The random and often opinionated musings of mr Jonasson
Feb 26, 2013
I was really excited this week to find out that I still remember and still love the Java stuff we did in first year comp sci. In order to make a presentation for a class this week, I ended up re-downloading Blue J and Java onto my new computer and coding arrays in Java like I had done it only yesterday. I consider this a compliment to my Comp 1010 teacher - apparently what he taught me stuck!
I realized that one of the reasons I love coding is the same reason as being able to speak a different language. I can understand and communicate things that not everybody can understand, and I suppose in some twisted, weird way, it makes me feel included in some kind of exclusive group. HOw many people really know what import javax.swing.* really means? How many can write Public static void main (String[] args) with confidence? Well, a lot I guess. But not many in my social circles. So I feel cool. Doesn't mean I am cool, but I feel cool.
I also realized that the name of this page - Jonasson's Yelling - may not make a great deal of sense - For this you have to know that the 'J' in my name sounds like a 'y'. So it's alliteration, with some license.
Feb 19, 2013
To be completely honest, computer science frightens me. My computer science minor contained three of the hardest courses of my entire undergrad degree (after I switched to geography and abandoned chemistry, that is), and now it has been a long time since I've done computer science aside from baisc Java, so the possibility of teaching computer science is slightly terrifying to me because I wouldn't really know where to start. And with a sometimes vague and often completely unhelpful curriculum, I feel that as a beginning teacher I would have trouble structuring a course in introductory computer science, either not knowing the best way to teach the material, or else not knowing where to stop (I might end up doing second year university stuff by mistake). I lack context for high school computer science as well because we didn't have it in my high school.
I was really excited this week to find out that I still remember and still love the Java stuff we did in first year comp sci. In order to make a presentation for a class this week, I ended up re-downloading Blue J and Java onto my new computer and coding arrays in Java like I had done it only yesterday. I consider this a compliment to my Comp 1010 teacher - apparently what he taught me stuck!
I realized that one of the reasons I love coding is the same reason as being able to speak a different language. I can understand and communicate things that not everybody can understand, and I suppose in some twisted, weird way, it makes me feel included in some kind of exclusive group. HOw many people really know what import javax.swing.* really means? How many can write Public static void main (String[] args) with confidence? Well, a lot I guess. But not many in my social circles. So I feel cool. Doesn't mean I am cool, but I feel cool.
I also realized that the name of this page - Jonasson's Yelling - may not make a great deal of sense - For this you have to know that the 'J' in my name sounds like a 'y'. So it's alliteration, with some license.
Feb 19, 2013
To be completely honest, computer science frightens me. My computer science minor contained three of the hardest courses of my entire undergrad degree (after I switched to geography and abandoned chemistry, that is), and now it has been a long time since I've done computer science aside from baisc Java, so the possibility of teaching computer science is slightly terrifying to me because I wouldn't really know where to start. And with a sometimes vague and often completely unhelpful curriculum, I feel that as a beginning teacher I would have trouble structuring a course in introductory computer science, either not knowing the best way to teach the material, or else not knowing where to stop (I might end up doing second year university stuff by mistake). I lack context for high school computer science as well because we didn't have it in my high school.