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All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists. We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.

The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.

Der Tod des PC ist ein schlimmerer Verlust, als wir in unserer neuen mobilen Netzwelt ahnen, behauptet der Netztheoretiker Jonathan Zittrain. Gegen die faktische Zensur durch das App-Konzept erscheint die Geschäftspolitik von Microsoft in den neunziger Jahren heute geradezu harmlos. Ein Essay.

Diesen Talk von Cory Doctorow auf dem 28C3 habe ich neulich quasi-live in der Internetglotze gesehen und fand ihn sehr inspirierend. Als Cory heute bloggte, dass es ein Transkript gebe, hab ich mir das gleich in ein gedit-Fensterchen kopiert und in der U-Bahn nach Hause losgelegt.