A quick look at why I think FOIL is an unhelpful trick taught in early math education and how understanding the distributive property gives a deeper understanding and stronger tools for students to think about numbers.
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A quick tip on how to diff a SAFE document in Google Docs so you can see if there any differences from the standard YC document.
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A simple JavaScript decorator for wrapping functions in a console.group call, so console.log calls within it are neatly grouped together. This can be helpful for debugging complicated execution of a program.
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A quick example of how to combine and compress PDFs from the command-line using pdfunite and Ghostscript.
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Some notes from my experience taking the MIT class “21M.361: Composing with Computers” with Peter Whincop.
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