Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, plans to deliver a pilot of seven undergraduate courses to the public free of charge, via the Internet. This is not a brand-new announcement, it was made public in September 2006. But it is nonetheless very interesting. Ultimately, the University aims to offer [...]
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Today it’s a sunny morning. I woke up after a wonderful dream and had immediately two new ideas for our lecturefox project. I started the day with a fruity breakfast. After booting my computer it takes a little while to realize what had happened to our little site. While I was at sleep and dreaming [...]
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The Django-Project has added an entire page to the community-wiki about tutorials. It’s a great source of information. The tutorial list is categorized and has a clearly arranged table of contents: General Tutorials Tutorials on Specific Topics: Setup/Configurations Understanding Django Internals Templates Fun stuff with the Admin section Generic Views Email Searching Signals Forms SQL/Database [...]
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The hot web frameworks at the moment are Ruby on Rails and Django. Rails is based on the programming language Ruby. Django is based on Python. We started a month ago with Django. Our team has collect a list of the best Django resources on the web. These sites are very useful and can help [...]
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Alan Kay is one of the heroes of modern computer programming. He is one of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented software development and coined the term OOP. There is a great talk on Google Video: Alan Kay’s keynote “The Computer Revolution hasn’t happend yet” from OOPSLA97 (Atlanta, Georgia). OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages [...]
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