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I don't want to upset you. b=t there is absolutiely nothihg to recommend. it.

n=thing.

except you will be programming in a cou=le of weeks

roger schank
Professor Emeritus,

Northwester= University
CEO, Socratic Arts

learning=from experience is best done in simulation first; when it matters mo=ey has been spent on god simulations (air flight; tanks fighting etc); we =ave built what we call social (as oppose to physical) simulation for busin=ss and military -- it is how I make a living); they are not physical exper=ences, and keeping costs down is always an issue, but they seem real enoug=

but computer science is very different; if you want to build=something in CS there is nothing to simulate since the computer is doing t=at naturally; you are already in the real environment; the computer speaks=a language and you must learn it;

if I wanted to teach you a foreign language (which I ha=e done too) I could put you in that country in simulation and you could tr= talking; still to start you would need to learn some words first; our lan=uage programs assumed you knew some already but you dont know any HTML; so=you must learn it first; since books have done this, we hae no need to rep=icate them; so this not representative of what we usually build; we alread= have a computer that speaks he langguage; we dont already have a simulate= medical or legal environment for example so we would have to build it and=then we could throw you in

A book written in 06. . boring beyon= belief. how about showing kids what the final web page =hould / could look like on first page. no interactive . roger =his is nuts. I am slogging through and I am motivated.=C240 kahn academy far exceeds this, far. and they suck =ig time

thanks, you ok?