http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/ Learning shouldn't hurt. Let's share the insights that made difficult ideas click. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:27:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-200983 madkilla Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:20:26 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-200983 Simplicity is best, you guessed but really not sure thoughts are impure in your path theres a detour Simplicity is best, you guessed
but really not sure
thoughts are impure
in your path theres a detour

]]> http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-100038 Specialist Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:37:08 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-100038 Try using the lambda calculus as an example instead of Turning machine. Try using the lambda calculus as an example instead of Turning machine.

]]> http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-97694 AppJet Kicks Off at MIT’s Splash « The AppJet Blog Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:47:46 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/combining-simplicity-and-complexity/#comment-97694 [...] We taught a course on beginner web app programming using AppJet. We had no idea whether high school students would be interested in this, and if they were, whether AppJet would be easy enough for them. Since the entire purpose of AppJet is to make programming web apps easier, we figured it we could get 8th-graders to write web apps, then we were doing a pretty good job. Side note: AppJet is not just for beginners. Easy does not imply limited in power. For instance, JavaScript is an easy programming language to learn, but it supports higher-order functions and lexical closures. [...] [...] We taught a course on beginner web app programming using AppJet. We had no idea whether high school students would be interested in this, and if they were, whether AppJet would be easy enough for them. Since the entire purpose of AppJet is to make programming web apps easier, we figured it we could get 8th-graders to write web apps, then we were doing a pretty good job. Side note: AppJet is not just for beginners. Easy does not imply limited in power. For instance, JavaScript is an easy programming language to learn, but it supports higher-order functions and lexical closures. [...]

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