Thursday 28 February 2013

2 to 10 and removing the fear for better hydro...

We live in a digital world with smartphones and computers supporting multi touch screen handling. However writing an document we still use only two finger and make a lot of noise hammering the keyboard. Not only colleagues but as well as oneself suffers from ergonomics and RSI. Base of the problem is that in school up to university we have to write reports after reports starting with old fashioned pens to computers. However we are not stimulated to learn next to hand writing, from kindergarten on, simultaneously blind 10 finger typing.

from wiki
Extending this to languages, the key for world peace and gaining knowledge, is to be multilingual. Students using digi gadgets all day long. With tablets in lectures to surf for info or messaging about the Professors hair cut. One side they are used to digital but are afraid to program and prefer spreadsheets click on. Therefore not only oral spoke languages should be though but as well as programming languages. Wether  R, Matlab, C, Fortran etc. in the end doesn't matter. In a funny way step by step removing the fear of coding. Off course the first steps are difficult but after one can do pretty cool stuff in hydrology.



I want to be:






Off course valid as well as to:

What would you like to be when you grew up ... hydrologist (using coding)