Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute“Knowing the technology better means more productive arguments when there are disagreements because everyone speaks the same language.” via The Value of the Designer Who Codes | Inc.com. If you want to design applications you need to understand how they … Continue reading
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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust came across a great quote by Chris Crawford…. “What we need is a means of democratizing programming, of taking it out of the soulless hands of the programmers and putting it into the hands of a wider range of … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been following a discussion on one of the education forums that is discussing the utility of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and others. There are complaints that Bloom’s is out of date, that we know so much more now than we did … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuite a lot as it turns out. They are both tools used to solve problems. Both are complex. Both inspire cult-like emotional attachments to specific tools. Practitioners in both fields are still looking for the panacea that will allow people … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI just read Mark Guzdial’s excellent post on some of what’s wrong with how we teach introductory programming courses. Question Everything: How We Teach Intro CS is Wrong The notion that we should be modeling expert behaviour when teaching programming is … Continue reading