I am so excited about my first online course! This is a new venture for me in my “retirement”. I’m no stranger to remote learning, having done it for over a year during the pandemic. But this is my new company, and I’m taking my “Hard Fun” approach on the road! The course is Minecraft […]
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I’m so excited to be on this new adventure as CrouchingPython! Taking my “hard fun” approach from the physical classroom to the virtual space is the new challenge. I’m starting with a short 4 week course on building your own Minecraft minigame with command blocks. This is a particular favorite of mine(and students!), which I
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The title is what got me — The Child Is the Teacher. It’s a biography of Maria Montessori, and I admit I knew nothing about her and almost nothing about her “method”. But I wondered if there was some alignment between my approach and the “Montessori method”. And I was heartened and excited to see
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Every real coder knows that the first thing you do in a new language is write your “hello world” function. That way you have demonstrated that you can put a piece of text into your program (input) and get that same thing out (output). So this blog post is my way of selling “hello world!”
