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by acbart 12y ago
I suppose drill-and-practice is adequate for young learners, but boy are mathematical DaP games thick on the ground. This looks like a good implementation of one, but it's hard for me to get excited about it. Still, I'll be intere
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by acbart 12y ago
It reminds me of VirtualDub's scripting language, which is meant for videos but could do audio, if I recall correctly. It's been about half a decade since I used it, though...
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by acbart 12y ago
It'd be nice to see some more examples that show how sophisticated it is. What are some weird inputs that it can figure out? Still, this is a pretty awesome idea - definitely can see how it'll be useful for me.
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by acbart 12y ago
Assuming the correctness of the algorithm is maintained!
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by acbart 12y ago
So I'm not very knowledgeable about WebSec stuff. Why aren't more servers getting pounded by this, if it's such a big vulnerability? I expected reports of massive password and SSN reveals all over, but I haven't heard of
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by acbart 12y ago
Is the software demoed in the video the "TeachAPCS" thing? The site is currently down, but it looks like it is based on the github? I'd say it looks pretty spectacular!
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by acbart 12y ago
And I think it has a strong sell for just that - It has good features now, I just want MORE features. I'm hoping this is just the start of something bigger.
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by acbart 12y ago
I got into the demo over the summer, and I was pretty underwhelmed. They list the features on the front page there, and that's exactly what they have. So in other words, you can manage a feed of assignments ("X is due on Tuesday&q
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by acbart 12y ago
I'm surprised no one's been talking about Blockly's educational applications. My professor and I are using it in a course this fall for non-majors, to get them scaffolded through their first coding experience. After all, it l
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by acbart 12y ago
My god, if someone created a similar list for undergraduate Computer Science education, I would be astoundingly happy.
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by acbart 12y ago
It'd be interesting if we could break down academic papers into stand-alone facts, which could be cited more succinctly than the paragraphs of prose that we do now. Ideally, this would look more like academic proofs, and it'd be e
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by acbart 12y ago
If you're looking for a platform, I STRONGLY encourage you to look at either OpenDSA or Runestone, two open source interactive textbook platforms. I've been hacking on the latter this summer, porting it over to Runestone for a cou
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by acbart 12y ago
A lot of the documentation seems to be in a foreign language, including the comments for the examples. For those of us that don't speak Dutch[?], are there any plans to translate the entire thing to English?
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by acbart 12y ago
You are correct that that is another large contributing factor. There are a few other ones too, such as the lack of real-world application of what they learn, stereotypes, a terrible culture towards women in CS, and a few other massive prob
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by acbart 12y ago
The best role-models are not far away or long-dead, they are nearby and immediate. You can see their life and interact with them. Of course, there's also the problem of how many potential role models for women in computing don't r
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by acbart 12y ago
This is a chicken-and-the-egg problem, so you can't narrow your focus, but instead approach it from multiple angles. Women aren't encouraged to get involved in tech because they can't find good role models, and there are no g
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by acbart 12y ago
In my experience: ask any Computer Science professor interested in undergraduate education whether engineers should take an intro course using Matlab or Python, and they'll always say Python. Ask any non-CS Engineering professor intere
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by acbart 12y ago
My takeaway from Learning@Scale, the first big CS Education conference to focus on Learning Sciences and Computer Science "at scale", is that the people who succeed at them are the people who already have some higher education and
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by acbart 12y ago
There should be a College of Computing, offering several different majors: "Computer Science", "Software Engineering", "Human-Computer Interaction", and, damn it I want this even if there's only 3 or so pe
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by acbart 12y ago
+1 for actually providing meaningful contexts! This is right in line with Situated Learning Theory, to think about how your audience is full of Engineers that want relevant examples rather than abstract math.
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by acbart 12y ago
Interesting twists on Piet would be: * animated piet programs - perhaps where the incrementing the PC would also increment the frame of animation, or the current frame of animation is another property that can be manipulated. * writing an e
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by acbart 12y ago
I need this as a library for Python, Java, and Racket; it'd be perfect for testing web services that return Java. I should probably fork the Javascript...
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by acbart 12y ago
What does this offer over using Google Scholar's citations?
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by acbart 12y ago
Something that really surprises me, as a new researcher in CS Education, is that people aren't doing much research on CodeAcademy. I hope that people within CodeAcademy start publishing any findings that they get.
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by acbart 12y ago
A lot of the Computational Thinking movements seem to stress that "Computer Science is more than just computers!" And that's true, we have a lot more to offer! But at the same time, it's so misleading because so much of
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by acbart 13y ago
Wish they would have included OpenGameArt, which is currently trying to become funded. It's such a wonderful resource for the tremendous number of programmers out there that, like myself, can't draw worth a darn. http:/&#x2F
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by acbart 13y ago
I made a scraper meant for introductory projects in CS classes! ( http://mickey.cs.vt.edu/ )
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by acbart 13y ago
As an upper class student in CS, I've become completely soured on all the students who want to make the "X for UD" and "Y for VT". I feel like I've seen it all: textbook buyback, craigslist, even some students
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by acbart 13y ago
Absolutely correct. Using these abstract algorithms in such a "one-size-fits-all" pattern is very disengaging to students; Constructivist educators should work hard to find suitably contextualized algorithms to explore that indivi
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by acbart 13y ago
So, this is markedly similar to the project I've been working on in grad school, only without static typing. http://research.cs.vt.edu/vtspaces/realtimeweb/ Also, mine is explicitly geared towards education

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