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Miracle Meditation
For the past month I've been teaching a very special meditation at my live lectures. It is my honor to share this Kundalini Meditation to Expand into Intuitive Knowing.
I suggest you practice this meditation for the next 40-days.
Here's the breakdown of the Meditation to Expand into Intuitive Knowing (as taught by Yogi Bhajan.)
Mantra: Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad music here.
Posture: Sit with the legs crossed in Easy Pose. Grasp the knees firmly, keeping the elbows straight and the chest lightly lifted. The chin is pulled in gently, to align the skull with the rest of the spine.
Practice: Chant the mantra in a steady rhythm with your eyes closed and focused on the brow point. On "Ek", pull in the Navel Point. On "Kar", release it. On "Sat Gur", pull in the entire abdominal region, especially the diaphragm, lifting everything up toward the ribs and back toward the spine. On "Prasad", release it. Continue to contract your abdomin and release as you chant the mantra. If the contracting is uncomfortable you can chant the mantra with a long deep breath. Chant the mantra with powerful intention and in a sacred space because it has the power to amplify your projection. This meditation deepens your intuition and heightens your sense of inner knowing.
Time: Begin with a 3-minute practice, gradually increasing to 22 minutes. The maximum length of the meditation is 62 minutes.
Eyes: The eyes are closed or 1/10th open.
IMPORTANT NOTES ON THE MANTRA: "This mantra is the only Kundalini mantra that comes with a warning. This is such a powerful and creative mantra that you must watch your thoughts and actions after you chant it. You will be in such a state of manifestation, that your thoughts will accelerate into being. Luckily, the energy within the mantra itself will help you switch your thoughts to the positive. It takes your own negative thought, stops it in its tracks and reverses it into positivity. A thought rides into your consciousness to be processed with Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad, and comes out pure with, Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar." – Spirit Voyage
Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad, Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar
(Translation: There is one Creator of all Creation. All is a blessing of the One Creator. This realization comes through Guru's Grace.)
Practice mantra for 40-days. Sing it with powerful intentions and enjoy the release of negative thoughts. Feel the blessings.
Music: Listen to this song and sing along with the mantra.
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Tens of thousands of people have read May Cause Miracles to date. This movement of miracle workers is experiencing and creating radical change. Many of my readers have posted questions about the book's 40-day practice on my Facebook page. In this video I answer some frequently asked questions about May Cause Miracles. I hope it helps guide your journey.
Plus, I have an awesome resource to support your practice. Today I'm so excited to offer the May Cause Miracles 6-week digital course based on the book. This course helps you create beautiful, radical change by adding up small but important shifts every day and every week. Each week focuses on a different chapter from the book to help you achieve miraculous results in every area of your life. You can watch the course in HD video or listen with an audio download.
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When I was at a difficult turning point in my life, I was guided to my divine teacher, Marianne Williamson (New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love). It is because of Marianne that I became a student of the metaphysical text A Course in Miracles. Her lectures and books demystified the principles of the Course so that I could apply the life-changing lessons in my own life. I am endlessly grateful for Marianne's impact on me—and the world.
In this interview Marianne shares about her experience with A Course in Miracles and offers up advice to people who are new to the text. Enjoy my conversation with Marianne Williamson.
GB: What was going on in your life when you found ACIM?
MW: I wasn't the happiest person, that's for sure. Kind of muddling through my 20's at the time. When I first saw the book, the language was way too intense for me. But when it appeared in my life a year later, I was drawn to it like to some mysterious force. Which it is, of course!
GB: For the reader who is new to ACIM, please help them understand the difference between what is real and what is an illusion.
MW: You know how sometimes you have a fight with someone and then when it's finally over, one of you says, "I love you" and the other one says, "I love you too" and maybe you hug and feel all emotional…? That's what it means. It means we have to go through all the he-said, she-said, you-said, I-said, all the craziness and arguing and triggering each other just to get to the point at the very end where there's only forgiveness and understanding and you say "I love you" and they say "I love you" too.
The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away. What happened before that was just mutual projection and hurt and anger and blame, but in the end it wasn't real. It felt real, but it was just energy…issues…illusion, really.
