Danny dunn and the homework machine

Dunn and the homework wikipedia, the free to: navigation, article needs additional citations for verification. Dunn and the homework dunn on a desert dunn and the weather dunn and the homework machine is the third novel in the danny dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by raymond abrashkin and jay williams. This is the first novel in the series to feature uses a computer that professor bulfinch has created for nasa to prepare his homework, despite professor bullfinch's warning that danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend joe pearson and his new neighbor, irene miller, danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged. Danny's teacher also learns about the machine, and has her ideas for the homework champions. Homework machine" is in the style of the large mainframe computers of the 1950s, and one that uses paper punched cards. The concept of students using computers for research is common today; however, this computer was not merely a machine via which the drudgery of solving many 3 or 4 digit long division problems could be offloaded; it was also somehow able to accept "programming" of students' text books that enabled it to write reports on topics that were covered by the text r radio is used for the first (and possibly only) time in the series, with danny and irene attempting to get a homework question answered. 1958, illustrated by ezra jack ck, 1958, illustrated by ezra jack ck, 1960, illustrated by ezra jack ck, 1977, illustrated by anne ack, 1979, #5 in their ack, 1983 reissue, illustrated by ezra jack dunn and the homework machine was turned into a musical children's album on both golden records (golden lp 239) and wonderland records (wlp-338), with music composed by julie mandel. Danny dunn1958 american novels1958 children's books1950s science fiction novelshidden categories: articles needing additional references from july 2015all articles needing additional referencespages to import images to logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia out wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this a bookdownload as pdfprintable page was last edited on 28 july 2017, at 11: is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license;.

A non-profit ads helps you keep track of books you want to by marking “danny dunn and the homework machine (danny dunn, #3)” as want to read:Error rating book. Of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 us know what’s wrong with this preview dunn and the homework machine by jay ’s the wrong for telling us about the the book you’re looking for? Danny dunn and the homework dunn and the homework dunn and the homework machine (danny dunn, #3). Bullfinch goes off to attend a scientific conference and leaves danny in charge of his new miniature automatic computer called minia. Soon, irene and joe are in on the secret and the three friends are busy feeding more homework! See what your friends thought of this book,To ask other readers questions dunn and the homework machine,Be the first to ask a question about danny dunn and the homework e children's vintage gems. But i think the day that i brought that home i was still thinking about the fun danny, joe and irene had with old middle-grade book was okay, but in the age of the internet and google, it comes across as tlanguage“gosh” 11 times; “goodness” twice; “gee” four times; “drat”; “doggone it”; “dope” as an insult twice; “sorehead”; “stupid”consumerismsuperman; coca-colamiscellaneouscheating on homework; an adult smokes a -children-s-fantasy. This is the third installment of the danny dunn boy scientist/inventor (note, not boy genius) series and switches up the formula by introducing the third member of the cast, irene miller, in this book (her dad just moved to midston, you see) alongside danny and his bosom companion the thin, dour poet joe this installment, children reading this book will learn abo. This is the third installment of the danny dunn boy scientist/inventor (note, not boy genius) series and switches up the formula by introducing the third member of the cast, irene miller, in this book (her dad just moved to midston, you see) alongside danny and his bosom companion the thin, dour poet joe this installment, children reading this book will learn about computers circa 1958 - how they work, what programming them means, what they can do, what they can't do and what they are not (self-aware).

