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 No.133[Reply]

Mod here.
I'm looking for some suggestions from Anons, such as yourselves, to make this site look better and keep it organized. Any suggestions are welcome.
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 No.441

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Hello, anons of /edu/. Along with our friends at >>>/kind/, we at >>>/hope/ would enjoy it very much if you'd pay us a visit. Sharing knowledge with everyone who needs it is part of our mission at >>>/hope/, and we admire your efforts to that end. Therefore, we /hope/ we can be friends!

If you have any questions, ask them in our Q&A thread: >>>/hope/97

Also read our mission statement: https://8ch.net/hope/mission.html

We look forward to sharing knowledge with you in the future!

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 No.19[Reply]

halfchan /sci/ webpage:
https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/

We all know this is a very incomplete site, we need to build a new wiki with more content. Mods, please sticky this so we can dump info/links/videos.
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 No.429

Just use /sci/'s site, you fucking morons. It's not as if we'll make anything better. If anything, we should be trying to get the best stuff on the site and making an 8ch certified curriculum.




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 No.480[Reply]

What do you want to learn now that is already

>2016

/edu/?

I think this thread will be lost when the migration to Infinity Next happens but meh, I doubt anyone will see it anyway.

I want to learn to code and microcontrollers to a point I'm capable with them, for job stuff projects and hobby work.

 No.481


 No.482

>>480

Code Academy


 No.484

>>480

Go on Youtube and watch the MIT computer science lectures, ezpz course to learn programming


 No.485

im always looking to expand my knowledge in every field in any way i can, and in my searchings i have found is a decent curriculum, save for writing and english as ive never been much for the minutia of english and the way i am practicing writing is by practicing notes for an eventual college education, and by writing what i would consider the more useful kind of note where i write things out longform so as to be read later, but in way in which you would might write a paper rather than notes.

for history, i discovered this god tier lecture series on western civilization, called the western tradition. in its 52 half hour episodes, i feel i received an education in history that so outshines everyhing i learned in school, that it would be comparable to a candle and the sun. i found the whole on youtube in decent quality, but sadly it was taken down, and now youll only find an episode here or there with shit video and Vietnamese subtitles. but alas, i found it elsewhere! you can either download it here https://kat.cr/the-western-tradition-complete-episodes-1-52-dvdrip-x264-n6-t2019071.html watch it online here http://endchan.xyz/his/res/109.html#q109 or buy it here http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html

ill eludicate on the rest tomorrow. its not like this thread is going anywhere lel




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 No.74[Reply]

Duolingo is a completely free language learning website that teaches countless languages and is always working on improving and adding new languages for you to learn.

It's completely free, but if you wish to support the website, there's a little "Support" button on the left side of the page.

Website: https://www.duolingo.com/
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 No.147

Thanks op

 No.335

Also, there is the >>>/spanish/ board. One of my friends is the owner, and it seems like it shall be fun and informative.

 No.338

How do I change the interface language? I want it in the language I'm learning

 No.443

>>117

you could try http://ninchanese.com/ for learning chinese


 No.483

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>>117

Don't forget.




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 No.478[Reply]

do you know some web where i can lean some martial arts free?

 No.479

I don't think it's a good idea. You need a controlled environment where you can practice safely with others.




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 No.450[Reply]

First thanks for the Board's owner's permission for the Discussion :)

What is the most interesting thing you have done or met online during last two weeks? Is it a news, a film, a picture, or a simple word?

What's the most terrible one?

Guys~ Please feel free to talk! post anything you like! words, pics…. It is anonymous!!! Just SHARE with us :)

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 No.470

>>461

that series is cute beyond belief


 No.473

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Good things:

>http://bulletjournal.com/ really helps my productivity and keeping organised.

>http://tmsu.org/ GNU/Linux file tagging software.

>/r/adhd and /r/getdisciplined. Despite the notoriety of reddit, there is some really decent information on here.

Bad things:

Nothing.


 No.475

>>473

>http://tmsu.org/

Wow, I've always wanted something like this! Thanks for posting!

Now all it needs is emacs support.


 No.476

>>461

Watched a couple episodes, I feel the cute is forced, find the characters unlikable, but still it can amuse me or take a laugh out of me sometimes.

Didn't really do much on the Internet this past week save for 8chan, also returning to this board after months of my last post here, hopefully now I'll learn something.




 No.474[Reply]

/r/ing sauce on "Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas"

Anyone know where I can DL a free copy?



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 No.471[Reply]

https://www.codeschool.com/

Code School is an free online learning destination for the people who wanted to learn about the codes. Each course is built around a creative theme and story line so that it feels like you’re playing a game, not sitting in a classroom.

