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“It’s obvious to most people that illiteracy and innumeracy are problems to be tackled at school, but it’s not obvious that we are now living in a world where logical and algorithmic thinking are very, very important.” “It is half design, half coding: creative coding,” said Chen, who is a designer at Google Creative Lab. “There’s a neat synergy that can happen.” ” … my definition of the Web then is resources loaded over the Internet using HTTP and then displayed in a hyperlink-capable client. This definition is liberating. It helps me see a future beyond HTML which is still the Web. I can say now that when I exclaim my love for the Web, it’s the freedom of driving the open Internet in a browser that I love, not the rendering technology. Hyperlink traversal matters. The Internet being global and decentralized matters. HTML does not matter.” “The thread that ties most of these applications together is that data collected from users provides added value. Whether that data is search terms, voice samples, or product reviews, the users are in a feedback loop in which they contribute to the products they use. That’s the beginning of data science.” “Keith made a number of key points in his talk. The web, he said, comprised of HTML, delivered over HTTP, with one-way hyperlinking in the form of URLs. He claimed that native apps broke this model, mainly because you couldn’t link to them in any universal way. Even if an app does support a URL scheme, linking to it will only work on devices that both support the app and have it installed, whereas web sites will work anywhere (in principle) …” Plask Showreel July 2011 (by Plask) “Learning to become computationally expressive is more important than ever. But I want to suggest that there is a utility for procedural literacy that extends far beyond the ability to program computers. Computer processing comprises only one register of procedurality. More generally, I want to suggest that procedural literacy entails the ability to reconfigure basic concepts and rules to understand and solve problems, not just on the computer, but in general.” “Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it’s made. That is just throwing away your great computing heritage,” he said.
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