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality. Only God's Thoughts — or love — is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating. And that's what illusion is. Feels real, even more real than love does sometimes. But the love is who we really are.
GB: What's your process of surrendering your fears to the Holy Spirit?
MW: Pretty simple. "Dear God, I feel this or that fear, this or that anxiety, this or that anger, this or that judgment, this or that neediness, this or that whatever. Please take it from me. Amen."
GB: Is there a workbook exercise that you love the most?
MW: Into His presence would I enter now. Though Creation's gentleness is all I see runs a close second.
GB: What is your favorite prayer from ACIM?
MW: Where would You have me go? What would You have me do? What would You have me say, and to whom?
GB: Right on. That's my favorite too!
GB: How do you work miracles?
MW: By changing your mind, using it differently. Recognizing where you're thinking thoughts of fear, and replace them with thoughts of love. Simple actually, though God knows not always easy. What's hard is getting over our resistance to doing it.
GB: How can we best apply the principles of ACIM in our daily lives?
MW: By starting each morning doing the workbook. My mother taught me that if you make chile with too much cayenne pepper, all you have to do is put a raw potato in it and that will suck up all the excess hot pepper. That's how I feel about my workbook lesson each day: it helps to suck up my excess neurotic thinking.
GB: Tell us about your forthcoming course on A Return to Love.
MW: My book A RETURN TO LOVE is like "The Cliff Notes" of A COURSE IN MIRACLES. It takes the basic ideas of the Course and breaks them down into "Principles" and "Practice." Here's the idea, then here's the practical application. Here's the idea, then here's the practice.
It was mind-blowing for me reading the Course in the 1970's. And it's mind-blowing for me reading it today. When you really allow yourself to think about the ideas, and even try just a little bit to apply them in your lives, then nothing is ever really the same again. It really is a miracle. It really is.
I'll be doing a video each week for six weeks that will present a spiritual curriculum on shifting our perceptions from fear to love. There will be six live question and answer sessions during which I'll respond to questions posed by people taking the seminar. And we'll have a private online community where students will be able to share their experiences with others taking the course – and I'll play an active role here too. All videos and Q & A calls will remain available on our private course page enabling participants to review the material as often as they'd like. I think it will be fun for all of us. You can check out the details here.


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I think the vocals are what make this band so good. Just my opinion though.
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I think this is one of the weaker tracks on the album from the 3 clips I've heard, which shows how good this album will be. Can't wait!!
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Cool song, I wish the cleans were better though.
Am I missing something? Sounds exactly like their last album, which sounds generic as all hell. No variation in either of the vocals, choruses are auto-tuned and not even catchy (although trying to be), nothing special about the riffs.
It's not really bad but there's nothing unique enough about it to say it's good. I'd rather have them go back to being underproduced than overproduced.
It was written as a Youngbloods part 2, that's why it sounds the same
Acknowledging that they're rewriting the same album twice doesn't really make it okay though lol.
No, of course not.
Continuation of youngbloods. it will probably sound like Youngbloods. Isnt it funny how people complain if a band takes another direction with a new release? And when they don't, they complain it sounds just like the previous release.
Yeah man. Personally, Youngbloods was such a great record I don't mind this being Youngbloods part2
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- 2 1/2 tablespoons salt or less
- 1/4 to 12 teaspoon crushed dried red pepper flakes, optional
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I'm in the middle of a job hunt right now, and so I'm thinking about a lot of issues as they relate to questions I'm asking during interviews. How do these companies determine 'culture fit'? How do I know whether or not their culture is inclusive? Will I be taken seriously, will I be listened to?
But the question that's obviously giving me the most headaches is whether or not I'll come off sounding knowledgeable during an interview. That's natural, right?
After 15 years in this field, I still suffer a little from impostor syndrome, and nowhere does that show itself more clearly than when I need to stifle it the most - during an interview.
Classic Q&A-style tech interviews are such a challenge for me. I am not great at regurgitating facts out of the standard library documentation. That's especially true when I'm being interviewed by a man (or group of men) - there's an unfortunate dynamic there that makes me question whether or not I belong.
