Date: December 15, 2013

Tech News for America

So I started to prepare a mega-tweet for our new substitute teacher, and started to reference a few links – because what good is an internet page without links – from my trusty ol’ redditlog, here: https://westurner.github.io/redditlog/.

Lean Publishing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText

• https://westurner.github.io/self-directed-learning/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(documentation_generator)

  • https://pages.github.com

  • http://pages.bitbucket.org

• https://code.google.com/p/helphaitiproject/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Agile_software_development

Responsive Web Design

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Responsive_web_design

• Does it work on my device?

• Why am I looking at margins?

• Why should we prefer #anchors over page numbers?

STEM Learning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields (#STEM)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources (#OER)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare (#OCW)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy (@khanacademy)

• https://www.class-central.com/ (@classcentral)

Writing Code

• http://code.org/ (@codeorg)

• https://www.khanacademy.org/cs

• https://www.class-central.com/subject/cs

• http://www.acm.org/education/curricula/ComputerScience2008.pdf [PDF]

• http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring14/mcs.pdf (#OCW #OER) [PDF]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Algorithms

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks

• https://projecteuler.net/problems

Web Software Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/spsbs/are_the_same_thing_a_web_application_and_a_cms/#c4fy37a

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1eboql/python_website_tuts_that_dont_use_django/#c9yxl8w

Software Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_design_patterns

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_pattern_(computer_science)

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1sa5ot/for_employable_purposes_what_skills_do_i_need_to/#cdwgwaa

Web Scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

—Phil Karlton

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing (#cloud)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps (#devops)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_engineering

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_web

Sentiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis

• http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/1gpdb9/nlp_how_can_i_get_the_computer_to_understand_the/#camicro

• http://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

• https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs

Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility (#reproducibility)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science (#datascience)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access (#openaccess)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science (#openscience)

• http://www.plos.org/data-access-for-the-open-access-literature-ploss-data-policy/

• http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003285

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data (#opendata)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data (#linkeddata)

• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#x5-star-linked-open-data

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Publish data on the Web in any format (e.g., PDF, JPEG) accompanied by an explicit Open License (expression of rights).

☆☆

Publish structured data on the Web in a machine-readable format (e.g. XML).

☆☆☆

Publish structured data on the Web in a documented, non-proprietary data format (e.g. CSV, KML).

☆☆☆☆

Publish structured data on the Web as RDF (e.g. Turtle, RDFa, JSON-LD, SPARQL)

☆☆☆☆☆

In your RDF, have the identifiers be links (URLs) to useful data sources.

—http://5stardata.info/

Entrepreneurship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics

  • https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics

  • https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital

  • https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/stock-and-bonds/venture-capital-and-capital-markets/v/raising-money-for-a-startup

• https://www.quora.com/Book-Recommendations/What-books-should-entrepreneurs-read

• http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_security#The_debate

Community Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_development

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_America (@codeforamerica)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Hacks_of_Kindness (@randomhacks)

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1gn9gv/what_are_some_easy_projects_i_can_get_started_in/#cam3t17

Hyperlocal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlocal

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laniakea_Supercluster

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

• http://www.siliconprairienews.com/ (@SiliconPrairie)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Colleges_and_universities_in_Nebraska

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers_in_Nebraska

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha (#omaha)

• twitter: near:”Omaha, Nebraska, USA” within:25mi

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• EDIT: 2014-02-02: Updated link to “Mathematics for Computer Science” PDF

• EDIT: 2014-09-21: Updated link to “Mathematics for Computer Science” PDF

• EDIT: 2014-09-29: Added links to “Multiverse” and “Universe”

• EDIT: 2014-09-29: Added links to “Laniakea Supercluster”, “Virgo Supercluster”, and “Local Group”

• EDIT: 2014-12-16: Updated date formats to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

• EDIT: 2016-09-04: Updated links

Date: 2013-12-15

Posted by: Wes Turner

Tags: #community #technews #compsci #stem #learning #entrepreneurship

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