean to learn, and how to learn. These are some resources that really helped me understand the value of true learning [1][2][3]
What I would recommend is that you wait some years to get into university/college. You really have no reason to rush, and the whole experience, if you later choose to live it, could be much more enjoyed if more maturity. Go travel, study programming by yourself or doing projects, study languages in other countries, take some telecommuting jobs, take some risks, and above all else, learn what does it mean to learn.
[1] http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/560
[2] http://www.papert.org/works.html
[3] http://ournature.org/~novembre/illich/1970_deschooling.html
I'm not saying that this is your case, but usually when this happens it is because the other person is looking at things that you are not.
Reminds me of a time when I heard Robert Sapolsky saying that he did not handle his own stress in a good way. I'm pretty sure he handles it better than me and most people, but he has the knowledge that he is just scratching the surface.
Looks also like that quote from Socrates 'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.'
It's not just a political thing, this genocide was shaped by the use of current technology, and it is a hint of what could be coming in the future in my opinion.
I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS failure, for a lot of well based reasons.
Argument from ignorance. They were in the same league from the point of view of their victims.
But if you believed that doing so was somehow right (again, the "greatest good" nonsense or something), then it's OK?
I never said that. From available evidence, not one of the people you mentioned did their atrocities for the ``greatest good'', and it would not matter if that was the case, because the willingness to commit atrocities is the monstrous thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_da_Costa_e_Silva
Argentina's story is a bit more brutal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina_(1966%E2%8...
All over South America during the 60~80 there were numerous 'capitalist' brutal dictatorships.
And then there's more, such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
Never forget, what makes you a monster is not that you killed millions, but that you were willing to do it in order to maintain your power.
10 pages is enough to link the guy to socialism? really?
The rhetoric about helping the little guy is just what monsters like Lenin and Mao find it easiest to use to hoodwink the masses.
Monsters use any rhetoric they think will fit at their historic moment. This is just a red shirted example of Godwin's law.
The * Schemer books are cool too.
Squeak by Example[1], or better yet etoys[2]
How to design worlds, as already mentioned here
Alice[3], with something like [4].
Good old scratch from the logo tradition would also be cool[5].
[1] http://squeakbyexample.org/
[2] http://www.squeakland.org/
[4] http://www.aliceprogramming.net/
Check them all out and decide for yourself. All of them are very consistent and fun.
Let's plant some live mines in a large field, and simply ask him to cross it a few times, using his little tech wonder detector.
I'll bet all my possessions that he will promptly refuse, on some 'atmospheric impossibility' or some other shit.
Heck, what a bunch of chinese HR activists worth anyway? It's not like there is not a billion and a half.
\sarcasm
But that does not imply that there was not an extermination. [1]
[1] A single and not isolated example. -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupi_people#European_colonizati...
Read the rest of the reference, you'll find why/how LSD became associated with the counter-culture, and then became illegal because of that. My take is that LSD, when administered responsibly, can lead to major positive life changes for those in need.
It is a pity that it is illegal, which only increases the risk of abuse/work dosage/mixing with other stuff, but perhaps in a more civilized age...
[1] Hofmann, Albert; LSD: My Problem Child; url ->http://www.psychedelic-library.org/child4.htm
The multitude of useful apps that are already on the market and can be easily ported for maemo makes it a very strong player.
I know I'm not mainstream market, not even close, but KeePassX, Vim, Mplayer, VLC, Xmms, Abiword. Those are valuable open source projects that are already there for the maemo.
But then he discovered that every morning what he saw in all that luxury was a high place to jump."
Never let your work consume you. Never let anything consume you, because then, well, there would not be a you to enjoy anything afterwards.
It's beautiful, clean and comes with with Debian based distro, Maemo.
My opinions about apple were never positive, probably because I'm only 25 and did not program in the 80's. I've only saw apple as a manufacturer of shiny, well designed rich boy toys, but that is probably because I live in Brazil, where only rich people have it and they think they are 'computer people' because of it.
I was always more influenced by the open source community, and apple's record is far from shiny on that aspect.
My 2 cents.
You don't ask why a snake bites you, because it is its nature to do so.
low threshold and no ceiling
For that they are different, and for that they are interesting.