But you know, that's not how I use Python every day anyway. You don't really want to gauge how well someone has memorized the standard library docs. In day-to-day programming work, it's not about what you've memorized - it's about knowing what to look up, knowing what questions to ask.
What you really want to know is how they approach problems, and how well they solve them. But asking someone to write a function or debug some code doesn't work as well either. I've had tasks like that as an interviewee. They might seem simple, the kinds of problem-solving exercises that might normally only take a few minutes, but when you're being watched, knowing you're being judged and scrutinized, those simple problems can become monumental.
And that's also not a reflection of how problems get solved in the real world. In a real development environment, there's collaboration, often there's more flexible time.
What I really prefer are project-based interviews - what are sometimes called take-home assignments - where I can develop some code beforehand and then explain my decisions to an interviewer. I've had a lot of success with this type of interview - from both sides of the process. It makes the interview feel less like a pressure cooker and more like an opportunity to show you what I can actually do.
How it works:
Then on the day of the interview, spend some time going over the code and examine the decision-making that went into it.
I understand the argument that this kind of exercise takes up too much free time for the interviewee. But as said interviewee, my position is this:
As programmers (particularly in open source), we're expected to write code in our spare time to contribute to open source libraries and projects, so that we can be judged on the quality/amount of that code. We're expected to write tech blogs and contribute in all kinds of other ways. All of that is unpaid work, usually done in our free time.
But somehow a few hours writing a take-home assignment is too much time to spend? For not-the-right-job, yes, I agree that it would be too much. But for the right job? I would feel just as excited about writing that code as I would about any other open source contribution.Tweet
After nearly four years at my current company, I am looking for something new. I love my team, and I'd happily stay here longer (the challenges laid at my feet over the years have been exciting). But the business has made a decision to eliminate Python, sunsetting all the current projects by the end of this year, so I am beginning my search for a new software development opportunity.
My favorite parts of dev work: Debugging, scripting, writing APIs, writing tests, deleting code, managing releases, optimizing data stores, writing documentation
The parts I could live without: Front-end work (I'm not opposed to writing CSS and JavaScript, they're just not my favorite things).
The nuts and bolts of my software development background are in my online resume, and I've got a lot of professional recommendations on LinkedIn.
Feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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(Note: These are the slides and speaker notes from my 2016 PyGotham talk, "Young Coders (or, 'How To Teach Python To Kids')".)
This talk is for any Python programmer who's interested in passing their knowledge on to younger students. And I really do mean any Python programmer. Teaching experience is nice to have but it's not required.
If you're here, you probably already have some idea why you should teach. Coding is today's literacy, and too many students are still not being exposed to it in school. As Python developers, we have a unique opportunity to share our skills in our local communities and give kids an experience that could make a huge impact on their lives.
Do you remember that sense of wonder you felt the first time you realized what you could do with code? You could help someone else discover that same sense of excitement, and start them down the path towards a lifetime of exploration.
And organizing a class could change your life. It's a great way to introduce yourself to interacting with young students and will help you get started in teaching and public speaking.
I'm going to talk a little bit about the 'what' - the things you need to set up a class, like hardware, venues, and probably the most important thing: financing.
But where I want to spend the most time is in telling you how, and convincing you that teaching kids is easier than you think. All you really need are the desire and a little Python experience.
Why should you listen to me?
I've been involved in the Python community for about a decade now, but I actually began my professional life as a school teacher. I was only at it for a few years before I realized that I could never move out of my parents' house on that salary, so I made a change. tl;dr I've been a successful developer for a little over 15 years now. But I didn't know how much I missed working with kids until I got the chance to come back to it.
In 2013, PyCon organizers came up with this idea for a new program called Young Coders. So that year, I flew into San Jose with this curriculum that I had pieced together at the last minute. And along with Katie Cunningham and a team of enthusiastic volunteers, we taught our first one-day intro to Python for young students.
Since then I've been lucky enough to teach both kids and adults through organizations like PyLadies and DjangoGirls. Teaching has become a dual passion for me, alongside programming.
