I'm taking an online course at the P2P University, on "How to teach webcraft and programming to free-range students" taught by Greg Wilson.

Looking at the initial comments on the course it's possible I misunderstood what "free-range students" means ; from the course description I took it to mean teaching in …

I've been playing with the Finch, however today I was unhappy to discover that the robot stopped working again for non-root users. The Finch documentation helpfully links to this blog post on how to write a udev rule, which is the script I was using in the first place.

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An overdue post on the latest course I taught, which ended about 2 weeks ago. I taught a group of 9 people (8 adults, 1 teenager) of various backgrounds the basics of programming, using Python. It went well overall, and the class atmosphere was enjoyable.

I enjoy listening to Last.fm and recently decided it would be handier to control it from within my emacs session. Getting it to work didn't take too long but wasn't as straightforward as I hoped, mostly because it's easier to find documentation for older versions of emms (including on …

As mentioned before, I'm teaching programming again, to a group of beginners :) (Although as usual, even in a group of complete beginners there are variations in people's levels and comfort with the subject.)