Programming Sheep and Non-Programming Goats

Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat have done some field work that claims to show that students aptitude for programming can be detected before a line of code is written. Their approach involves a giving the students a programming test before starting a programming course. I recall being given a Swedish test in junior school to determine my aptitude for French and German.

Teenage Media Behaviour

Dean Kramer pointed out this interesting profile of teenage media behaviour.