[Edu-sig] Articles of possible interest
Kirby Urner
pdx4d@teleport.com
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:30:34 -0700
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