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JavaScript Comments - 0 views

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  • Comments can be added to explain the JavaScript, or to make the code more readable. Single line comments start with //.
  • Multi line comments start with /* and end with */.
  • In the following example the comment is used to prevent the execution of a single code line (can be suitable for debugging): Example <script type="text/javascript"> //document.write("<h1>This is a heading</h1>");
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  • In the following example the comment is used to prevent the execution of a code block (can be suitable for debugging): Example <script type="text/javascript"> /* document.write("<h1>This is a heading</h1>"); document.write("<p>This is a paragraph.</p>"); document.write("<p>This is another paragraph.</p>"); */
  • In the following example the comment is placed at the end of a code line: Example <script type="text/javascript"> document.write("Hello"); // Write "Hello" document.write(" Dolly!"); // Write " Dolly!"
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JavaScript How To - 0 views

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  • The HTML <script> tag is used to insert a JavaScript into an HTML page.
  • <script type="text/javascript"> document.write("Hello World!"); </script>
  • how to add HTML tags to the JavaScript: Example <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> document.write("<h1>Hello World!</h1>"); </script> </body> </html>
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  • the <script type="text/javascript"> and </script> tells where the JavaScript starts and ends
  • The document.write command is a standard JavaScript command for writing output to a page.
  • By entering the document.write command between the <script> and </script> tags, the browser will recognize it as a JavaScript command and execute the code line.
  • Browsers that do not support JavaScript, will display JavaScript as page content. To prevent them from doing this, and as a part of the JavaScript standard, the HTML comment tag should be used to "hide" the JavaScript. Just add an HTML comment tag <!-- before the first JavaScript statement, and a --> (end of comment) after the last JavaScript statement
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JavaScript Break and Continue Statements - 0 views

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  • The break Statement The break statement will break the loop and continue executing the code that follows after the loop (if any).
  • <script type="text/javascript"> var i=0; for (i=0;i<=10;i++)   {   if (i==3)     {     break;     }   document.write("The number is " + i);   document.write("<br />");   } </script>
  • The continue Statement The continue statement will break the current loop and continue with the next value.
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  • <script type="text/javascript"> var i=0 for (i=0;i<=10;i++)   {   if (i==3)     {     continue;     }   document.write("The number is " + i);   document.write("<br />");   } </script>
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Felder & Soloman: Learning Styles and Strategies - 0 views

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  • REFLECTIVE
  • Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first.
  • "Let's think it through first" is the reflective learner's response.
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  • prefer working alone.
  • reflective learners
  • A balance of the two is desirable.
  • think of possible questions or applications
  • review what you have read
  • write short summaries of readings or class notes in your own words
  • will enable you to retain the material more effectively
  • INTUITIVE
  • intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.
  • you gain understanding of material by hearing classmates' explanations and you learn even more when you do the explaining.
  • intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions
  • intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.
  • If you overemphasize intuition, you may miss important details or make careless mistakes
  • need to be able to function both ways.
  • try to find the connections
  • Take time to read the entire question before you start answering and be sure to check your results
  • VERBAL
  • Verbal learners get more out of words--written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.
  • Good learners are capable of processing information presented either visually or verbally.
  • Write summaries or outlines of course material in your own words.
  • intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition.
  • GLOBAL
  • Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."
  • global learners may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.
  • What makes you global or not is what happens before the light bulb goes on.
  • strengthen your global thinking skills by relating each new topic you study to things you already know.
  • outline the lecture material for yourself in logical order.
  • you need the big picture of a subject before you can master details
  • get an overview
  • immerse yourself in individual subjects for large blocks
  • Try to relate the subject to things you already know
  • your understanding of how it connects to other topics and disciplines may enable you to apply it in ways that most sequential thinkers would never dream of.
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  • Progressive Language Skills
  • practice
  • build on
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  • find out what has worked and do more of that
  • foundational language skills and content
  • new skills are best acquired when students notice and understand
  • language acquisition
  • Students must have a strong command of the grammar and usage of spoken and written standard English to succeed academically and professionally.
  • grammar
  • usage
  • devise instructional approaches to replicate this success for other un-mastered language content and skills
  • explicit instruction
  • scaffold instruction
  • build upon prior knowledge
  • this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage.  The British don't do it that way.  They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally, depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation
  • that this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage.  The British don't do it that way. 
  • differentiate
  • comprehensible
  • oral language
  • input
  • pay attention to how you’re using the active and passive voices
  • even more important is the matter of consistency
  • usage issues
  • skill and content areas
  • we want to make sure our best feet are forward. That means making sure errors like typos or poor grammar don’t detract from what we have to say
  • make a conscious effort to use them in a way that produces clear, direct, and compelling posts
  • help the student practice skills and content already learned
  • Teach language form and meaning concurrently.
  • It’s one thing to read about the rules, but another to put them into practice.
  • inside the U.S., periods and commas go inside quotation marks
  • Think about each sentence
  • what do you want to emphasize?
  • How can you construct a sentence that gets your point across and is engaging to read?
  • The rules in American English are different from the rules in British English
  • meaning influences form
  • Form influences meaning
  • In America, we use a hard-and-fast rule that was supposedly designed by compositors to protect the tiny commas and periods (1, 2). We always put periods and commas inside quotation marks.
  • interactive discussion
  • inform the student as to “what is correct and what is not” via immediate feedback
  • provide a meaningful rationale
  • analyze how writers and speakers use the language skill and content
  • Some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences.
  • active listening
  • When combining exclamation points and question marks with quotation marks, however, Americans follow the same logical system as the British. Where you place the other marks relative to the quotation mark depends on the context of the quotation.
  • If the whole sentence, including the quotation, is a question or an exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes outside the closing quotation mark; but if only the part inside the quotation marks is a question or exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes inside the closing quotation mark.
  • In Britain, they use rules that require the writer to determine whether the period or comma belong with the quotation or are part of the larger sentence.
  • think about the function of voice when evaluating your writing
  • In American English, periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark
  • semicolons, colons, asterisks, and dashes always go outside the closing quotation mark
  • question marks and exclamation points require that you analyze the sentence and make a decision based on context
  • if you are an American, you need to keep your commas and periods inside your closing quotation marks, where they belong
  • why, you may ask, do they belong there?
  • Writing
  • Spelling/Vocabulary
  • only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic
  • Grammar/Mechanics
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Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 20th century American writer
  • blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
  • critical liberal intellectual
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  • lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • known for his humanist beliefs
  • honorary president of the American Humanist Association
  • eight rules for writing a short story:
  • Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
  • Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
  • Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
  • Start as close to the end as possible.
  • No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
  • Write to please just one person.
  • Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : Another Word: Reading and Writing... - 0 views

