Speaking slower would make the videos much longer, which would lose viewership. I'm in favour of having the presenter talk quickly, thus making the video shorter. The words are all spoken clearly; it's easy to pause and rewind if you need to.
"I absolutely applaud the effort, and I sincerely wish you success."
I wish all trolls applauded effort and wished people success.
I may not be expressing it well, but I honestly think calling this "Computer Science" is absurd. Feel free to call people who disagree with you a troll any time it's more convenient than actually having a conversation with them.
I wish we could discuss the wild success of One Laptop Per Child, which tried a similar approach. But we can't. And I personally believe it's because of this "tinker-toy hand's on" approach that One Laptop Per Child has failed so spectacularly. I fear that this approach will shove Khan Academy's "Computer Science" section into a similar footnote of history.
I also think all of this is too important to do wrong, so it pisses me off to see a group so prominent make such a misstep.
I think that python is the better choice for an in-person class, but building an in-browser js interpreter is a lot simpler than an in-browser python interpreter.
Hmm. that makes sense. because browser have been handling js for a longer time and so there would be more support for a in-browser js interpreter. I have seen some python in-browser interpreters, which are good though.
