Web & Tech Lobbying. Some thoughts about programming language tutorials and books. First, I want to welcome you to "Computer Science for Everyone". I made this course in the hopes that those who are seeking to learn programming would be able to. I realize that this is a complex topic, and it may seem overwhelming at first. Once you learn this skill, you will have many opportunities open to you that were not open before. You may be able to get a better job, or perhaps even to create your own product and start your own company. At the very least, you will have access to far more tools that will enable you to do more than you could do before.
When you go through the lessons in this course, I encourage you to go through each lesson word-for-word methodically. Also, do not skip a lesson. So many lessons may seem overwhelming, and if so I want to assure you that while there is a lot of material in this course, I go through it slowly. It may be that in the past you tried to learn programming and couldn't. Very rarely do any of these tutorials explain beyond this. Libraries.
Web. 2orPython3. Too Early to Discount Internet’s Democratizing Effects. There is little empirical research on the effects of digital technology on politics, so the article on the democratic effects of the Internet in the International Journal of Communication by Iowa State University’s Jacob Groshek is a welcome addition to the field, though Groshek’s conclusions may be premature. The paper (PDF), ably summarized on Patrick Meier’s iRevolution blog, used a time series of 72 countries, beginning in 1946 or 1954 and ending in 2003. Groshek generated statistically-forecasted democracy values for each country using pre-Internet indicators from the 40 years before 1994.
The actual democracy scores of each country for the years 1994 to 2003 were then compared to the forecasted value. In most countries, the presence of the Internet did not correlate to a level of democracy greater that the forecasted value. According to Groshek: That future may be now. 4chan Philosophy: Christopher ‘moot’ Poole Calls Community the Killer App. 4chan founder Christopher “moot” Poole goes legit with Canvas, his new venture-backed image site.Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com AUSTIN, Texas — If anyone knows social networking, it is Christopher Poole.
As founder of message board site 4chan, Poole, aka “moot,” maintains a community of 12 million unique visitors every month, who come to swap images, launch memes, talk trash and raise hell. [eventbug id="sxsw2011"]But at a conference buzzing about location-aware apps and social-networking platforms, South by Southwest keynoter Poole presented his latest venture, Canvas, as a fairly simple website that lets people play with pictures and create online.
It’s not exactly a new 4chan, but it’s not a Facebook killer, either. Wired.com caught up with Poole following Sunday’s keynote here to get his take on why online communities are important, what helps them grow and why not everyone should rush to build platforms. Christopher Poole: Absolutely. ‘For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house.’ Hive Five: Five Best Mind Mapping Applications.