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I don’t like them.

I’ve ranted before about how the Web is a festering polyglot made horrific by Postel’s Law. Many, including Tim Bray, advocate more knowledge at the client end, when an error occurs in parsing the steaming pile of HTML that forms today’s Web pages. I almost fell in line […]

Scaling Automated CS Education

The success of Salman Kahn’s Academy and other instances of disruptive education, have started me thinking about how computer science education might scale. Let’s first analyze how Kahn is organizing the learning experience.

First: Have a huge collection of videos. Kahn’s library has been organically grown. Each video introduces only a single topic, through the […]