MBlume comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: MBlume 16 March 2011 09:55:25PM 1 point [-]

I believe there's a copy of Python squirreled away on every Mac and most Linux computers, so I'll call this progress, if we ignore Windows.

I read all my highschool math textbooks within the first couple months of the school year, so I usually spent the rest of the class period writing reversi or minesweeper or snake on my TI-85.

Comment author: jsalvatier 21 March 2011 10:36:38PM *  1 point [-]

I learned to love both math and programming by attempting to write a Scorched Earth game on my TI-83. I had a really tough time figuring out how to do ballistic calculations, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I figured it out.