nice race

@disposedtolearn I love that!

?????

Drunk programming.... Hmmm. Maybe that explains Wind... Nevermind.

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You deleted windows? Wow.

I did too. Years ago.

Actually XP was usable. So was Win 7. But after the MS campaign to make you "upgrade" to 10 I got so disgusted that I don't use it any more.

Is 10 actually better than 7?

I've used windows 10, but not much. It's... not great. I prefer linux/macOS.

I haven't tried to boot it up for quite a while. No reason to, actually.

@Buffy relevant XKCD

Since I don't write OS-specific software, I can develop wherever I like.

Web development \o/

A day without rep is like a day without sunshine. Raining again today, too.

There's a first post review sitting in the queue

Not anymore

Today is missing a question

Or any activity whatever.

I have one in the sandbox, but I don't think it is especially exciting.

"Enjoy Programming" is still hot, but not much traffic being generated.

@skull How come you don't post on the site?

Not that is be able to answer a question if it were posted today, but even when I can't participate, I still want there to be activity.

Just three weeks until I move, and we're nowhere close to being packed

I really hate moving. Done it far too many times.

Will it put you closer to work?

Random idea from matheducators chat:

We don't need more traffic in chat, thought it can get quiet here as well. What we need is traffic, with Q&A, on the main site.

Notices here won't have much reach, unfortunately. They could generate questions here, perhaps.

But so will interesting ideas from any source.

@Buffy No, we're just moving a few blocks away to have more space

@thesecretmaster Is that even feasible? I mean, a tag-based feed?

Yep, and easy.

If so, we might be interested in doing some sort of cross-feed exchange with matheducators, because we definitely have questions that fit their area of expertise, and they definitely have questions that fit ours

If you have some tag ideas, I can add them here.

Asumming nobody objects, which it seems like Gypsy and Buffy may.

Their computer-science tag comes to mind ;-)

Let's just wait and see if anyone objects. If not, I'll add it.

It seems like that's a pretty rare tag though.

@thesecretmaster Objections = null;

Do we have tags that might be of interest to them as well?

For instance, mathematics and turing-machines might be up their alley.

That is something that we could propose to them, if they're interested.

number-systems and information-theory, discrete-math, modular-arithmetic, finite-mathematics, floating-point, finite-state-machines, and graph-theory

There are probably some more of theirs that would be of interest to us as well

I wonder how many "mathematics" instructors get stuck with a class, or two, in basic computer science because, as Admin says, computers are based on math. Aren't they?

Pshaw. That never happens. All computer science teachers are well qualified.

I think it happens a lot. It happened in my previous school

In my current school, they had IT people teaching CS before they found CS people.

They were teaching Cisco routers and network switches... good stuff, but not CS. (Though weirdly, some of them refused to acknowledge a distinction)

@BenI. When all you have is a hammer, all the world looks like a nail.

YES

@thesecretmaster No issue for me, unless it gets to be too much to follow.

@BenI. Likely it differs by state in the US. Some states are stricter about qualifications. But new teachers, whatever their training have issues they have never seen. It isn't about the content.

But a lot of APCS instructors are really not qualified for that. One or two days ahead on the syllabus.

@GypsySpellweaver When all you have is a screwdriver, the students get ....

nevermind

lol

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@thesecretmaster Does the feed get every question with the tag which it has no record of "feeding" yet?

Yep

That explains the "clean up".

Yeah. Any new feed will do that.

what did you move to the trash?

That could be rather ugly for a tag with a large number of questions in its history.

Messages from the new feed

@GypsySpellweaver It maxes out at ~5

ok

thnx

That's not a problem then.

@BenI. In my old HS (long ago and far away) the basketball-golf coach taught math.

I don't know what he studied in college. But I suspect a math minor would have been enough.

BTW, there are college majors (and major departments) in Math Education. I don't know of any in CS Education, but there are probably a few. A Math Ed major studies pedagogy. Usually combined with a math minor, I think. (Major = ~50 units (semester hours), Minor about half of that). 1 unit = about 15 hours of instruction.

The pedagogy in math ed is mostly directed at youngsters, also.

Why not just get a Major in Computer Science, and a Minor in Education. Or maybe that's a Major in Education and a Minor in Computer Science.

@GypsySpellweaver Those would both be good choices. I guess it depends on what level you want to teach at.

More possible tags we might be interested in

matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…

matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/project-euler

matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recursion

I can make feeds if eveveryone wants?

matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discrete-math

We don't necessarily need all of those, anyone feel free to nix any of them.

They just seemed potentially related. Particularly Project Euler, since that is explicitly about coding challenges

My lack of interest is not the same as an objection. If a few others are interested in such a feed, or set of feeds, I don't think it's a problem to have them here. As an alternative, if the size of the feeds does get out of hand, a side-room can be made for them.

Oh, and also...!

cs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/education

If the total comes to more than 15/hr, it might be obnoxious. Less than that shouldn't even be a distraction.

@BenI. Now that one makes perfect sense. :D

Alright, I'm done now :)

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