We are working hard on Kubuntu Karmic. Join us in these tutorials to learn how to help out with Kubuntu and KDE generally.

When questioned by Teachers TV, teachers complained about a five-page briefing on using glue sticks and being told to wear goggles to put up posters.

There are programming books aimed at kids, but none that I know of aimed at adult business users. There are people who could write themselves small, useful programs, but who will flee in well-justified terror if you start talking about overriding import hooks. There are people spending hours cutting-and-pasting from one file to another because they don't know how to write a six-line script. There are people could replace some of their daily tedium with just a little dose of Python. There is Resolver One, which is a fantastic way to integrate tiny dashes of Python with everyday spreadsheet work, but it's being used by thousands instead of by millions.

A leading arm of the United Nations working to spread the benefits of information technology today announced the launch of the first ever tuition-free online university.

I am so excited about the digital textbooks initiative California just launched. Starting with high school math and science books, this initiative paves the way for easier access to free digital texts in California's schools. By frequently updating texts as they are developed, rather than continuing to teach from outdated textbooks, we will better prepare our students.

It's brutal because the pressure is amazingly intense. Your test results, quite literally, will determine the rest of your life.

The Pyjama Project is a framework for computing. At its core is an integrated editor and interactive console for writing and exploring computer science through dynamic languages. It is designed to be a simple, yet powerful, integrated development environment (IDE) for students, teachers, researchers, and regular humans, too.

An Israeli entrepreneur plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People.

I would expect to find Starcraft courses in Korea, but here in the States it comes as a surprise — a pleasant surprise, but a surprise nonetheless. UC Berkeley is offering a Starcraft course that sounds like a pretty serious class

people begin with the concrete, and move to the abstract. Humans are very good at pattern recognition, so this is a natural progression. By examining concrete objects in detail, one begins to notice similarities and patterns, until one comes to understand on a more abstract, intuitive level.