Also in the years since, Python classes for kids have sprung up all over - at regional conferences and in after-school clubs.
And Young Coders at PyCon has continued to grow every year. For the two years that PyCon was in Montreal, we had the curriculum translated into French, and a couple of developers from the community up there taught it to local school kids. Then a few months ago in Portland, we introduced a new intermediate class to go along with the original beginner class, and that was a huge success. Kids did their first real scripting, worked with APIs, built their first web sites - it was so exciting.
As glad as I am for my teaching background, it's my programming background that's made all of this possible. Any of you out there could do it just as well, you just need a few pointers to get started.
I want to keep that momentum going. I want to keep Young Coders growing beyond just a couple of classes at conferences every year. And I want to do that by convincing all of you to organize and teach classes in your own communities.
So what do you need to organize a class? (To be clear, I'm talking about a one-day workshop, so a short-term learning experience, not the long-term experience you would expect from a public school classroom.)
I'm just going to skim over this list, but at the end I'll be giving you an online resource that has very complete descriptions of each of these things.
How you decide to set up your classroom is going to depend on a lot of different factors.
But the one thing I want to recommend strongly is that you use Raspberry Pis, and there are two important reasons why.
One is consistency: It's going to be easier to teach when every student is working in the same environment. You won't have to waste time with installs, or debugging issues that are unique to a particular operating system.
The other is reinforcement: You want your students to have a programming environment that's all theirs, that they can take home, so that they can keep going when they leave your classroom.
There are also some maybe less important reasons - Raspberry Pis (or their operating system) come with a lot of software already installed. There's Idle - if you've never worked with it, Idle is a Python interpreter that has a few extra bells and whistles to make learning easier.
They also come with pygame - in the first few years of Young Coders, we'd have the kids edit constants (things like background colors or player avatar sizes) to see how they affected the games. And newer Raspberry Pis come with mcpi, a library that you can use to interact with Minecraft.
All of this means you'll be purchasing a lot of Raspberry Pis. But they're very affordable, and peripherals like keyboards and monitors can be rented for a very low cost. And as I said I'm going to give you some resources to help you figure out financing/sponsorship.
And of course you're going to want some students.
I would recommend enrolling students 12 and older. The age cutoff is often a point of contention for Young Coders classes. And it's understandable - parents want to get their kids into coding classes early, and for good reason, but sometimes it can be hard to tell if the kids are ready.
Here's the thing: Kids develop new cognitive skills as they grow. Even beginner Python requires some abstract thinking, and among childhood development researchers it's generally believed that that ability emerges at around age 12. Sometimes before, sometimes after.
Personally, I think researchers' views on that are going to begin to change as we see more kids getting into computing at earlier ages. But for now 12 is the usually agreed-upon age at which abstract thought becomes possible.
So you can put an 8- or 10-year-old in a CS classroom and they may be able to mimic what you type, but whether or not they'll comprehend it is not as certain. For those younger kids who are still in their concrete thinking phase, visual learning environments like Scratch and Turtle and Hopscotch are terrific alternatives.
(Note: Earlier in the day, the team from Codester gave a terrific talk titled 'Opening the Magic Box: Creating transitional Python libraries and IDE tools' about developing curriculum for classrooms. They spent a lot of time talking about these stages of childhood development and about what kinds of CS exposure are appropriate for different age groups. They also presented some great ideas for developing your own curriculum if you're interested in doing that. When the PyGotham videos come out, you'll want to look for that one, but in the meantime the slides are here.)
So where do you find these kids anyway?
You're going to be tempted to fill your classes with kids who are the children of other programmers you know from your local community.
But I would implore you to consider doing something different. And if you remember nothing else from this talk, remember this part.
You have this unique opportunity to impact kids who might not otherwise get much exposure to computing. Try reaching out to organizations like the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. In Austin we have a group called GirlStart that's like an after-school/summer camp program for girls who want to focus on STEM skills. Your town probably has something like that too.
So focus on diversity, focus on kids from different economic backgrounds. It might take a bit of Googling and going a little beyond your familiarity to find organizations to work with, but it'll be worth it - you could really open up new doors for some of your students.
