I went to Limerick this week-end to attend the SkyNet/Ubuntu talks. It was good fun, I enjoy so much walking around UL campus and corridors, basking in old memories of when I was just settling in Ireland and was learning so much, all the time :)
The first talk was …
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read moreThis blog post by a teacher who's migrating his school IT system to an open-source infrastructure just came up on the Ubuntu-ie mailing list. It's happening in Northern Ireland but still goes on the list of "Irish schools using open-source" :)
That's really cool. The comments promise a follow-up post, I …
read moreArmed with my laptop and some notes, which I had spent the previous evening annotating then annotating the annotations, I stepped into the room where I was to teach my 7 (actually 6) students the basics of programming and Python.
The short version is, I think it went well. There …
read moreOn Wednesday, I will be teaching a small group of teenagers how to program, using Python. I'm both extremely enthusiastic about this, and scared out of my mind. As the day actually approaches, my mood tends to oscillate toward the latter more often :)
I have prepared some material... I think …
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