Im testing, and Im really liking. It is easy, and fun to do things.. sure it has some things to improve, but as a first public version, it simply rocks!
Conciousness is somewhat a prevalence over instincts, you got "magically" a way to "choose". You really should read S. Freud, and M. Minsky if you want to know more about.
"There is nothing that beats seeing someone's actual code", completely agreed. A good way to see this is to let some problems to be solved and sent with the curriculum, like those acm-icpc problems.
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