Friday, September 27, 2013

Short link for programming article

Hey there big girl,

I saw this on slashdot.  (link) Slashdot is a good news aggregator.

The article says "teach programming earlier".  I read it that way, anyway.  My take on it is "they just mastered walking intentionally and language - so they are crazy-smart and perfectly capable.  They just need a way to make vocabulary easier."

This is the actual article, something I would read:
http://www-public.int-evry.fr/~gibson/Research/Publications/E-Copies/Gibson12.pdf

Here is a more official publication reference:
Teaching Graph Algorithms To Children Of All AgesJ. Paul Gibson. Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2012), Haifa, Israel, 3-5 July, pages 34 - 39, ISBN = 978-1-4503-1246-2

The conclusion was:

I want you to be able to succeed.

Love you much, MathGirl.

-mathdad

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Aug 8th, 2013

You are such fun, mathgirl.

While driving home from an 11 hour trip to a wedding in Colorado, you made the following:

... dangit.  blogspot won't allow audio here.  dangit...

You quoted the entire episode from memory at 9pm at night to entertain yourself.

Here is the original, I think.  (link)  I hope that Hasbro keeps it up so the link is not damaged.

You can see that you get 90% of the words right, and what you get wrong is also insightful.

You are an amazing kiddo.