So what soft skills do you need to teach?
You should be comfortable illustrating simple concepts. For example, when we introduce variables in the beginner class, we might describe them as bowls. A bowl can contain all kinds of different things, different values. You can put something in the bowl, then you can take that thing out and put something new in the bowl.
And you don't need to 'dumb down' or be cutesie to talk to kids. Just be clear, keep your explanations simple - they'll get it.
That said, do keep your examples relevant. The first year we taught Young Coders, as I said I brought in this curriculum that included some materials from an adult beginner class I'd helped with. I had the kids looking at a list of Beatles names - as in, the music group, John, Paul, George and Ringo - and I wanted them to use an index to choose their favorite musician.
I was, of course, greeted by blank stares. A 12-year-old does not know who the Beatles are. Some of you probably don't. So I went back to the hotel room that night and changed that to a list of colors, and that's what we've used ever since.
When it comes to teaching materials, you are always free to use the Young Coders curriculum - that's been open sourced since day one. The materials we use at PyCon were originally cobbled together from a lot of different sources, but they've been refined and tried and tested over the years and we know they work.
They're filled with lots of little 'a-ha!' moments, lots of gradual skill-building, lots of little wins along the way to keep the kids engaged.
They're formatted like a presentation - a slide deck with extensive speaker notes that you can use if you find yourself needing a hand when you're explaining concepts. We project these slides from a computer that also has Idle installed (so that we can alternate between the slides and demonstrating coding tasks).
You'll find those slides, along with some detailed classroom setup notes, in this GitHub repository. The latest version is in a folder labelled '2016' - that's been updated for Python 3. As recently as 2015, though, we were still using Python 2, so that's also available if you're interested.
Of course if you want to write your own curriculum, there are lots of books and websites to draw inspiration from. Just remember a few things:
There's a common misconception that kids come to programming classes wanting only to make games.
I've done a little work with my local chapter of CSTA (that's the Computer Science Teachers Association), and one thing I hear repeatedly is that they can't get girls from AP math to enroll in the AP computer science classes. The girls think it's only going to be about making games (and they're usually right), but they want more variety.
It's also been my experience with the classes I've taught - sure, kids want game content, but they're interested in other things too.
So show them that you can do more with Python than just making games - I promise, once they start talking to their computers with Python, they'll be no less excited.
It's go time! Day of the class! You're standing at the front! Now how do you talk to the kids?
It's not going to be like this, I promise.
Kids are nothing to be afraid of, especially in this context. In fact, getting up in front of a roomful of kids is waaaay easier than speaking to a room full of adults.
And a class like this won't come with some of the same challenges you'd have teaching a primary school class. By age 12, students are already well familiar with basic classroom comportment - they'll know how to behave and what's expected of them.
And, too, your students will be there because they WANT to be, not because it's compulsory. They're eager to learn this stuff, and they'll soak it all up. I promise.
(By the way, that is a scene from Kindergarten Cop 2, Dolph Lundgren, straight to DVD. Don't ask me how I know.)
Be collaborative. Don't just read code examples at the students. Interact with them. Ask questions, even if it's just asking them to guess what the results of an expression might be. Engage with them directly. They'll surprise you with some intelligent questions, and they might even teach you a few things.
They'll be excited to be there, but they can also lose focus quickly if you aren't mindful of the pace of the class.
Don't sweat the small details. There's only so much you can teach in a few hours, and the kids will need time beyond the classroom to work with and absorb all these new concepts.
Keep your mind on the big picture: You're teaching kids how to communicate with their computers, and that can be really huge and mind-blowing to someone who's never done any programming before.
Your students are not going to walk away with a thorough knowledge of Python. And that's fine, that shouldn't be your goal. What you are doing is planting a seed.
This is the site where you're going to find all that information I mentioned earlier. If you navigate to the 'Teach' section, you'll find details about all those physical resources, about how to get sponsorship money, where to find the kids, etc.
It's a new site, just launched a few days ago, but it's got pages and pages of teaching and organizing resources, along with an online version of the Young Coders curriculum, written in a tutorial format.
