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2025
Teaching with & about AI
This Punnett Square for teaching AI collects four possible crosses: with AI vs. about AI and for students vs. for teachers.
2024
NeoPixel example
This documents Python example code for the 50mm 12 NeoPixel (WS2812B) Ring connected to a BBC micro:bit through the micro:bit Python Editor.
Monk Makes Plant Monitor
This documents a Python library for the Monk Makes Plant Monitor (MMPM) connected to a BBC micro:bit through the micro:bit Python Editor over a serial connec...
TheHeartAndTheChip
I am a robotics and computing educator and this note captures several of my observations about the book The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future With Robots...
NäiveBayesClassifier
This is the IPDC Python+data Data-Science Algorithms extension unit activity for the Näive Bayes Classifier algorithm.
What is STEM?
STEM an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sometimes an ‘A’ is added to include arts in STE(A)M.
Big data sources
Kerri Murphy wrote: What sites do you use to obtain large sets of data for your students working with Big Data? We find a lot of sites that use big dat...
A list of possible introductory Python tutorials
It is possible to learn Python on-line from self-directed learning. This document lists several tutorial sites with Python-specific introductory tutorials. S...
IntroductoryPythonKnowledge
An introductory course in https://python.org/ should result in learners knowing and being proficient in these six concepts.
Post-AP assignment: Java Collections Framework
After the APCS A (Java) Examination, there are often 3-5 weeks left in the semester (especially for non-seniors) — depending on when the examination is sche...
JavaScript for _included .HTML file with right navigation
Inspired by Renato Golia and his Minimal Mistakes (MM) Jekyll site, hosted on GitHub Pages , this right.html file in the _include directory can be included o...
Note for testing included right.html without ToC
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Note for testing included right.html with ToC
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AdditionalNote
This is an additional note that has a duplicate filename. We can still link to the other AdditionalNote.
AdditionalNote
This is an additional note that has a duplicate filename in the SubFolder subdirectory. We can still link to the other AdditionalNote.
What I learned about Obsidian & Jekyll
How Obsidian works as a linking Markdown editor
Internal test page — do not use parentheses in note names
This note’s title tests the collapsing of spaces, '-'s, and '_'s. Putting parentheses in a note’s name makes it impossible to easily parse links with a regul...
Colors
Web colors can be specified in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in a variety of ways. Including using CSS color names or 3- or 6-digit hexadecimal (base 16) valu...