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by acbart 2y ago
Oooh, this is awesome. I love the formalizationd presented here, and the formalization of a notional machine into something more powerful and executable. Can't wait to hear more about this. Great name too! SMoL!
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by acbart 3y ago
Global variable right in the example on the front page?
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by acbart 3y ago
You can explicitly allow it in Site Settings, and then reload the page. For me, I click the little button (looks like sliders) to the left of the URL, Site Settings, and then scroll down to change Site Audio to "Allow".
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by acbart 3y ago
All three of these authors are amazing Computer Science Education researchers. Obviously, it's a well-cited and well-argued article as well, but I feel like it's worth pointing out that I expected nothing less from them. I actuall
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by acbart 3y ago
Yes, I really wish this was the reality. I would even be very happy with a new `data` keyword for this purpose. I'm teaching `dataclasses` in my CS1, and it's nice, but frustrating that A) students have to remember the import, and
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by acbart 3y ago
I won't speak about upper-division courses, but in the introductory computing courses, I'm dealing with students who still don't know the fundamentals but want to use the LLMs to "augment" their skills. But it'
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by acbart 3y ago
I have done various kinds of book authoring in the past couple years. I loathed my time in PreTeXt. I have strong feelings about staying in Markdown from now on.
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by acbart 3y ago
http://acbart.github.io/blog/ Haven't posted much lately, but that's my blog. Mostly CS Education stuff.
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by acbart 3y ago
I'm probably not in the right state of mind, but my wife died less than a week ago and I've been considering exactly this. I just want to be able to talk to her a little more... I miss her very badly, and it would bring me some co
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by acbart 4y ago
Can anyone speak to the difference between this and Phaser?
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by acbart 4y ago
I have a hard time being interested in anything that Emery Berger has to say about Computer Science Education, since he's doing nothing to support the field. https://github.com/emeryberger/CSrankings/issues&#x
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by acbart 4y ago
Okay, yes, I agree that := is "becomes", because I grew up with Pascal, but we must acknowledge that it's a Walrus, too.
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by acbart 4y ago
This article has a photo: https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2020/09/04/2020-carillo... I suppose it is vaguely terrifying.
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by acbart 4y ago
This article, unless I'm missing something, doesn't actually explain why the algorithm works so well. It just gives the back story that led to the journal paper explaining it.
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by acbart 4y ago
I saw this talk at ICER, and I really loved how it led to the idea of evaluating tests in terms of "wheats" (good programs pass the test) and "chaffs" (bad programs fail the tests). They describe this in terms of Thoroug
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by acbart 5y ago
Maybe if we paid those who teach better, we'd attract the best of the best to teach. Instead we drive good people out by making the job unbearable.
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by acbart 5y ago
MatPlotLib support in Skulpt for BlockPy [1]. Not complete, but workable for a lot of common graphs that I use in my CS1 course. [1]: https://github.com/blockpy-edu/skulpt/blob/master/src/lib/ma
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by acbart 5y ago
I know Shriram very well, he and Kathi do excellent work and as I said they are focused on more valuable projects than trying to prove one language is superior to another for CS1. They are building tools and curricula, and have done some re
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by acbart 5y ago
Ah, debates about programming language choice for CS1, without evidence. Gotta love the CS1 language wars. Someday some folks will actually gather evidence that really let's us know if these interesting claims about these languages hol
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by acbart 5y ago
Maybe if we didn't make "Teaching Computer Science" such a worse job than "Being a Software Engineer" in so many ways. Of course, then we might accidentally start making "Teaching" a good job for folks, an
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by acbart 5y ago
What a great thing. I've been working on an interactive textbook for React and TypeScript, mostly just to better support one of my courses. I feel like faculty should be encouraged and supported to produce free, open materials like thi
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by acbart 5y ago
> without bothering the professor What the hell kind of academic culture is this? Maybe in graduate research, if I expected a research assistant to know how to do a task... but certainly not true in an undergraduate course! If they can
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by acbart 5y ago
I am so excited about this work! I think it's a wonderful big step in this area. However, I am still a little weirded out by the term "sort" being used to describe the type of a cell. Their goal is to avoid preconceptions abo
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by acbart 5y ago
I wonder if anyone could actually learn the basics of Big Oh notation from this. My students struggle with the concept, and I couldn't imagine this being sufficient for helping them get a deep or even cursory understanding.
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by acbart 5y ago
Built on PHP, over-engineered, and terrible out-of-the-box UI. I wouldn't personally recommend Moodle, unless you had no other option. It takes all of my energy to resist suggesting you just write your own LMS from scratch instead of u
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by acbart 5y ago
Do they give the effect size anywhere?
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by acbart 5y ago
Klik n Play was such a fascinating programming model. I can't think of many places with... Example-based programming? It was such a curious paradigm, in retrospect.
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by acbart 6y ago
A somewhat similar idea is the Hedy programming language: https://www.hedycode.com/
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by acbart 6y ago
I still believe it is easier to teach good habits to folks who have experience with bad habits, than to teach folks who have no experience at all. It's not too hard to find examples of how those issues (e.g., globals, stringly types, g
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by acbart 6y ago
I believe you misunderstand how the process of learning occurs. If you really want to deeply understand something, it's a whole process of connecting up existing facts and schemas in your brain. That happens more smoothly over time by

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