 No.472

Sounds interesting. Have you tried it out? Is it any good?




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 No.399[Reply]

Hi /edu/ , I'm teaching a group of students how to program. Each student has something that they are learning for, including game and website creation. If anybody has any tips on teaching, I would appreciate it. They are also using 'CodeAcademy' on the side, but they're not very motivated and a couple of the students are not very intelligent.

At the moment we are writing Python, I chose this language because it is extremely simple, and it makes explaining the patterns and features in programming really easy. We are going to move into C#, because of it's use in Unity, or Actionscript 3, because some students need to learn it for their ICT class. If anyone has any better ideas, I would appreciate that as well.

Thanks.

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 No.401

Codecamy is honestly not a very good resource, especially for someone with prior programming experience.


 No.407

>>401

Then what would be? It is rude to just disagree yet not even provide an alternative.


 No.408

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>>407

I guess you need it for exercises?

The easiest would be to find a textbook online and use its exercises. Sadly I don't know any for Python.

Another good way is searching for university courses and using their exercises, like these:

http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/python_exercises.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/assignments/

You could also get some ideas from this:

https://github.com/karan/Projects

Or maybe even pic. related?


 No.409

I find that too many prompts stifle learning significantly when learning how to program. That is probably Codecadamy's biggest problem. They just more or less tell you exactly how to do an exercise and nothing gets remembered.

The best thing to do is to show the students how to work the basics of the language and then set them off to try and work stuff out for themselves. Ask them to make simple apps, with perhaps minor prompts on specific lines of code they will need (eg.to find the index of an array) and just let them work the rest out for themselves. It takes time but people remember how to write code and more importantly how to problem solve.


 No.467

python + pygame for game creation

ruby + sinatra (or rails but it's heavier) + html/css for websites




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 No.444[Reply]

ok guys~ I am glad I find a place like here. So I would need to conduct an online activity about social media, and is it ok I open a thread here next week sometime to let my classmates have some discussion? Just one thread and it will be posted and discussed in that class. I will also be glad if anyone here want to join in that discussion. Just wanna ask firstly to see if it is ok`````

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 No.446

>>445

THX! please join in discussion if you want :)


 No.447

>>446

When will it be?


 No.448

>>447

If everything goes smoothly,the discussion will be on Thursday evening next week. I am still considering the topic````


 No.449

🤗 nice to see other devices can also reach here


 No.477

>Come back to this board after months of absence.

>Straight to a thread were you just datamine my shit up

>Also arrive late at that.

Well that seems to make sense at least with the way some posts are worded, or I'm just too paranoid. As long as it is for education at least.




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 No.413[Reply]

Have you guys figured out what gravity is yet?

…because I'm still hearing talks about a "graviton" particle.

Guys, there's no "graviton particle". It's all just simple magnetism:

Through velocity electrostatic friction, every planet gains two magnetic poles. All particles align to the opposite of this magnetic field, and is attracted.

You can reverse gravity by simply strapping a very huge electromagnet underneath an aircraft (with its north pole pointing toward the planet south pole). (Of course, keeping it from spinning 180 and crashing, would be practically impossible, but if you had strong enough thrusters and a fast guidance system, I bet it would allow for some pretty sharp turns.)

I hope we learned something today.

 No.417

Goddammit nigger, Mars's dipole moment is one ten-thousandth that of earth and yet its gravity is 38% as strong.


 No.418

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>gravity is magnetism


 No.430

>>418

why not?

planets have a north and south pole

those with stronger and active electromagnetic fields such as earth have more gravity than ones such as the moon.


 No.440

>>430

Learn into basic structures of matter and supergravitaion unified theory by stoyan sarg.

Thats not a joke, I think it's an interesting theory. But I have no one to talk about it. Who takes the time and read a 600 site pamphlet about how todays physics could be wrong…


 No.442

>>413

Gravity is ur root chakra sucking on the earthly energies :^)




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 No.374[Reply]

>have to write 10 pages for Friday

This is suffering, I keep deleting what I've written because it's so shit.

How do you write? I have an outline but it's not really helping.

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 No.376

>>375

It went okay, I put in lots of relevant figures and they accepted it.


 No.427

This is gonna sound like a crock of shit but play Pen and Paper roleplaying games.

No, I'm serious. Writing is a skill that is honed like any other skill that exists: practice.

Practice is fucking mind-numbingly boring when writing because you don't progress anywhere tangible. Everything you make seems trivial, pointless and trite. It's objectively bad at the beginning, and you can see it, but unlike a physical skill you don't have the sense that you're pushing yourself, that you're progressing gradually, because writing as a skill is far more abstract.

