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by acbart 11y ago
You sound pretty knowledgable about intersectionality. Do you have any material on it? I'm only familiar with it from one blog post, so I wouldn't mind learning some more. It sounds like there are more nuances to it than I first u
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by acbart 11y ago
I'll be very interested in hearing what your measures are, and how you'll account for things like employees being in a bad environment/having bad bosses. It's a complicated thing to measure. Are you guys planning on publ
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by acbart 11y ago
I'm... actually not clear on what you're saying. Are you being sarcastic or serious? I can't read your tone and I could imagine realistic scenarios where you're saying one thing or the other.
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by acbart 11y ago
The pursuit of novelty in research drives me crazy. You don't get published as easily with replications and tiny iterative developments. I wish they'd incentivize those kinds of research...
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by acbart 11y ago
Intersectionality would come into play if he was arguing that he was a member of multiple minority groups. Here he was arguing that he was a contributor (not necessarily a member!) of a single group, distinct from the previously discussed o
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by acbart 11y ago
I was amused that he defended himself by pointing out that he helps design software for a gay community. Okay, but does that really make you a minority in any way? Regardless of whether privilege is an issue in this discussion, the logic do
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by acbart 11y ago
Technically speaking, if anyone has ever said that Blah Blah is harmful, than it has been considered harmful. The latter construction with Should Be is a more polite form, but the former is also correct if it's ever been true once.
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by acbart 11y ago
Well, a really interesting evaluation would be to develop a pre-test/post-test for some learning objectives about what it means to understand code, and then have this be the presentation of an instructional unit. You could measure this
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by acbart 11y ago
Iteration and Decision are key concepts, yes, but don't underestimate the idea of "Program State". Beginners struggle with the concept that computers have a mind that changes over a program's execution. Honestly, it&#x27
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by acbart 11y ago
#5 is a classic example of the Expression Problem[1]. Are you trying to add more shapes or more functions that operate on shapes? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
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by acbart 11y ago
I use Skulpt for a lot of my research - I'd love to see a comparison against it in terms of speed, accuracy, etc.
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by acbart 11y ago
I believe that, in theory, 99% of everyone can learn to code. However, some people will take prohibitively long to do so. These people may have other talents, but they will struggle in learning how to code and probably only achieve minimal
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by acbart 11y ago
I teach intro CS to non-majors, and having to explain terminology is cumbersome. For instance, we call things "strings", "floats", and "dictionaries". And then I make them download Anaconda so they can get Spyd
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by acbart 11y ago
Most universities still teach a mandatory OS course where students build their own shell in C. Just because we start people off in block-based languages and python doesn't mean that Computer Scientists don't get the full tour of l
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by acbart 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the rough outline of your curriculum?
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by acbart 11y ago
Worth checking out: http://codespells.org/
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by acbart 11y ago
I suppose we have fundamentally different utility functions. I think it is valuable to society to have a class of (relatively) well-off creators who do that as their full-time job. Some of these creators will even start off making mediocre
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by acbart 11y ago
The OP here is Neil Fraser, a google employee who's done some really awesome work, including the creation of Blockly[1]. The rest of his writings and software are worth checking out. [1] https://developers.google.com/bl
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by acbart 12y ago
Bags: http://bags.cs.jmu.edu/ DBSnap: http://www.public.asu.edu/~ynsilva/dbsnap/ DataSnap: http://think.cs.vt.edu/snap/
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by acbart 12y ago
So I see you can categorize papers, but can I tag them? Organizing my papers isn't a partitioning problem, its a tagging problem - a paper might be on several topics, and I want to get views of "e.g., all the papers on block-based
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by acbart 12y ago
I agree that there are precise definitions of the phrase "strongly typed", but from my experience if you put 10 computer scientists in the same room, you'll hear 3 different definitions of what it means.
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by acbart 12y ago
So it's a "string contains string" function in Javascript? I mean, that's great, and this seems like a simple and clean implementation, but is it really worthy of a hacker news post? It seems like the answer to a stack o
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by acbart 12y ago
I wouldn't mind hearing your criticisms of the interface. I use a fork of this book largely for the UI (not intentionally, that's just how things worked out). I am not a GUI-person, I just use Bootstrap as defensively as possible.
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by acbart 12y ago
Hi, I'm a researcher using a (massive) fork of the Runestone platform. I'm pretty familiar with their technology and group. They use sphinx to generate html pages that then interact with their website through ajax. Their entire fo
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by acbart 12y ago
The fact that they led off with being a "Libra of Libras" immediately made me dismissive. Had to overcome a lot of bias right from the get-go.
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by acbart 12y ago
What about GUIs that need to dynamically create and destroy components at runtime?
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by acbart 12y ago
Do these guys have an open data for academic/research purposes?
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by acbart 12y ago
Research says that interactive feedback is more important than static. I recommend the OpenDSA project. http://algoviz.org/OpenDSA/ I do appreciate accessible text though - worth looking into.
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by acbart 12y ago
The author is one of the big people in the Racket curriculum.
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by acbart 12y ago
Does this allow Joins and Subqueries?

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