User:GeoffmTurner
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Background
[edit]- The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures....
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.- Fred Brooks (1975) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Page 7
Teaching kids to program a computer
[edit]- Snakify python programming
- Project Spark (aka MS-Minecraft?)
- Minecraft
- Scratch (programming language)
- Raspberry pi especially: learning-to-program-with-code-academy
- Lego mindstorms
- Light bot 4 years+
Learning about C# via wikibooks, wikiversity, wikipedia
[edit]wikibooks: Wikibooks:C Sharp Programming
* w:.NET_Framework * w:C Sharp (programming language)
wikiversity:nothing useful found on C#
wikibooks watchlist - [1]
Contributions
[edit]Add ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered
Rick-rolled in code - to "In popular culture" section of Rick rolling.
Bee Sober
[edit]Bee Sober Manchester open water Easter swim, 2024.
brexit- immigration unplanned surges x16 in 10 yrs, Boston
[edit]Causes of the vote in favour of Brexit UK planning system operated on census figures to predict and build schools, hospitals, etc. Unrestricted immigration gave planners no way to uphold British values of a contented population, with services matching local needs.