Solidify your writing into something that requires writing to progress, some sort of sequence of events where you don't spend an entire year before you've got a result that you can evaluate, like a novel would require.

Text-based pen and paper roleplaying games will constantly use your ability to write, and you will get constant feedback from several other people. Not only does this give you an immediate result from your practice, but it also easily allows you to get critique of your writing style because you by the nature of the game have several people who read all of it.

More than that, it's a hobby instead of a mental exercise, and is enjoyable entertainment instead of a necessity.

I know this is a three month old thread but the board seems dead anyway so who gives a hoot


 No.428

>>427

This entire website is dead bro.


 No.438

>>427

Thanks for the tip, I'll try. Most of the time what I have to write is pretty technical, but I'm sure this will help anyway.


 No.439

>>428

nah, /edu/ just needs to advertize itself more everywhere




 No.431[Reply]

Hey /edu/, what's the best way to study for a history exam? I have university finals in 5 weeks and need to remember tons of content on:

>World war I

>Germany from the birth of the Weimar republic to the Third Reich

>World war II in Europe

>Leni Riefenstahl

>I also need quotes from historians and enough information about the historiography of these events to incorporate this into my essays

Also, general european history discussion thread.

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 No.433

make up rhymes and shit to remember dates, names, etc.


 No.434

I never had to study history at university level, but when I have to memorize facts I use Anki. I guess you could use it for dates and stuff?

Do you need the quotes from memory or can you use "external help" or something?


 No.435

Incredilby detailed but incomplete youtube series that is ongoing about WW1.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar


 No.436

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>>432

Much appreciated, based scholar


 No.437

The best way to study is to do the last year's exam, or failing that write lots of exam style essays.




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 No.178[Reply]

How does one go about repairing a damaged attention span? I used to be able to read a good book or listen to a full piece of classical music, but since buying a smartphone a few years ago my attention span has gone downhill. Is there a way to reverse this process?
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 No.210

reefer

 No.240

Consider this thread >>28

 No.276

>>185
I find the problem dies not with the reading being digital, but rather with the abundance of links to follow that come with digital reading.
Downloaded books with no links cause no issues.

But it's also not exactly the solution per say. A weak attention span is something that must be fought off through discipline, and reading as such just happens to train that.
Anything you can do and just keep doing may help. As long as you make the conscious decision to do so, rather than letting your mood guide you.

If you do have issues with distraction, like 'Holy shit I have to do something ELSE', then the best idea is not to hide those distractions, but to actively stop yourself from acting on them.

Discipline is key. Simple as is.

But then again, some have issues strong enough to consider mental help. ADD, ADHD, etc.
It may be worth looking into substance use. But try to avoid addictive ones.
Simple theanine works for me. To 'Calm the storm of thoughts' without putting me to sleep.

 No.425

>>182

You cannot actually "damage" your attention span.

But you can weaken it like a muscle not used.

What >>191 says is spot on. I remember when I started reading university-level textbooks for fun during highschool: At first I felt dead tired after 5 minutes and desperately wanted to do something else.

But as I forced myself to just keep reading it got better very fast.

After IIRC 2 weeks of doing this daily I was reading around 4-5 hours a day with no problems.

A few month later it was up to 13 hours a day.

Now granted I took regular breaks, but those were indeed breaks where I did nothing at all, not "lets check facebook/4chan" kinda breaks as those do not regenerate you.

Also I switched books every hour or so as I found this helped keep things from getting boring.


 No.426

>>425

>up to 13 hours a day.

Just remember to take a short break every hour or so and move a little.




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 No.1[Reply]

This thread is for proper documentaries only. Other videos belong in other threads.

This is a pretty interesting documentary. It doesn't really have one cohesive focus. It follows Africans around talking about stuff, like sub-national monarchs and a couple politicians.

PART 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGthH02pycg
PART 2 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf3QVw1Mb2o
PART 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06Bxpr_OmI
PART 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW34Zlrfrik
PART 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwnLy4n5ko
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 No.360

>>270
>>271

any stuff on physics, particularly quantum physics? i want something legit, i'd rather it be dry than sensational

 No.371

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>4 years of thunder

A calm, 4 part series about aviation in the first world war.


 No.372

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Peak Oil and how Cuba solved its oil crisis.


 No.412

check out >>>/doc/


 No.424

>>138

>Frees them for other occupations, training and self-improvement

>Under communism, the working day is freely determined

>Immediate free access to the abundance of socialized production

Holy shit communism is retarded beyond belief.

>Wanting to live in a society of NEETS and neckbeards.




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