kkshin

The introduction programming courses (for non majors) use Alice and I think that without having a strong professor to tie the visual to real programming together, the connection is lost on students.

For example, my girlfriend took the intro course and did pretty well but they moved on to real Java and object oriented programming she felt like she had wasted 1/4th of the semester on the visual programming aspect, and would have much rather just learned the normal way.

I think a better way to approach this is to design labs that are both easy, educational, and satisfying to the student. This isn't that hard to do with the numerous graphical libraries that simplify programming for the student.

This is the first startup school that I didn't get into =/

My coworker, who I told to apply since we're thinking of branching off to our own thing, got in and he's never even heard of yCombinator.

At least it will be on justin.tv!

The generated password does not work for me.

Does this mean that all future Spring devices will use Google for search or just Sprint devices on the ClearWire network?

For better or for worse, the modern connotation of an intellectual is heavily slanted towards the matters of humanities and arts. I've had the pleasure of studying under some great computer scientists, but unfortunately, although geniuses in their field, very few of them could be considered an "intellectual" in the current form of its meaning.

I think all companies should do the same in any acquisition, and especially in ones such as this where you are basically buying the user base and not necessarily the technology/people.

In the US there is a royalty fee paid for each blank cd that is labeled for "music" use. Also manufacturers for certain recording devices pay royalties whose cost is passed on to the consumer. Every time you buy a VCR/Audio Tape Player/DVR(?) you're probably implicitly paying the RIAA some money.

If you really think about it from their position, it sorta makes sense. If they're already receiving payments for some devices that facilitate recording, then in their minds they should get payments for copying over a network as well. Interestingly enough, I believe "computer peripherals" are excempt from this tax/levy/royalty.