I wrote this talk as I was also writing the content for this web site, so if you read it and it all sounds a little familiar, that's why.
None of the site is that pretty - for any of it that looks nice or works well I have to give all the credit to Andrew Dupont, who did all the front end work. I am currently looking for a designer to work with to liven things up a bit. And I'm looking to port the tutorial to an iPython (or now, Jupyter) notebook, so if any of you are interested in collaborating on that, please get in touch with me.
There are going to be lots of additional resources added in the next few months - organizer tools, checklists, some things sort of similar to what DjangoGirls is using to help people organize their classes.
So if you're curious about something that you don't see up there, just ping me at @bshaurette - I'll do my best to get you an answer.Tweet
We've been putting on a Young Coders class at PyCon North America for several years now - it started in San Jose, continued in Montreal, and has morphed into something a little more challenging in Portland.
The original class is aimed at beginners. While we try to recruit kids from the local community, it's inevitable that every year we're going to get kids from the Python community, children of programmers who have already been exposed to Python in some capacity.
Last year, as we were going through the beginning material - typing math expressions and strings in Idle - I noticed one young student off on their own, writing complex functions, and I realized that we needed to offer more. For some of those kids, the beginner material was just too simple and sitting in that classroom was a waste of a day. So I spent some time in the year between conferences putting together new curriculum.
This year we offered two Young Coders classes - the beginner version we've always had, and an intermediate class for kids who already had a little Python experience.
Before I even talk about the class itself, I want to thank Taylor Meek and Andrew Dupont for stepping up and joining the teaching staff this year. You should thank them too - they were the real heroes of this year's Young Coders.
Rather than diving deeper into the intricacies of the language, my goal with the intermediate material was to teach students about the things they can do with Python. That turned out to be a good decision - the kids left with a real sense of excitement and purpose. They had something concrete, tools that they could use to go out and build interesting things.
We didn't do a lot with gaming. That wasn't my original intention, I just ran out of time and did not get much written. And I don't think I'll add much for next year. I feel like there are a lot of resources out there already, both books and web sites. I want kids to know that there are more cool things they can do with Python than just make games.
Our intermediate curriculum included:
Scripting introduced a lot of new concepts - opening/reading/writing to files, connecting to the internet and making requests, even making requests to APIs and learning about different kinds of data structures. But we walked through every line of every script step-by-step, so nothing went unexplained. And we went slowly enough that nothing was too overwhelming**.
** How to tell if a thing is overwhelming - if the kids look panicked, slow down; if they start to glaze over, you're good, just move on.
Running scripts also provided a lot of immediate gratification for the students - they could see Python doing things in real time, just by dropping in print statements to follow along at every step. They learned more about constructing Python expressions - we built on gradually more complex examples of dot notation and using class methods. And they learned a lot more about errors and how to handle them.
I want to point out here that I don't expect students will retain everything we cover in these classes. But that's okay - they get a little taste of a lot of things, they'll remember enough to know it was fun, and they now know where to find the resources to learn more.
Building a web site got even more complex, as we introduced a lot of topics not specific to Python, like what servers are, what the internet is made of, how data travels back and forth in requests and responses, databases and what they do, and frameworks and what they offer us.
We did skim over some of these subjects - some of them could take their own dedicated classes just to explain in detail. But we always provided lots of links back to resources in case any student wanted to explore in any particular direction and learn more.
Setup for both classes was a lot simpler this year. Preparation was key. (To recap, the classroom workstations consist of Raspberry Pis and peripherals - keyboard, mouse, monitor. The Raspbian OS includes Python 3 and comes with Idle installed.) I got a new RPi kit ahead of time and walked myself through configuration (which has gotten a lot easier over the years - we no longer have to do everything from the command line). Our kits included wifi dongles that were easily omitted from the beginner setup, added for the intermediate, and everything just worked.
