How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts. The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of “literacy,” drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious. Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this coupling, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy. Just as societies demonstrated a “literate mentality” regardless of the literate status of individuals, Vee argues, a “computational mentality” is now emerging even though coding is still a specialized skill.
In this well-researched and ethical study, Vee Chandler combines insight gathered from the writings of scholars and Christian philosophers with personal observations and biblical perspectives to examine the nature and value of forgiveness and help those struggling with the concepts of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Chandler begins by exploring key questions such as, When does God forgive and not forgive? and, What is God’s wrath and mercy? and then attempts to answer these questions by first defining terms according to their scriptural usage. She then examines the relationship between repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation according to the biblical model. In the second section, Chandler exegetically scrutinizes scriptural texts related to interpersonal forgiveness as well as passages concerning how God’s people should relate to their enemies and to evil persons. Finally Chandler examines the ethics of forgiveness from a moral and philosophical point of view, and ultimately establishes a model for forgiveness and reconciliation based on the biblical pattern and defended from a logical and ethical perspective. Biblical Boundaries of Forgiveness embraces the contribution of Christian philosophers while examining the nature and value of forgiveness from spiritual and moral viewpoints.
this title focuses on enabling pupils to become more effective and independent learners. It reflects developments in learning strategies - increased emphasis on 'learner self-management', building on just teaching pupils the strategies they need to tackle a reading task, for example, towards a more holistic approach.
In this second book of the Graceton series, the homesteaders’ dream of their own village continues. It could be dashed by a tragic accident, but Myrtle Nesslebaum does her best to keep her vision alive. The Petersen family still feels the lack of what the other homesteaders have: happy homes despite all other circumstances being similar. But there may be love for them in the future among their own. A murder mystery is solved, but it leads to other questions about one family’s future. Some Fargo townspeople believe that helping the homesteaders through their loss shows the potential importance of the territory for the rest of the country. A local editorial has reached the east, and a well-to-do person there also wants to help, but there might be strings attached.
In the mid-1860s, Kirk Petersen’s family settles on a homestead in North Dakota. After tragedies, he moves to Fargo, where he meets Alice, a beautiful woman running from her past. Wise beyond his years, Wilmer Petersen has reason to distrust her. Morris Nesslebaum is in Fargo looking for work and land. He befriends Alice and Wilmer and falls in love with Myrtle, whose father disowns her. Hazel, a homely teacher with little chance at love finds it in Fargo but is forced to choose between love and a predicament not her doing. The Porters are welcomed into the homesteading community despite their background as former slaves. In Fargo and on the homesteads, these lives have been difficult because of outside influences and personal and natural disasters, so they want to form their own town. They are the “Seeds of Graceton”.
If you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, or sales professional, Gravitational Marketing offers a simple method for attracting customers without the hassle of traditional manual sales labor. If you want to sell more and work less, this book exposes the principles of easily and effortlessly attracting customers without cold calling, prospecting, or begging for business. With Gravitational Marketing, you can finally stop chasing customers and let them come to you.
When Claire Burkhardt discovers the reason why her boyfriend has been "ghosting" her, she realizes that she's made a horrible mistake. Not just in ignoring all the signs of their failing relationship, but also in making her entire life about him. Determined to change her life around, she takes her best friend up on a suggestion to go on a "Self-Discovery" trip to Europe. First stop: Paris.David Coffeé is a man in the middle of a crisis. Not a mid-life crisis, just a crisis. A crisis of faith. Of life. Of career. Of family. And of his two-year relationship with the woman his father deemed "acceptable." Deciding to take a vacation to figure things out, David heads out to his vacation home in Paris where he meets Claire and his life is forever changed.David and Claire are both shocked by the intense attraction they have for each other and the way they can't seem to stay away from each other. Neither of them is bothered by the difference in their ages, their races, their nationalities, their socio-economic, or their educational backgrounds. But when the past rears its ugly head in both of their lives, they'll have to decide if what they have is worth fighting for.
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