It can look bad to have high test scores and poor grades because it implies you were a lazy student. It's not a sentiment that I agree with but our guidance counselors basically put it to us that way.
Ahh. Found the realist in this thread. Leviathan isn't really taken too seriously these days in political philosophy although its taught extensively because its a great introduction and his influence is wide. Hobbes bases his argument on premises that are dubious at best. (Men and women being solitary, miserably brutal existence until society gave them order) His conclusions are also extreme in that he concludes we will enter into the social contract and resign any semblance of freedom other than our right to preserve our own lives at any cost. He also goes to extreme lengths to justify his premises and conclusions based on the bible which is interesting if not a very modern approach to political philosophy. Max Weber is an interesting read if you want something a little more modern. John Simmons is another one to check out.
The Gay Science is another great Nietzsche book. Pick up The Birth of Tragedy if you get a chance though, Nietzche's early views on history and science are also worth reading and considering.
I've created a similar example in order to try out the new Python 3.5 async syntax. While the async function bodies themselves do not change, there is some boilerplate necessary in order to call async functions.
This type of article seems to be a right of passage from basic to upper-level/intermediate understanding of Python. Where it really gets crazy is if you are making decorators that take parameters and in turn call decorated functions from within their block. You can do some really crazy stuff, even decorate classes.
I would like to see some more articles on Python metaclasses as I think that could benefit a lot of people.
Potentially, but the people with the ability to understand the code that is being generated will always have more value than the people who don't. WISYWIG editors are useful and quick but you are ultimately limited to the what the editor allows you to build.
I've long said that an ethics class should be a required "related course" (or at least be encouraged) for various Engineering and Business majors, not because it teaches you how to be a good person but to enhance the student's ability to clarify and explain their reasoning about ethical decisions they will inevitably encounter.
Almost all engineering accreditation organizations require an ethics class. However, most students and universities do not treat the class seriously. I took an honors course run by a philosophy professor aimed at general STEM students. We learned first about the different ideas of ethics, such as deontology and utiltarianism. We then applied these systems to various ethical issues in engineering, discussed books about STEM ethical problems, and were required to write a 15 page paper about a current ethics debate, discussing what perspectives had been taken on it(mine, for example was autonomous military drones). However, I then TAd for a non-honors ethics class for CS students, run by a CS adjunct who had so much work teaching she could not focus on teaching any of her classes well. Most of it was reading from slides, multiple choice tests, a 2 page essay of what one thought about an ethical topic, and no discussion of what ethics is, or why something might be unethical. With the exception of the class I took, which required membership in a specific honors college, and only had 20 students a semester all STEM ethics classes were taught that way.
It's not enough to have a course. You have to take it seriously.
The discussed situations are analogous to the routing of the interstates through US cities. Often, they just so happened to separate black communities from white ones.
(Off-topic, but your username is the name of an old western as well as the name of one of my favorite Irish reels.)
