Kahn Academy <http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/> is using the same technology for its new Intro to CS. Do you remember the Brett Victor talk<http://vimeo.com/36579366>of a few months ago? It was inspired by that.
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]> wrote: > Although not a science/math site, it you want to play around with HTML5, > CSS3, and JavaScript, try jsFiddle.net. Here's one where I was playing > around with cascading menus and > animation<http://jsfiddle.net/RussAbbott/6xQpZ/52/>using pure CSS3 (no > JavaScript). Hover the mouse over the elements in the > lower right quadrant. Here are two more simpler ones that fool around with > cascading menus: http://goo.gl/lfgGP and http://goo.gl/jVrSz. > > The DOM is the hottest virtual machine. And you can change it on the fly. > This has been around for a while, of course, but with HTML5 and CSS3 (and > jQuery and other libraries and frameworks) the client-side world has really > taken off. > > *-- Russ Abbott* > *_____________________________________________* > *** Professor, Computer Science* > * California State University, Los Angeles* > > * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* > * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 > Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ > * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ > CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach > *_____________________________________________* > > > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Kinda interesting: a language that is very fast designed for science/math >> applications. >> http://julialang.org/ >> There is a cloud version to test with, and it can be used with C/Fortran >> libraries. >> >> It handles parallelism as well. They mention also having MatLab-like >> ease of use for mathematics. >> http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ >> >> As an aside, I really like the tendency in the mathematics/science >> community of providing very useable cloud based sites, often with >> "notebook" interfaces. My current favorite is a JS matrix system: >> http://goo.gl/PIHuh >> >> -- Owen >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > >
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