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Sunday, 1st January 2012

First day of 2012

In 2011 I seemed to spend a lot of time trying to make various numbers increase, such as my Khan Academy energy points, StackOverflow points, and blog visitors. This may be a result of the increasing "gamification" of websites, or maybe just that I'm so easily drawn in by such mechanics.

First day of 2011

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Wednesday, 7th December 2011

How to get black hole badges on Khan Academy

I finally worked out how to get the black hole badges on Khan Academy. I have seen various claims that the Telsa badge is for reaching 10 million points. However, the same people claim that the Atlas badge is for completing 150 exercises, and I've already completed 150 exercises (and there are now sun badges for completing 200 and 300 exercises).

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Saturday, 19th March 2011

Khan Academy

A few months ago, I wrote about various places to learn online, including the Khan Academy. Then a couple of weeks ago I saw a TED talk by Salman Khan where he talked about the Khan Academy (what else?) and its recent improvements. So I went back to the website and signed up.

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Saturday, 2nd October 2010

Learning online

A while ago I wrote about learning Chinese online, but there are resources for learning just about anything online. The internet is my primary source of information when learning programming nowadays. The statistics for my website suggest that the main reason people visit it is that they want to learn Pygame, Inkscape or how to make an SVG.

A couple of sites I have recently discovered have a lot of good resources for studying.

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