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Comment Re:Computer Science Unplugged (Score 1) 364

I want to recommend a curriculum from Alpha Omega that my two high school aged boys are currently using. The online curriculum blends real time quiz and test grading with teacher/parent graded items and they offer a wide range of subjects from K-12. The Computer Information System electives for the high school students address what is typically taught in the high schools in this area but Alpha Omega has chosen to base their classwork on OpenOffice which I thought was refreshing.

The direct links to the electives are:

Business Computer Information Systems 1-A
Business Computer Information Systems 1-B

If you are less interested in business computer information systems and more interested in plain computer science I would like to suggest
DreamSpark by Microsoft. It is a plan offered to students that gives them access to all the MS tools for one year. On package they tout as providing a great introduction to programming is their Kodu programming and game platform that allows students to quickly begin programming and playing the games they create.

Comment Re:Assumptions are bad, uncheckable assumptions wo (Score 1) 237

I think there are several questions you need to answer for yourself before you address the question you're asking. One of the questions you need answer first is, "Who is my target audience and who will understand my hypothesis/arguments?" There are just a handful of people in my field. Researchers in related parallel fields my have a reasonable chance at understanding what I'm talking about but will likely have little interest or time to read my papers. Anyone else in the scientific community won't read the paper.

I am relatively certain that fewer than 10-20 people in the word have read the papers I have written simply because there just aren't that many people that are interested. If you deeply involved in your field you likely have a similar audience; possibly a larger one depending on your field but still very limited.

I believe that papers should be written in such a way that a person who is interested in duplicating your results but knows next to nothing of your field should be able to find in your writing the bread crumbs that have led you from the basic early research and the research of your contemporaries to the point where you are today. Careful use of references will help to create an overview that can act as a study guide to the interested student. It is likely that your assumptions are nuanced and possibly confusing to people outside your field but carefully chosen words and references can again leave enough of a trail that the interested student will be able to learn and fully appreciate those nuances and see why you have felt that it was important to clarify them.

It sounds like you have spent a lot of time learning to explain your hypothesis to yourself. All that remains is to capture and document the steps you have taken, weeding out or documenting false steps and emphasizing the real steps forward that you have made.

Good luck!

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