Gonick cartoon guide

The FORTRAN coloring book

Computing Portal site

No one right answer: Greep, Battleship, Blackjack simulation

“Don't be a Google story.”

Gallery/quilt of project results.

GWAP games.

ConcJunit works with DrJava for unit testing of concurrent programs.

Example programs: multithreaded breakout, increment shared counter, breakout (from SIGCSE 2006 nifty assignments).

Event-based programming in Java: Java: An eventful approach from Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, and Thomas P. Murtagh.

More examples: pong, boxball, frogger.

Experts have an organizational framework for their expert knowledge.

Monitoring of thinking. Not built in.

Takes many hours of intense thinking to change brain wiring.

Example of code perception–how an expert sees the check for sorted example. Less than 30% of CS students.

Content: isolated pieces to be memorized vs coherent structure.

Problem solving example.

Study shows physics etc students become more novice like!

Effective teaching. Motivation. Build on prior thinking. Memory understanding. Authentic practice of expert like thinking in a strenuous extended way.

Robert Bjork articles. Repeated and spaced over time. (http://www.SpacedEd.com)

Common error: make exams count. Encourages students to cram.

Limits on working memory. Very limited in short term. Thrashing ackowledge. 7 new items is max.

Curse of common knowledge teaching mistake. Requires student to buffer all the pieces until can be shown how they fit together. Better to start with the big problem.

Learner needs to be challenged at the right level. Developing models, recognizing relevant and irrelevant material. Checking on sense making.

Feedback from teacher must be timely and specific. Also need to know what and how to think about it.

Sinnentag chap 21. Cambridge handbook of expertise. Missing from teaching but in experts:

Debugging and testing

Communication and collaboration

Implementation

Use technology.

Assign read chapter before class. Test online or at start of class. Frees up working memory.

Build class around series of questions.

Use clickers.

Discuss in small groups, then revote. Instructor snoops in conversations.

Ask for reasons. Review incorrect answers important.

Example. 10 minute activity. Group of 3. Code. How to test.

Homework is very important. Must be practicing outside if class for many additional hours.

Justification to teach programming: More and more applications are scriptable

Moodle support anonymous peer review

Scratch being enhanced to support use with SiCP

Computing (and programming) being used for self expression in middle and high schools. Important to share the results online or in the classroom.

When Alice crashes it loses changes to the world in progress.

Java bat

Max Boisot information

Taxi vs. GPS example

Onion in varnish story

From “concrete and codified” to “abstract and uncodified”: narratives bridges the gap

Have narrative be descriptive not prescriptive. How I did it not how you should do it? (Disciplinary Commons)

Auhentic stories. Lightweight, fragmented, anecdotal. Collecting narratives of day every day academic.

http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk.

T-shirt slogan: “This is what a Computer Scientist looks like.”