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  • We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
  • I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
  • Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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  • Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
  • Reading is the same way.
  • He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
  • And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
  • How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
  • beautiful and damning distinction
  • best self
  • authentic self
  • Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
  • Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
  • reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
  • I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.
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N. K. Jemisin « Transcriptase - 0 views

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  • To a member of a marginalized group, however, silence in response to bigotry can only be negative, because it connotes approval, or at best ambivalence.
  • I need to see pride in their eyes, not confusion or concern, when they look back at me. Hell, I need to be able to look myself in the eye, with my self-respect intact.
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Spanish/Verbs List - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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  • Abrir (to open)
  • Acordar (to agree upon)
  • Alquilar (to rent)
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  • Amar (to love)
  • Aprender (to learn)
  • Ayudar (to help)
  • Bailar (to dance)
  • Beber (to drink)
  • Besar (to kiss)
  • Buscar (to look for)
  • Caminar (to walk)
  • Cantar (to sing)
  • Casarse (to marry)
  • Celebrar (to celebrate)
  • Cerrar (to close)
  • Comer (to eat
  • Comprar (to purchase, to buy)
  • Comprender (to comprehend, to understand)
  • Conducir (to drive)
  • Contestar (to answer, to reply)
  • Correr (to run)
  • Cortar (to cut)
  • Costar (to cost)
  • Crear (to create)
  • Creer (to believe)
  • Cubrir (to cover)
  • Deber (to owe, should)
  • Decidir (to decide)
  • Desear (to desire, to wish)
  • Detener (to stop)
  • Discutir (to argue)
  • Distinguir (to distinguish)
  • Divertirse (to have fun)
  • Doler (to hurt)
  • Dormir (to sleep, go to sleep)
  • Enamorarse (to fall in love)
  • Encantar (to be delighted about) - gustar-type verb
  • Entender (to understand)
  • Entrar (to enter)
  • Escuchar (to listen)
  • Escribir (to write)
  • Esperar (to wait, to hope)
  • Esquiar (to ski)
  • Estar (to be)
  • Estudiar (to study)
  • Felicitar (to congratulate)
  • Ganar (to win, to earn)
  • Gustar (to like)
  • Hablar (to talk)
  • Hacer (to make, to do)
  • Hallar (to find)
  • Ir (to go)
  • Invitar (to invite)
  • Jugar (to play)
  • Lavar (to wash)
  • Leer (to read)
  • Llegar a ser (to become)
  • Levantar (to raise)
  • Llegar (to arrive)
  • Llevar (to bring, to carry)
  • Lograr (to accomplish)
  • Mirar (to look)
  • Morir (to die)
  • Nacer (to be born)
  • Nadar (to swim)
  • Necesitar (to need)
  • Obtener (to get, to obtain)
  • Recibir (to receive)
  • Saber (to know)
  • Sacar (to take out)
  • Salir (to leave, to go out)
  • Saludar (to greet)
  • Seguir (to follow)
  • Sentir (to feel)
  • Ser (to be)
  • Significar (to mean, to signify)
  • Soñar (to dream)
  • Tener (to have, to own)
  • Terminar (to finish, to end)
  • Tocar (to touch, to play an instrument)
  • Tomar (to take, to drink)
  • Trabajar (to work)
  • Traducir (to translate)
  • Traer (to bring)
  • Usar (to use)
  • Vender (to sell)
  • Venir (to come)
  • Ver (to see)
  • Viajar (to travel)
  • Visitar (to visit)
  • Vivir (to live)
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