The danny dunn books, to my recollection, usually had one slightly fanciful element included while attempting to generally teach kids about some aspect of science and this was no exception. It's a tight little story where danny (and, more reluctantly joe and irene) use professor bullfinch's new miniac computer to do their homework for them while the doctor is away. In the end, the kids learn that by having to do the work of programming the information they needed for their homework into the computer, all they were really saving themselves was some time, as they were still learning what they needed to know (irene does a bang-up job recovering from her garbled, miniac sabotaged report on peru by basically remembering every page she entered on the spot! And the very subtle and underplayed attractions and jealousy between the various young characters is nicely things struck me - one is the odd irony of people reading this on a kindle, the other that someone needs to create a character for children nowadays to make them interested in the practical and visionary aspects of science, ala of another , the homework machine. A machine that works out arithmetic problems and grammar questions perfectly, and even does social studies homework. Danny and joe meet irene and the three of them immediately are up to scientific mischief, using professor bullfinch's new computer to do their homework for er that this book was written in 1959 when computers were real computers, taking up an entire large room, with tape drives, blinking lights and lots of buttons. I'm not sure how a kid today is going to react to the marvel of the computer in danny dunn's basement when they have one on their desk. There is a nice reversal of the traditional sex roles of the time with danny's best friend joe writing poetry while his other best friend irene is interested in science. But then kids don't have to know this to enjoy the details: title danny dunn and the homework machineauthor jay williams and raymond abrashkinreviewed by purplycookie.

I liked the invention/science factor back then, and mightily wished for my own homework machine. Added to which there is a nice little moral lesson about the reason for homework which is something many kids wonder about. And one of the things i recall was that danny had to do just about as much work to get the homework machine to do his homework, that he might as well have done his gave me a nice edge later in junior high school, high school, college, graduate school, and "the real world". Think that it was wrong for danny, irene and joe to tell a machine to do their homework for them or to use it to help them for their kind of kid would do that? Their job is to feed information into its memory banks but soon enough danny gets the clever idea that this machine can help him to do his homework. Don't get me wrong, i do not recommend any other danny dunn books except this particular gem, and only because of the subject and joe, and new friend irene, are in charge of professor bullfinch's newly-invented miniac computer, which (miraculously) is capable of producing junior-high homework-quality printouts from voice over 60 years old, this story has run out of steam. It still made a nice, nostalgic trip back to the danny dunn stories of my 5th-grade year -- this was an early story i had not yet read. I would recommend it now only for completeness, as there are other danny dunn stories that kids and joe, and new friend irene, are in charge of professor bullfinch's newly-invented miniac computer, which (miraculously) is capable of producing junior-high homework-quality printouts from voice over 60 years old, this story has run out of steam. I would recommend it now only for completeness, as there are other danny dunn stories that kids can find meaningful in a fast-paced, robot-overload, blaster-wielding, biological-apocalypse shambling horror-vs.

The thought of using a computer to help with my homework was really attractive, even though i recognized even then that progrmming it would take far more work than just doing the homework myself. I have fond memories of the misadventures of danny, joe, and irene as they program a computer to do their homework for them. In the 1950s, a computer took up a whole room, but his machine would fit in a corner of the office, though it was too big to qualify as a book was read to me when i was about three. Now, i'm going to see if the local library still has a copy so i can read it a few of these "danny dunn" books in my favorite cousin's room the summer i was 8 (i think) and became obsessed with them. This time around i read it to my 10-year-old who was enthralled with how advanced the authors ideas of computer technology were so many decades ago he said mom it's like reader children's book of another dunn and the homework machine by jay williams (1958), [1st ed. Like the danny dunn series about boy growing in scientist's house, having loads of adventures. While serving in the army he published his first book, the stolen oracle, in ms may be best-known for his young adult "danny dunn" science fiction/fantasy series which he co-authored with raymond abrashkin. Just a moment while we sign you in to your goodreads ads helps you keep track of books you want to by marking “danny dunn and the homework machine (danny dunn, #3)” as want to read:Error rating book. Just a moment while we sign you in to your goodreads video is queuequeuewatch next video is dunn and the homework machine (side 1).

Book, music and lyrics by julie rd youtube autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play dunn and the homework machine (side 2). My darling, clementine - from coronet children's berenstain bears: slumber party/the homework hassle - in to add this to watch -oh, it looks like your internet explorer is out of a better shopping experience, please upgrade ript is not enabled in your browser. On compatible nook devices and the free nook free nook book dunn and the homework machine by abrashkin abrashkin, jay uses a computer that professor bulfinch has created for nasa to prepare his homework, despite professor bullfinch's warning that danny is to leave the machine alone. Uses a computer that professor bulfinch has created for nasa to prepare his homework, despite professor bullfinch's warning that danny is to leave the machine alone.