Wizard School

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by dood • 13 years ago

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Q4273j3b• 13 years ago

I'd love to read the YA novel of this. Larry Wall teaches Hermione archery and Scheme...

But I wonder if this will ever happen in real life? It has been 7 years and while there are lots of structured decentralized experiences online, and a few coding camps (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123937) and HS classes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6111375), we don't yet have anything that both (a) is a real live centralized landed integral substitute for traditional HS/college and (b) rivals HYP/Stanford/Oxbridge/etc for prestige. Prestige (b) would be the tricky part...

Seems PG once said something about why K-12 "Hacker School" wouldn't work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896. (Click parent link for context.)

Thank you for posting this! I am inspired. If I get to homeschool my kids, I am definitely putting Unix/C/Lisp on the curriculum now.

Wizard School

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