So, today there was a lot of lectures. About 11 or so hours of lectures. And since I'm not uber maths person, nor uber programming person, nor super gaming person, I didn't pick up a lot to share. The best part of the lectures today was doing some super basic programming and instruction in Mathematica, I was stoked to follow it all, and get a vague idea of how this funny cody stuff can actually DO anything.
Cool though it is, and potential though it has, I remain dedicated to my GeoGeek programs (ArcGIS and QGis) where you can see your data in a form that makes sense in my little spatial mind. People who can actually work in such a theoretical space all the time, to me they deserve all kinds of credit.
You can see below some of the basic stuff I was doing, and possibly see why it's a bit challenging to blog about.
Cool though it is, and potential though it has, I remain dedicated to my GeoGeek programs (ArcGIS and QGis) where you can see your data in a form that makes sense in my little spatial mind. People who can actually work in such a theoretical space all the time, to me they deserve all kinds of credit.
You can see below some of the basic stuff I was doing, and possibly see why it's a bit challenging to blog about.
One of the interesting things is the challenge that teaching coding to people who've had no exposure to coding. There were some arguments floated that it should work in the same part of the brain that processes language (being as computer coding is referred to as languages) however in my limited experience this isn't the case. Kids I know who have big challenges with language (particularly dyslexia) are coding ninjas and coding ninjas are pretty rarely linguistic ninjas.
So something cool is going on there. It's a whole different way of thinking, that involves breaking thoughts and ideas down quite differently to how we would do naturally.
Below are some cool things that we've been playing with, they're pretty, though I'm yet to appreciate them for any deeper reason yet.
Next up, I'll start chatting about the project I'm going to be working on at the school, it's looking pretty awesome!
So something cool is going on there. It's a whole different way of thinking, that involves breaking thoughts and ideas down quite differently to how we would do naturally.
Below are some cool things that we've been playing with, they're pretty, though I'm yet to appreciate them for any deeper reason yet.
Next up, I'll start chatting about the project I'm going to be working on at the school, it's looking pretty awesome!