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I think it's important to distinguish user groups. No solution is best for all of them. For scientists or data analysts, jupyter notebooks are a great choice since they mirror the …

I'm a co-founder of Trinket and thought I'd explain why we chose Skulpt. Client-side execution lets you do visual things that would be slow and complicated (maybe practically impos…

I can second this sentiment. Meredydd and Albert Jan have made a good deal of Skulpt's most technically interesting features (which in turn enable a more seamless user experience).…

I'm a big fan of datacamp. You should definitely give this a try. It would be great to expand the reach of your lessons without the infrastructure overhead of every user hitting yo…

I second pretty much everything in here.In my meeting we were essentially working together grooming a github issue- I could imagine that issue being addable as a tab behind or inst…

we (your users) are your test suite :) Nicely done- looking forward to the next iteration

I'd say yes. Another Cathedral bazzar is Meteor. Open source, but with a relatively centralized organization.

Wow! Amazing progress. Congrats Joyce & crew.

Sounds like your relative had an above-median learning rate. But a median 10 year old could likely learn a new language to fluency in even less time.

I'm happy to wade into that debate, because I think it's relevant. When this article first came out there were comments near the top questioning the relevance of this type of inqui…

Startups, and startup founders as a whole are rare phenomena. Don't read anything more into the analogies than that. Thanks, though, for the word of caution.

if code wasn't a human language we'd write it in binary, straight to disk.

Interesting that you've found language study techniques useful. I also believe we should teach code like we teach other languages: http://blog.trinket.io/code-and-language/

I believe they're roughly synonymous, yes. The processes of aging and aculturation both involve an ossification of our ideas and concepts that make learning new ones comparatively …

Agreed. A focus on gender is warranted, but not to the exclusion of other demographics. There are likely a great many large startups waiting to be built in each under-represented d…

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=language+learning+rates+... It's well documented that the median language-learning speed/ability of younger people is greater than that of older…

In the beginning there was the command line (1999) is the best I know http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-Comm... Happy to hear suggestions of others- I haven't…

Interesting take, and I think I see your point with that clarification of your view of stages of thought. I don't share that concept of the progression of ideas, nor do I feel the …

I'd say human language is the superset of artificial language and natural language. Though the artifical/natural labels are a poor fit. Experience is a big factor, but I think ther…