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by acbart 6y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still hopeful for Python integration with Excel. That would be a real gamechanger, depending on how tight the integration is.
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by acbart 6y ago
When it comes to training humans and animals, positive punishment is far less effective than most other training techniques like positive reinforcement. Don't Shoot the Dog[1]! [1] https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog-
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by acbart 6y ago
This will never work because it absolutely fails to scale, at a time when we have a complete lack of computing educators. Customized projects for each student? I have 159 students in my CS1 this semester, and I can barely keep track of them
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by acbart 6y ago
You're awesome too Brian! Didn't mean to be exclusive, I know just know Jens better from SIGCSE.
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by acbart 6y ago
I really enjoy Phaser, although I vastly prefer to use it with Typescript instead of JavaScript.
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by acbart 6y ago
Very well deserved, Jens is an awesome person.
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by acbart 6y ago
That's nifty. I've seen the "drag text code" a few times, and I think it's an interesting model. Certainly helps with the discoverability problem. I actually had that feature in BlockPy at one point, but I believe m
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by acbart 6y ago
If by "translation" you mean Mutual Language Translation (turns text into blocks, and blocks back into text, as you type/drag blocks) then yes. If you mean "translation between human languages" then less so. It supp
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by acbart 6y ago
That's my hackish unit tester. You can see more information on the console log.
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by acbart 6y ago
It sounds like you've had too many bad reactions to want to keep trying, but did you try Concerta/Ritalin? That's what I was on when I was younger, and it seemed effective. I'm on Vyvanse now. The only major side effect
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by acbart 6y ago
I really wish some folks interested in the K-12 space would steal BlockMirror[1] from me and put it in more editors. I have BlockPy[2], but I'm not really trying to move aggressively into that space - I'm just a researcher. Still,
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by acbart 6y ago
Wait, wouldn't this actually be fairly simple to set up? I'll admit my Git knowledge is a little shaky, but couldn't you set up a Hook that runs when you commit a Docx/Pptx/etc. file to unzip it in memory first, and
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by acbart 6y ago
I love Skulpt! I'm so glad that it's being actively maintained. Thanks for all your hard work!
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by acbart 6y ago
Which part of the definition do you take issue with in this context? > Concentration Camps: A place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority
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by acbart 6y ago
I'm extremely excited about this. I had been using a short-hand literal-based syntax like [int] for a while, but list[int] is obviously so much better.
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by acbart 6y ago
I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them. Didn't the Reddit folks discover that shutting down hateful subreddits prevents them from popping back up effectively? I believe this is the citati
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by acbart 6y ago
I like to the curriculum I'd been developing for the past few years was scaling pretty well. Most of the technology is reaching enough stability that I can give a ton of automated feedback without killing myself, I had a pretty low DFW
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by acbart 6y ago
Sadly, certification is more or less our job now in higher education. Wasn't how the system was designed, and isn't what most faculty think about. But it's really becoming accurate. And I can't do that without proper ass
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by acbart 6y ago
Djikstra - not a professor I would want to emulate. I'm unconvinced that oral exams provide the most secure and consistent form of assessment. I'm not even sure how to evaluate such a claim, though, so it may have to stand as an o
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by acbart 6y ago
Well, it's not an easy suggestion, but certainly an interesting one. I'm going to think more about this one. Thanks for providing a new thought on a hard problem!
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by acbart 6y ago
Yes, thank you for the clarification :)
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by acbart 6y ago
Reduces the risk, but doesn't prevent it.
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by acbart 6y ago
I'm 1-on-1 interviewing my 59 Algorithms students this semester. 20 minute interviews, and I have 2.5 TAs to help offset the workload. Starts on Wednesday, I'm absolutely dreading it. This would never scale to my 180 Intro student
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by acbart 6y ago
I'm 1-on-1 interviewing my 59 Algorithms students this semester. 20 minute interviews, and I have 2.5 TAs to help offset the workload. Starts on Wednesday, I'm absolutely dreading it. This would never scale to my 180 Intro stude
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by acbart 6y ago
I still have yet to hear anyone propose a workable solution for the ultimate problem of remote assessment in CS: hiring someone to just do your work for you. Everyone keeps saying "oh just make it project-based" like I didn'
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by acbart 6y ago
Blockly is definitely open source[1]. Scratch looks like Blockly because Scratch is now written with Blockly :) [1] https://github.com/google/blockly
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by acbart 6y ago
Perhaps if the conservative voices would stop saying stupid stuff like this, they wouldn't be systematically excluded from the conversation. In my particular subfield of CS, there's a "self-identified conservative" who&#
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by acbart 6y ago
This is cool. Random idea: set up a Blockly[1] mode for using blocks to generate the PlantUML. Even more amazing if you have it bidirectional with a text mode! [1] https://developers.google.com/blockly
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by acbart 6y ago
One of my hypotheses is that it's incredibly difficult (and relatively rare) to be able to turn non-programmers into Computer Scientists. It's much easier to turn programmers into Computer Scientists. The conventional model of try
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by acbart 7y ago
I'm a university professor in CS. I don't teach people how to problem-solve, and I have never known what other people are talking about when they claim they teach that in their courses. I teach fundamental skills, and then I put m

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