Monthly Archives: December 2008

This Book Isn’t For Every One

I love it when a book starts with a no-nonsense paragraph like this: This book isn’t for everyone. Not everyone needs to program computers. There is a popular myth that if you aren’t “computer literate,” whatever that means, then you’ll

Posted in Learning, Programming

A Couple of Experiments in Blended Learning

I have been experimenting with blended learning since early 2008. The first experiment was with a  batch of interns and the second is a batch of final year students in a software institute. Both the batches are trained using Problem

Posted in Learning, teaching

LearnNet: Solving the Meta Problem

I worked on a presentation for The Program For The Future. I did not get to present it due to some technical difficulties. This initiative is inspired by several ideas we were working on with Doug. Will be happy to

Posted in Ideas, imorph

Program For The Future – InfoStream

Program for the Future was fun. We set up an InfoStream, thanks to Yahoo Pipes and my hard working colleague, in a few hours. We combined, filtered feeds from Twitter, del.icio.us, Flickr and YouTube. I know it can be improved.

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Posted in Ideas

Program For The Future

Over the next few days, I will be blogging about Program For the Future Conference. Since the essence of the event is Collective Intelligence, I would love to have many of you follow it and share your ideas. I will

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Posted in Ideas

ThinkLog: Simplicity

One of my friends shared this wonderful link about Simplicity on his Facebook profile. Here are the ten laws of simplicity by John Maeda. Reduce – The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction Organize – Organization makes

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Posted in Ideas, Inspiration
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