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I just moved to Kampen, so if you can get a Zwolle thing going, I'm game

I'd not worry too much about picking a major yet. Or rather, students typically need a couple of years in undergrad to figure out what exactly it is that they want, what motivates …

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Why not compliment them with a job well done? Add some details in your compliment that shows you've read their proposal.

Is it? It'll take a while for fertilizer and sun placement to take visually effect, and there's risk that short term effects aren't indicative of long term effects. How can you ver…

I am not so sure. I've ran 98 on bad hardware, and it crashed regularly. So much so, that I installed linux on it already in 1998, and that was much more stable. It only crashed no…

Of course, hackernews or the font it uses (?), doesn't seem to support the bold and italics Unicode symbols. Although it does seem to support the supperscript ones.

The odd thing is, you can do quite some bold/italics/superscript in Unicode nowadays. Because, at least from the ASCII letter range, they have been used in symbolic ways in Mathema…

In my experience, once teachers retire or move on, or a course gets mothballed, it's only a matter of time for course websites disappear or become non-functional. If the course web…

I did follow a curriculum set by Dijkstra's students. In the first trimester, we learned to program in Pascal, so we knew what programming was. The next two programming courses, in…

And in some very flat countries, those landfillhils become nice recreational landscape features, for example, the "Col du VAM"¹ in Drenthe, the Netherlands. ¹ https://www.drenthe.n…

Besides, who knows how long theonion.com will stay up. Or keeps giving access to all old articles? After all, they've just been bought. Usually this results in changes, despite new…

These aren't excuses, but observations. I've taught in classes of 12 and of 32, the differences in students' behavior, and in reaction my own was huge. Similarly, I've taught class…

I wrote a short chapter about the path from ALGOL 60 to ALGOL 68: https://heerdebeer.org/ALGOL/succession.html . Wirths role in the division in working group working on the success…

It starts with the name "human resources ". All HR departments I worked with treated employees as resources rather than humans. Bureaucracy all the way, with a thin veneer of human…

I agree. And having to re-evaluate and improve your own mental models or local theories is part of learning anyway. That's not going away with these changes. But I think with these…

Yes! The easier it is to get started with a language, the easier it is to learn and teach. Rather than focusing on (fighting) tools, you can focus on developing understanding of th…

In my experience teaching introductory programming with Java, the problem is very real. For beginning programmers, making sense of the first Java program(s) results too often in mi…

Worse, if stapling at the reception now takes significant more time than stapling before, that's costly too. Particularly when the stapler is in use when you need it, or someone bo…

No, but they might like the sort of projects the organization does with respect to complexity, or that they mostly serve governmental buildings, or that they work in the community …

True, but among the organizations that have work and money you can do to get the money, some seem to have aims or products or work in domains that align better with your views on t…

I wonder, wouldn't it be better to focus on fine motor skills in (primary) education rather than penmanship? I mean, penmanship is becoming an anachronistic skill, and children see…

Fountain. Although, I've used the dip pen too and that was even more of an hassle to use cleanly as a child.

Yes. Before the computer, it wasn't uncommon to write by hand and have dedicated typists type your work. Or have a secretary, assistant, or significant other do it for you. At firs…

When I was young, and I had to write with a fountain pen, to write meant to situate yourself to write. A clean desk, sit at it well, have some blotting paper, and make sure the pen…