April 2012

Introducing WordTutor

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 21/04/2012 - 20:42

[img_assist|nid=565|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=128|height=128]A few weeks ago I discovered my daughter, Madeline, was having some trouble with learning her spelling words at school.

In previous years, she was given a ten words to learn at the start of the week, and tested on those ten words at the end of the week. This year, I guess because she's older, she's been given a list of one hundred words to learn for the term, and each week she's tested on ten words at random.

Growing older and keeping it simple

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 17/04/2012 - 22:07

Having recently experienced a significant milestone birthday (no, I'm not going to tell you which one), I've been thinking about the way my thought processes have changed since I started programming way back in 1982 on a ZX81.

On the one hand, I'm no longer convinced that I know the answer to every programming problem. As Phil Haack writes in his post Getting Older: