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by tsumnia 5y ago
Sort of? It depends on the "thing", but spaced repetition is pretty standard for physical activities like martial arts. In essence, you're attending a class that focuses on drilling a particular technique on a regular interva
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A common issue I've seen is more the return is replaced with a print statement. As a result, their code "appears" to working because they're still seeing the right values appear in their console when they run the code. I
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I think its a two-fold issue: 1) Version control adds ANOTHER concept to students that can be difficult to grasp/appreciate. Adding it in is great from a practicality standpoint but increases the cognitive load of students with ANOTHER
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> The typing exercises remind me of 80s/90s computer magazines YUP! I've been collecting the old Usbourne and Micro Adventure books and typically bring them along when I give presentations to say "This is how they did it i
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I can't recall the exact author/paper, but I recall reading similar types of errors were observed by students learning Python. Edit: Found it ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3287324.3287381 )
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> These problems are more typo/syntax-based rather than logic-based. Interestingly enough, syntax-based mistakes are often the first hurdles students encounter in programming, as described in Altadmri's paper. They also go on t
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Honestly? Please don't. I don't mean to be rude, but the quality of some coding books is not good at all. The majority are rehashes of online documentation on what the function does with barely any examples on "real world app
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> a switch gets flipped and people start being weird, overtly sexual, or just flat out insanely critical of every little thing the female players do I have no doubt that this occurs and I've even intervened in that type of behavior
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I think the poster's "talk down to" was more referring to the general "shit talking" people do in games. Even if you have a generic username and never speak, people will talk crap, be a jerk, or whatever. Even games
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True, I think it's more that skiplists are both amortized and (taught to) expand randomly unless you dig deeper into optimizing the structure. I think with regard to hash tables, the annoyance of hashing is overlooked due to the simpli
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> One thing that bothers me about skiplists is having a static number of levels, which will either be too few or too many for most situations. You should be inserting a new level whenever you add an element to the highest. I like skiplis
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I'm curious about her work and plan to read up more into it as well! I've used the analogy metaphor as well, but commonly describe problem solving in CS via Solowoy's 'basic recurring plans' [1]. A lot of our approa
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It can depend on your research interests, but Google Scholar is my go to first dip into any topic. Then its a bit of rabbit-holing by looking at cited sources and reading them or reading other papers that were a part of the same journal&#x2
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This is actually one of the reasons I like academia so much. You are effectively paying for a scheduled practice session (ignoring discussions on tuition or the other negatives of college for the moment). Six months isn't enough to mas
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AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones(mashable.com)
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Take a look at my [2] link then (Google Scholar or ResearchGate have the PDF without a paywall)! John Edward's group out of Utah made ~30 small exercises exactly like that. "Make a loop the goes to 3", now "Make a loop t
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There are a few that have adopted typing practice with code ( https://www.speedtyper.dev/ is another one). I think they focus a little too much on training your typing speed rather than helping expose new concepts/examp
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Funny enough, this is my current gripe with learning CS in K-12 settings. The mindset I have on it is "we're just teaching it to them at younger age because they can't say no".
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I don't personally do katas, but I would recommend them. As a disclaimer, I've written a research paper on the use of typing exercises to help learn CS [1]. For typing exercises, I consider it akin to building muscle memory at get
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I wonder how Copilot's suggested snippet compares if the comment is a CS1 homework prompt.
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Same! I don't do anything as elaborate as the article, but I use a combination of OBS, PowerPoint, GIMP, IDEs, and a cheap Wacom tablet to demonstrate all the concepts for my classes. The "Khan Academy"-style drawing I think
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This isn't specific to the article per say, but something I've been discussing with my colleagues revolves around gamification and nudge theory in education. There's a lot of pressure on gamification in financial trading afte
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by tsumnia 6y ago
I'm open to accepting it as authentic, even with those reasons. VHS to Digital Converters are some a common household item, and when I bought one for old family videos, they still can act up. The distortion can come from age and improp
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by tsumnia 6y ago
One of the mods in their subreddit willingly bought and tore apart a Microsoft Hololens to prove that it was using Microvision's products [1]. It happened at the time of the mass COVID scare, but I think it got its resurgence from the
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> I don't think there is mastery in this work. I take it one step further, I don't believe mastery exists, or rather we don't have a consistency on what mastery 'is'. I prefer the saying something along the lines
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I'll tell you how, but it'll cost ya :D
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While true to some degree, Google's prior record with services, like Songza -> Google Music Play-> YouTube Music, support the knee jerk reaction. It'll start as an official Chrome OS offering before it eventually is shut dow
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I do agree and its one of the reasons my current research focuses on type-based languages instead. However, I think the issue is specific to your "when they actually want to build something" line - what does this mean? I agree and
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I would disagree - Alice[1], Scratch[2], and Snap![3] are all attempts to be beginner friendly; that is the entire area of block based programming. There are also attempts via Python with websites like CodeCombat[4]. However, I would say th
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I can't speak for the book, but I was a participant in a mindfulness study a decade ago. The biggest thing about it, I've taken, is that you recognize your feelings and acknowledge how they are causing you to behave. It doesn&#x27

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