Laurence Stone
@RatherBeCoding7
Building apps for use in my "Math for Electricians" and "Math for Engineering Tech" courses. Smallish for now, without a lot of gradients, but fun nonetheless!
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What meme would go with this? "If I had come through K12 these days... I wouldn't exist!" --- a doctorate in math who won't let me use her name
Here's something to try: I just got back from vacation, far enough north that I had no internet. The fun was around us. But now I followed a link to YouTube, and got hit over the head with an iMac screen full of "HEY! THE FUN IS OVER HERE! NO, HERE!" Talk about two worlds...
Somebody please invent a 24-inch iPad that I can place on a podium and project onto a screen. Wait: and some kind of glove (no finger tips) so if the side of my palm hits the screen, nothing opens up.
Who misses the days of big print publishing? You know, when they used to put so much effort into catching all the typos, before going to press...
First two app assignments due this term (SOH-CAH-TOA): youtu.be/ksISIx6HbnA
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SOH CAH TOA practice app (#1)
Is it just me, or is it a whole lot easier to make typos now that xcode tries to finish all my thoughts for me?
I side-load the app onto my device. It works. Wonderful! Time for a break. Then I come back and xcode has new errors for me... what in the world
I wonder what's the fastest anyone has gone from idea to App Store?
My smallish apps are getting bigger. Now my online students can save their quiz scores to Google Firebase and I can view them from home! But wow, the various tutorials out there were all over the place. I half think I should make my own tutorial... for us "advanced beginners."
I seem to be on a run, running into AI errors. Folks, I know AI is fast and fun, but you MUST PROOFREAD! This from the Raisin site:
Did you know that Christmas Eve is always on a Sunday? That's what AI wants me to believe (line 2):
Somehow, it's hard to believe that a tuna sandwich counts as eating fish
Well it's Saturday, and a great day for starting a phasors project using SwiftUI (electrical, not Star Trek). So that's a coil at top, resistor center, capacitor at bottom. Can't wait to see what it looks like when I add the waves/phasors together, making a series RLC circuit!
Back in the 80's, the NCTM wrote that all students, however young, should be given calculators -- since it was crucial to avoid creating a society of technological haves and have-nots. Instead, we created a society that believes 1/3 is less 1/4. AI will be worse than that.
If an app runs correctly even with seemingly incorrect logic behind it, would postmodern coding theory assert that it's correctly incorrect? Or should I keep looking for the bug?
They say a writer should write what they know. But what can AI really know? It's just an algorithm trained to fool people. Yeah, we need more of that.
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