Why are you interested in learning?

2017-08-07 I was asked but could not answer immediately, so I researched historical facts.

• 2010-08 Presentation on “Language Design Decisions” at Security & Programming Camp

• I was publishing the material and was asked to write a feature article for a magazine.

  • 2010-12 Gijutsu Hyoronsha WEB+DB PRESS Vol.60 Special issue 1: “Fundamentals of Language Design”

• The book was so well received that we decided to write a book.

• 「 Technology Supporting Coding 」

  • I wrote, “It’s important to learn languages by comparing them.”
  • I started thinking about “why it’s important” and wrote a chapter about it, but it was cut by an editorial decision. - Knowledge, Capitalism and the Technologist Condition
  • Break it down into columns and pack them in the end-of-chapter margins.
  • At the time of publication, it was reprocessed and put together in the form of promotional slides.
    • 2013-04-09 What do we learn and how do we learn it? What do we learn and how do we learn it?”
    • What do we learn? 2: Three major input methods

• When I get feedback that the column was helpful, I’m convinced that I should dig into this after all.

  • background

    • 2011-2014 Enrolled in the Department of Technology Management, Graduate School of Innovation Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • After studying Drucker’s “Seven Opportunities for Innovation,” I learned that it is important not to miss out on Unexpected Success.
    • Recognize the phenomenon as an “unexpected success” and run [reproduction on an enlarged or expanded scale

  • reproduction on an enlarged or expanded scale

  • 2013-09 Kyoto University Summer Design School “Designing Teamwork”

  • 2014-04-22 Developed column and wrote WEB+DB PRESS Vol. 80 Special “How Engineers Learn”

  • 2014-08 Starting a series of articles “How engineers learn” | Cybozu Style

  • 2014-09 Kyoto University Summer Design School “Designing for Learning - Finding Blind Spots”

  • 2014-09 PyCon JP 2014 Keynote Speech

  • 2014-10 Nada School Saturday Lecture 2014

  • 2014-11 Nagoya University, “Designing for Learning,”

  • 2015-01-07 Lecture on how to generate ideas

  • 2015-09-18 Tokyo Metropolitan University Special Lecture on Information and Communication 2015 ～2017

  • 2015-10 BPStudy Learning Technologies for Engineers

• 2014-04 Encounter with U-theory U-theory is interesting - NISHIO Hirokazu’s Hatena Diary

  • What was the trigger, I wonder?
  • After picking it up and reading it, I realized that the guidelines I was looking for “before the PDCA cycle starts to turn” were right here.
  • Explanation of the matter
    • W-type problem-solving model of the KJ method and U-theory, each with its own problem consciousness

• 2015-02 Encounter with clean language About Clean Language - NISHIO Hirokazu’s Hatena Diary

• Encounter with [TAE

• These are the methods that help us to verbalize.”

• “The current groupware is something that is linguified and then shared electronically, and it’s weak on how to verbalize what isn’t verbalized.”

• Technology to Support Linguistics] needs to be studied.”

• 2015-07 Linguistic Support Methods

  • Changed the theme of the call for Labo Youth to “Linguistic Technology”.
  • I was about to do a public lecture, but it was cancelled due to office relocation and other hiccups.

• Then he went on to write “The Intellectual Production of Engineers. - Intellectual Production of Engineers Before and After

• Background Information

  • 2004 “It’s important to learn by comparing languages” should have been considered useful by the time I was teaching programming to juniors during my doctoral program, because I was teaching Java and Python by comparing them.
  • 2007 PythonDevelopersCamp2007 Winter: You don’t need classes!, “I thought you really thought of a way to share an easy-to-understand way of understanding how it works.” [Source: https://www.facebook.com/nishiohirokazu/posts/10212965474668128?comment_id=10212970632917081&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22 %3A%22R%22%7D]
  • 2008 The first technical book I wrote Jython Programming is unexpectedly rated as “a very well written programming beginner book”. Unexpected Success.

• Chronology of learning

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