Lego League The Successor To BASIC Education?
When I was a kid, none of my classroom teachers did much to help me learn how to think clearly. Playing at programming in BASIC did. It was an accessible programming language, but complex enough that I...
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My customer service interaction with “Sarah”, a computer program that is supposed to be cleverly programmed to deliver me appropriate answers to my questions about PayPal: “You: Sarah, the $400 I was...
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Middle School Kids: Stuck in a Home School Rut? Try a bit of Code.Org
Every day, it seems more and more kids in the crucial middle school years are in the middle of a home schooling situation. Are you one of those kids? Maybe it’s because your parents are so zealous that...
View ArticleThe Loneliness Behind The Bots
Bot.me is a new kind of social media web site – social media for bots. Currently under development, Bot.me will be a web site on which people can set up bots to interact socially with other people’s...
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