We had a fairly low turnout this year, in both classes. Registration numbers weren't particularly high to begin with, and then we had quite a few no-shows, both among students and volunteers/TAs. I suspect that we did not communicate enough with our students or volunteers beforehand, and to that end I'm thinking of putting together a mailing list to keep volunteers up to date throughout the year. We also didn't promote the classes very heavily leading up to the conference - they're always so well-attended that I didn't think we needed to, but next year I'd like to do some more outreach to the local community.
As it happens, the low turnout was a blessing in disguise. Katie had to leave sprints early, and I've been struggling with an inner ear infection and vertigo that would have made it impossible to stand all day. So we sent out a call to the local teaching community and got a couple of volunteers to take over - Andrew Dupont and Taylor Meek. The two of them handled the beginner class masterfully and with humor. I was feeling a little better on the second day, so the three of us partnered up for the intermediate class. (It's certainly possible to teach either class solo, but having multiple teachers helps balance the load and allows for more personal interaction with the students.)
We also ran into a few technical issues, but not as many as I expected. For the intermediate class, we used PythonAnywhere to walk the kids through building a web site. The browser that comes with the Raspberry Pis - Epiphany - was a little slow, and didn't function well with some of the features of PythonAnywhere. During the lunch break, we installed Iceweasel on most of the Pis, and that worked beautifully. (I did walk-throughs of all the web content on the RPi ahead of time and didn't encounter any problems, so I think we might chalk that up to slight differences in operating system versions.)
Distractions were a problem, but not in the ways you'd expect. Giving the kids an internet connection wasn't an issue - they used it to read documentation and look at some of the resources we gave them. The real distractions came from devices that the kids brought with them. You can ask students to put their phones away, but what can you do if they don't comply? Our best approach was to move fairly quickly and give plenty of personal attention, two things we wouldn't have been able to do with a larger class size.
And then there's presentation, a general problem we still haven't figured out how to handle perfectly. The classroom content is on slides in Keynote - I wrote them there so that we could use speaker notes not visible to the students. But when we need to tab over to Idle or a browser to demonstrate something new, it's a clumsy process to get in and out of presentation mode. That would be true whether we used Keynote, PowerPoint, SlideDeck, or any other formal presentation medium. I'd like to move the content to Jupyter (formerly IPython notebook), but then I think we lose the option of having presenter notes that are only visible to the teacher. So I'm still searching.
Oh, and the Class example I used when talking about objects and OOP: I should not have used a 'Ball' as my example object. Not with a room full of 12-year-olds.
I'll be making a few changes to the Intermediate slides, mostly adding things we realized we wanted as we were teaching. It might be a week or so from the time I publish this before I actually have all the changes in, but feel free to take a look now if you're curious. (I'll also be adding instructions for the iceweasel install.)
Young Coders 2016 (on Github)Tweet
I tweeted a couple of things within a few hours of each other this past weekend. It wasn't until Monday morning that I realized how connected they are:
Play the animation. At first glance, it seems like utter chaos doesn't it?
But in fact it is controlled - every part interacts with every other part, and that is where the comparison to object oriented programming comes from.
How to destroy Programmer Productivity | George Stocker https://t.co/VyGntGdto2— barbara Ⓥ (@bshaurette) February 20, 2016
This should be used to explain how to visualize object-oriented software in action. pic.twitter.com/88NHW8RWeO— Josh Smith (@bach4life) February 18, 2016
Spend a few minutes watching it. See if you can get a handle on how all the actions affect each other.
If you had to make a change to any one part of the sequence, do you know how it would impact the animation as a whole?
What if every third figure coming out of the castle on the upper right had to be blue instead of yellow? It seems like a small change, but how would it affect the rest of the sequence? Does this change touch only a small part of the animation? Where would its impact be felt? Those little figures all persist into the rest of the animation. Some are carried away and dropped back into the castle tower, some cross the river and walk back into the castle, some head off-screen (and probably come back in at another side).
You almost need to memorize the entire sequence as you're making your small change, to keep tabs on the impact you're going to have as you switch animated people from yellow to blue.
Let's say you've been watching the animation for a while, and you've got a pretty good idea of what's happening. Maybe you could even describe it in detail if you watched a little longer and took a few notes.
