full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

Unscramble the Blue Letters

The popele who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in gurpos, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to oeffr community courses. And because these materials are wlidey available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA tolohengcy to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben dveeploed using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went bnanaas over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.

Open Cloze

The ______ who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in ______, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to _____ community courses. And because these materials are ______ available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA __________ to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben _________ using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went _______ over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.

Solution

  1. people
  2. developed
  3. groups
  4. bananas
  5. widely
  6. offer
  7. technology

Original Text

The people who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in groups, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to offer community courses. And because these materials are widely available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA technology to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben developed using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went bananas over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
computer science 3
department stores 2
guided trial 2
authoring tool 2

Important Words

  1. architecture
  2. attracted
  3. bananas
  4. ben
  5. build
  6. celebrity
  7. clip
  8. club
  9. community
  10. complex
  11. computer
  12. courses
  13. cpu
  14. craddock
  15. developed
  16. directions
  17. engine
  18. fangmin
  19. figure
  20. fpga
  21. game
  22. groups
  23. guangzhou
  24. hacker
  25. hackers
  26. instant
  27. materials
  28. maze
  29. media
  30. mentality
  31. minecraft
  32. nice
  33. offer
  34. people
  35. project
  36. show
  37. simulator
  38. technology
  39. typically
  40. unfolds
  41. unpredictable
  42. video
  43. washington
  44. widely
  45. work
  46. yu