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November 2007 Archives
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In Head First Land, we aim to provide "learning for the way your brain works." Sounds good, right? We know how your brain works. But the dirty little secret is that we really have no idea how your brain works....
Continue reading Right- and left-brained learning.
It's been interesting to see what a strong reaction I received to my recent post on Hello, World (you might want to read that post and then come back here if you didn't catch it the first time around). While...
Continue reading More on Hello World.
While we have a short week here in the US Head First office due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we're not quite ready for turkey yet. In addition to the finishing touches we're putting on Head First Software Development and Head...
Continue reading Online Materials for C# and Beyond.
We sent out our November Newsletter last week. Sign up here to receive future newsletters via email....
Since you're currently reading the Head First blog, it's probably a fairly safe bet that you're eagerly awaiting the release of one or more of our holiday titles: Head First C#, Head First JavaScript, and Head First Software Development. But...
Chapter 5 of Head First C# is available for free in PDF. We've also posted the accompanying code....
I'm a programmer. Despite being an editor and author, husband, dad, etc., etc., I really started out in "real life" as a programmer, and it still largely defines me. Even though I'm not writing code every single day for 8...
Continue reading I hate Hello, World.
One of my jobs as series editor here in Head First land is to balance what everyone wants (can you say a Head First book a month, every month, forever?) with what's really going on (2 books released this year...
Continue reading Fly away, fly away, Head First C#.
Nicholas Negroponte's incredible, buzzworthy nonprofit, one laptop per child, whose goal is to supply free, energy-efficient laptop computers to all children in the developing world, is having a special 2007 holiday promotion: Give One. Get One. If you donate a...
Continue reading One Laptop Per Learner.
Kathy Sierra (co-creator of the Head First Series) provided a Keynote Presentation, and Workshop at the O'Reilly sponsored 2007 Web 2.0 Expo Berlin this week. Although I was unable to attend 2.0 Berlin, there were quite a few individuals that...
Continue reading Did You Hear?.
As I've so often suspected, keeping too much information in your head at one time is a good way to discourage further learning. A recent study from Stanford University helps confirm my suspicion. Using MRI scans, scientists found that those...
Continue reading Want to learn more? Forget It!.
I was talking to a friend of mine last night about BBSes—she was an early user; I ran one out of my basement thanks to my parents' generous donation of a second phone line and a 2400 baud modem. (She...
Continue reading What price MySpace?.
I'm so completely fascinated by how we get the learning principles that science tells us about into books... but also as to how common phenomenon in life translate into books, as well. Case in point: I've been really working on...
Continue reading Making the connection.
We're all about visuals here at Head First. Everything we know, as in we at Head First, and we, as in humans, says that visuals get the brain's attention. There's an ease of remembrance inherent in photos, images, and especially...
Continue reading The brain is a camera.
The lede from from a Computerworld article from Saturday: An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050. Robots will become so human-like...
That was a headline in last Sunday's Boston Globe Ideas Section. So I read a little further. And to my surprise an O'Reilly colleague, Mark Frauenfelder, was mentioned in the article. In addition to being the editor-in-chief of the fantastic...
The Head First C# Forum is now open for business. Chat with fellow fans as well as the authors themselves....
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math. - Jessica Hage Today's blog post is...
I read to have fun, or for enjoyment, or for entertainment, or perhaps to escape the drudgery of my day. And even if I'm reading non-fiction, or "for learning," I still have to enjoy the book. The writing has to...
Continue reading We still read for enjoyment.
Technology is turning us into morons. David Brooks of the New York Times says so in this fabulous, tragicomic column, and he's right. OK, actually to be more accurate and less sensational (because that's what blogging's all about), he merely...
Continue reading Yay for teh Internets :-).
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