What if someone were to walk in right now and ask you a question? What if you had to get on a phone call and were forced to focus on something else for five minutes? How much of the precise sequence of events in this animation would you remember when you came back? How long do you think it would take you to watch the animation and get familiar with its actions again?
That's analagous to the experience of working on object-oriented software. A programmer must be mindful of the impact of their code changes as they're working, and that often means remembering a complex set of interactions, carrying those interactions around in their head until the work is done.
This illustrates why even small interruptions can be a disaster to a developer. A clear calendar is a programmer's best friend, and day strewn with meetings an hour apart can guarantee that nothing useful will be accomplished in between (what's the point of immersing yourself in a program when the next interruption is just around the corner?). Schedule your standups for early in the morning or late in the day, keep all of your agile planning to one day of the week, and use email instead of IMs whenever you can. Your team will thank you.Tweet
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In The Sims 2 University players for the first time will play through the new "young adult" life stage as their Sims head off to university and join the campus crowd. Whether they live in the halls or rush a fraternity or sorority that's just the beginning...Sims can choose from one of 11 courses and by keeping their grades on track, they'll secure a final degree and open up 4 new career paths. Players will enjoy all-new university based wants and fears that are tied to their Sims' social life and academic goals which will lead to new rewards and powers that will help them achieve their goals and aspirations in university and beyond.
Pranks, parties and university social interactions add to the excitement while your Sims explore campus locations such as university lounges, pool halls, gyms and coffee houses. As in real life, if your Sims start running low on funds, they can earn Simoleans by picking up a part time job, like tutoring, or engaging in riskier affairs like printing money as a member of the "secret society".
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-> Several more career paths(paranormal, natural scientist, show business).
-> More clothing for the age groups as well as the new young adult group.
-> University campus areas.
-> The ability to unlock six wants instead of the original four when graduating and the ability to lock two of these rather than the one.
-> New life long aspiration objectives which allow your sim to increase their aspiration level to gold for the rest of their lifetime.
-> New influencing bar that allows a sim with many friends to become more influential and persuade other sims to do certain actions.
-> More objects (pool table, variety of exercise machines, and musical instruments for example).
-> New interaction options such as pillow fight and ventrilofart.
-> Can create custom campus areas in a similar fashion to the original custom neighbourhoods.
-> Computer Generated Sims. Upon entering university accomodation the player can select a dorm room for their sim and the remainder which don't have player created sims moving in will be filled with computer generated sims to interact with (these sims can follow you back into the neighbourhood once the player's sim graduates as well).
All in all a great expansion pack and enough features to make it worth the money and increase your Sims 2 playing time.
There are a lot of new items, with some requiring special mention. The new instruments can be played in sync and earn money for busking Sims, and hustling at the pool table is a joy to watch! There are also some new items specific to the campus allowing all manner of nefarious deeds.
The actual game dynamic of this expansion is what really impressed me. Where as previous expansions for The Sims just added a few actions and items, this provides an entire mini-game within Sims 2. There's such an enormous amount of scope that how you decide to play it really is critical. Time in Sims 2 could be countered with the Elixir of Life, but The Sims 2 University only gives you finite time. This expansion actually feels more like a game than a simulation, which I find a very satisfying addition. So how do you win?
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There's loads more objects, skins, wants and fears, including ones that help towards your new 'influence' meter. You can now combine 2 households as long as it doesn't exceed 8 sims. You can also play the teenage NPC's if you put them into University and once they've graduated you can put them into their own houses in the game, or combine them into another lot.
The dorms are brilliant as there are loads of other NPC's wandering about and your sim is more forward in talking to other people. There's also plenty of objects to help them increase their cooking skills, mechanical, etc.
Earning extra money is also easy, you just go to the coffee shop or bar, click on the sim working there, select 'serve drinks' or 'serve coffee' and your sims changes into the uniform. They get paid by the hour so you can decide how long they work for.
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Your sims now have lifetime wants which will put them into platinum for the rest of their lives. One of my sims wanted 6 grandchildren and the other wanted to reach the top of the Police career. You can also have more than 2 sims talking at once.
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