Elsewhere
- Teaching Tech Together
- The Carpentries
- Sensible Adventures
- Architecture of Open Source Applications
- It Will Never Work in Theory
Favorites
- Teaching Tech Together
- Cigarettes and Shopify
- Goodbye, Jeff
- Seven Ways to Think Like a Programmer
- Ten Simple Rules for Talking People Into Things
- Carpentry For Everyone
- What Kinds of Exercises Do You Use to Teach Programming?
- Git, Graphs, and Software Engineering
- Ten Simple Rules for Being a Good Research Partner
- Why Teachers Don't Collaborate on Lesson Development
- Why I Teach (Revisited)
- Just Keep Swimming
- Exaptation and the Future of Software Engineering
- Daddy, Why Don't You Ever Laugh?
- Goodbye, Dad
- Is Learning at Scale Just Another Name for Ubiquitous Surveillance in the Classroom?
- Correctness Isn't Compelling
- Twenty Percent
- That Seems Simple to Me
- We Have Nothing To Give Them
Build a Better Voting Machine
Oct 30, 2006
I don't bother with Wired much any more, but this piece titled "Build a Better Voting Machine" is great. Berkeley's David Wagner and Princeton's Ed Felten (who used to write computer chess programs, many years ago) have looked at what's wrong with today's machines, and described a better one. I'm going to recommend it to my Software Architecture class...