Right now I am passing through the Oracle Academy programs. The designed curriculum are using Alice and Greenfoot for developing familiarities with programming world. Me myself think that it is a great way for introducing programming in a "fun" way. Maybe anyone else have thoughts on this.
I will speak with a point of view from Indonesian with Javanese ethnicity.
Most of Indonesian peoples can speak at least 2 languages. Our local or regional language and national language.
Me myself can use 4 languages: Javanese (native), Indonesian (native), English (intermediate), Japanese (beginner), Arabic (beginner). For the Javanese language there some tiers of politeness but the usage in society can be generalized to polite Javanese (kromo) that we use when speaking to elders and rough Javanese (ngoko) that we use with our peers.
I have read some articles that speak about language effects on mind or point of view. But since I was small I learned more than two languages I cannot really differ them. Something a kin to the expression of "asking a fish what is water".
Based on my own feelings and experiences there are some nuances that accompany each language that I have known. I cannot describe them with words yet, but a language would be appropriate on different settings, medias, and intended audiences.
There are some language usages that are not appropriate when used in a different settings but sometimes of course there are some usages that would also help exploring the meanings
I am doing one of the fasting systems in islam. I have been doing it for around two month.
What i am experiencing in observing this are mainly good things, which are:
- I can controll my eating habits into a good systematic way, in sahoor and iftar. Before I would eat regardless of time or my hunger level, it is just difficult for me to moderate myself.
- My state of mind seems improved quite a lot. I am more aware of my self, my being, my hunger, and many other aspects in my life.
- I can taste food a lot more better, before I would just stuff anything as long as it is there. After I got used to the fasting, I am more selective of what I eat and enjoy each bite with great gratefulness.
Of course there are several times that are difficult for me when I am doing it. But they are far out weighted by the better things.
This is based on my own experiences and they may differ with other people's.
I knew something about it (like reading expression or something, from watching 'the mentalist'), but i did not know what it was called.
but CMIIW the technique used in the linked app is categorized as 'hot reading' right? because it somewhat gather information from our "browsing history". Somewhat same technique used by google for user 'profiling' maybe?
Thanks, i have been wanting to read his book for a while.
On the side note, is this book free? if it is not i would like to buy it sometime.
I am also wondering , Richard Hamming has died in 1998 right? if his books is distributed electronically (like in ebooks) is it violating his copyright? (i don't really understand about ebooks copyright)
Yeah, every rainy season there are some kind of campaigns here to bury or burn garbages, regularly clean or change water containers, etc. To minimize the breeding grounds for the mosquitos.
Ah yes, it appearantly so it is the same "Dengue Fever". The most common ones here in Indonesia is the ones which caused by mosquitos named "Aedes Aegypti".
We were tought in primary schools here to always be vigilant for this kind of particular mosquitos. They are characterized by a certain colour, "Black and White" stripes on their body.
So, in indonesia (bill gates recently came here) mosquitos really thrive in all regions. One of the most common and dangerous disease caused by them are (known locally as) "Demam Berdarah" with the literal translation is "Bloody Fever", i don't know if it is the same with the "dengue fever" stated in the article (i have a bad English). This disease is very dangerous especially in rainy season, when there are very many water puddle everywhere and the mosquitos breed. Sometimes hospitals have a very tough time here when the patients start flowing in a very large volumes. So i am grateful to bill gates for giving a grant for solving this problem
Thank you everyone for the suggestions and insights.
After contemplating with the choices i have decided to go through with restructuredtext, and pickup latex bit-by-bit to incorporate scientific parts (it turns out you can do some inline latex in restructuredtext).
here are some factors that drive my decision:
- i can start writing content right away without much initial learning
- rst can be read/revised by my other peers with more ease than full blown latex document.
- i can use latex parts (equations, typesetting, etc) inline with rst, and i can learn latex bit-by-bit on the way
>>I used Markdown to write the bulk of my text for a while, but I found it didn't scale very well to large documents. It is great for blog posts and the like.
what do you use for large documents? does it have references /bibliography supports?
it looks like a very nice application, but i forgot to mention that i am now mainly using linux and it seems there is no linux version? (and also free (as in free lunch version) :D)
i am considering learning latex, but it looks like it has a steep learning curve compared with markup language like rst or markdown
and also it seems very verbose i.e, presentation and content are written whole/completely