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Linda Liukas (co-founder of Rails Girls and Codecademy community manager) is holding a Kickstarter for a children's picture book about computer programming. Despite the title of the book, I don't think it actually has anything to do with the Ruby programming language specifically.

A number of stories both on HN and here are about how to [teach](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=✓&q=teach+science&what=stories&order=relevance) and [learn](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=✓&q=learn&what=stories&order=relevance), and on [education in general](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=✓&q=education&...

Perhaps as a spark to discussion, this was presented with the note [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/msimoni/status/889151505672142849), "when people say plain text, they really mean the Unix ecosystem. 'plain text' only seems 'natural' when you have kilotons of tooling for it."

I have [posted](https://lobste.rs/s/jqamde/open_source_search_engine_learn_anything) about the Search Engine we are making to learn any topic on Earth before. Here is a video introduction to using the website. I hope you like it. I genuinely think it can bring tremendous amount of value to peopl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBus4gHF1FE

Half-hour introduction to designing effective lessons in a repeatable, evidence-based way.

In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project. They commissioned a home computer (the BBC Micro) and taught viewers how to program. The Computer Literacy Project chronicled a decade of information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing ...

(This paper is from the First Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering Education and Training in 2015) From the abstract (yes, I'm abstracting the abstract, because it actually is too long!): "[Formal Methods] plays just a minor role in both the everyday work of software engineers as...

Alan Kay, education, process science, and economics of mediocrity. Original file: https://vimeo.com/82301919