[Edu-sig] Articles of possible interest

[Kirby Urner]

At 06:07 PM 04/27/2000 -0500, Dorothea wrote:
>	I have been lurking for a while on edu-sig, and have read its
>archive, so of course I was pleased to see the article. I found myself
>reacting rather strongly to it, and have written up my observations and
>placed them on the Web.

Read the article, liked the polemics OK.

I agree with the focus on text/alphanumeric, as per my
http://www.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-February/000211.html

Would like to see Hamming Distance introduced earlier in
math ed, Levenshtein too.[1]  Pretty geeky!  Who wants to
supply some function defs?

Kirby

PS:  also Guido's article makes little allowance for geek 
guys who might likewise have playful uses for Barbies e.g. 
here are some links that geeks of both (?) persuasions 
might enjoy:

E.g: 
http://www.nondairy.com/People/Raven/keychains.html
http://www.atticusbooks.com/mondobarbie.html
http://www.users.bergen.org/~lucey/
http://www.margiesdollhouse.com/harley.htm

[1] http://www.cut-the-knot.com/do_you_know/Strings.html