Didaktics of media: Learning unit one - Report

This blog post is one part of the series “learning diary” for a course at my university. Goal of this report is to take and rate a online learning unit. For the first learning unit we should take either a text based or animation based course. I finished two kata on the platform http://codewars.com. Short synopsis of the unit: The learning unit C# “Descending order” is a coding kata on the site http://codewars.

Python, pandas and json_read with utf-8 encoding

The pandas library is a fantastic python toolkit to work with data. Recently I needed to read some json files in a pandas dataframe. Usually you can do that easily with the built in method: import pandas as pd pd.read_json('example.json') But this method fails, if it encounters utf-8 encoded files. In contrast to the more often used methods _read_table_ and _read_csv_, _read_json_ does not provide an _encoding_ parameter. To work around this you have to import the codecs module and use the _open_ method:

Elixir, postgres and chocolatey

You try to use the phoenix getting started guide on windows and the task “mix ecto.create” fails with an useless error? Chances are your postgresql database isn’t available with the ecto default credentials “postgres”:“postgres”. Try to logon to the database with the credentials “postgres”:“Postgres1234” and change the password for the user to “postgres”. Also, don’t forget to change the password of the Windows user “postgres”. Update 15.11.2015: You also have to change the logon information for the service, otherwise postgresql won’t start after an restart.

Didaktics of media: Instruction Planning / Target Group Specification

This blog post is one part of the series “learning diary” for a course at my university. Goals: Based on the topic of this weeks course and the provided information I assume we will learn how to specify the target group of a learning environment and possibly why it is important to define a target group. Also the planning of an online course seems to be involved. The four decisions to make if one would create a online course are:

Didaktics of media: Learning Objectives - Taxonomies

This blog post is one part of the series “learning diary” for a course at my university. Goals: The goal of this week lesson was to learn what a learning objectives is and how to define learning goals for your self. I expect to get taught some methods to define the Objectives. What have I learned: Learning Objectives are exactly that: The information the teacher/professor want to teach to the student/pupils in that lesson (or on a higher scale in that semester).

Didaktics of media: Constructionism vs. behaviorism

This blog post is one part of the series “learning diary” for a course at my university. Goals: As I started the course late (I couldn’t join the first course because of another overlapping exam) I had no goals set for this week. What have I learned: We started the course with the explanation for the last lessons course (which again, I missed). We had the task to remember five hand signs without context.

Didaktics of media: Learning Environment - status quo

In this article I provide a glance about my learning environment. This includes my methods (or my behavior) and the tools I use to learn and gather knowledge. Methods I don’t have a “real” method for learning. Most of the time I rely on my memory to remember “yeah, I’ve heard/read about that and I have an idea how to find it again”. This works kind of good for me, as I’m living in a highly connected world and have the wisdom of the world at my fingertips.

Didaktics of media: Intro

As part of the course “Didaktics of Media” at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin all participants are oblieged to write a learning diary. The learning diary shall enable the students to discover how we learn best. As part of the learning diary we also have to write two articles about our learning environment. That is, all tools and behaviours we use to learn. The first article should contain the current situation of our learning environment, the second the situation at the end the course.

Azure Service Fabric SDK setup fails with logman beeing unknown cmdlet

Recently I looked into microservies. I’ve read the excelent book “Building Microservices“ (affiliate link) and tried to combine Microservices with Microsoft. Luckily for me, I was born in exciting times and Microsoft just released anSDK for their new Microservice Framework Service Fabric. Unfortunatly I had problem with the installation. Download and installation went well, but on the step Install and start a new cluster I got the error that the cmdlet logman is not known.

Atom.io for the win

Whohoo, I gave Atom.Io another try and found a solution workaround to my @ sign problem: To fix my problem, I had to unset the keybinding for “autoflow“: open ~.atom\keymap.cson add following lines to the file: .platform-win32 atom-text-editor, .platform-linux atom-text-editor': 'ctrl-alt-q': 'unset! restart Atom.io Sources: corelgott.de