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Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.
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Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.
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Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.
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Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.
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Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.
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CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to students what is lost when they have an AI write all their code -- namely, that you're incurring cognitive and intent debt.
But I have a colleague (Dave Musicant at Carleton College) who had an experience that seems to suggest we need another category of this debt/capital.
The assignment was a relatively large project (implement a Scheme interpreter in C). My colleague had a student who he was quite certain had AI write all the code. His assessment includes an oral exam in which he asks the student questions about the code. This student was able to answer his questions pretty well. So the student had, in terms of that paper, very little technical, cognitive, or intent debt.
But it seems like the student is missing...something. It seems like a student who completed that assignment without any AI use would get something out of the experience that the AI-using student didn't. Some knowledge? Some skill? Some attitude or habit of mind? What kind of capital is developed by that student?
Thoughts?
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CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to students what is lost when they have an AI write all their code -- namely, that you're incurring cognitive and intent debt.
But I have a colleague (Dave Musicant at Carleton College) who had an experience that seems to suggest we need another category of this debt/capital.
The assignment was a relatively large project (implement a Scheme interpreter in C). My colleague had a student who he was quite certain had AI write all the code. His assessment includes an oral exam in which he asks the student questions about the code. This student was able to answer his questions pretty well. So the student had, in terms of that paper, very little technical, cognitive, or intent debt.
But it seems like the student is missing...something. It seems like a student who completed that assignment without any AI use would get something out of the experience that the AI-using student didn't. Some knowledge? Some skill? Some attitude or habit of mind? What kind of capital is developed by that student?
Thoughts?
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CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to students what is lost when they have an AI write all their code -- namely, that you're incurring cognitive and intent debt.
But I have a colleague (Dave Musicant at Carleton College) who had an experience that seems to suggest we need another category of this debt/capital.
The assignment was a relatively large project (implement a Scheme interpreter in C). My colleague had a student who he was quite certain had AI write all the code. His assessment includes an oral exam in which he asks the student questions about the code. This student was able to answer his questions pretty well. So the student had, in terms of that paper, very little technical, cognitive, or intent debt.
But it seems like the student is missing...something. It seems like a student who completed that assignment without any AI use would get something out of the experience that the AI-using student didn't. Some knowledge? Some skill? Some attitude or habit of mind? What kind of capital is developed by that student?
Thoughts?
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CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to students what is lost when they have an AI write all their code -- namely, that you're incurring cognitive and intent debt.
But I have a colleague (Dave Musicant at Carleton College) who had an experience that seems to suggest we need another category of this debt/capital.
The assignment was a relatively large project (implement a Scheme interpreter in C). My colleague had a student who he was quite certain had AI write all the code. His assessment includes an oral exam in which he asks the student questions about the code. This student was able to answer his questions pretty well. So the student had, in terms of that paper, very little technical, cognitive, or intent debt.
But it seems like the student is missing...something. It seems like a student who completed that assignment without any AI use would get something out of the experience that the AI-using student didn't. Some knowledge? Some skill? Some attitude or habit of mind? What kind of capital is developed by that student?
Thoughts?
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CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to students what is lost when they have an AI write all their code -- namely, that you're incurring cognitive and intent debt.
But I have a colleague (Dave Musicant at Carleton College) who had an experience that seems to suggest we need another category of this debt/capital.
The assignment was a relatively large project (implement a Scheme interpreter in C). My colleague had a student who he was quite certain had AI write all the code. His assessment includes an oral exam in which he asks the student questions about the code. This student was able to answer his questions pretty well. So the student had, in terms of that paper, very little technical, cognitive, or intent debt.
But it seems like the student is missing...something. It seems like a student who completed that assignment without any AI use would get something out of the experience that the AI-using student didn't. Some knowledge? Some skill? Some attitude or habit of mind? What kind of capital is developed by that student?
Thoughts?
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🤔 Ah, the "Missing Semester" of 2026, where they finally reveal the dark arts of opening a terminal and using a text editor! 🎓✨ Because clearly, knowing how to use the tools you spent thousands of hours on is the real missing link in CS education, not the actual content you're supposed to learn. 😂🔧
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ #MissingSemester #TerminalSkills #CSeducation #TechHumor #CodingEssentials #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah, the "Missing Semester" of 2026, where they finally reveal the dark arts of opening a terminal and using a text editor! 🎓✨ Because clearly, knowing how to use the tools you spent thousands of hours on is the real missing link in CS education, not the actual content you're supposed to learn. 😂🔧
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ #MissingSemester #TerminalSkills #CSeducation #TechHumor #CodingEssentials #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah, the "Missing Semester" of 2026, where they finally reveal the dark arts of opening a terminal and using a text editor! 🎓✨ Because clearly, knowing how to use the tools you spent thousands of hours on is the real missing link in CS education, not the actual content you're supposed to learn. 😂🔧
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ #MissingSemester #TerminalSkills #CSeducation #TechHumor #CodingEssentials #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah, the "Missing Semester" of 2026, where they finally reveal the dark arts of opening a terminal and using a text editor! 🎓✨ Because clearly, knowing how to use the tools you spent thousands of hours on is the real missing link in CS education, not the actual content you're supposed to learn. 😂🔧
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ #MissingSemester #TerminalSkills #CSeducation #TechHumor #CodingEssentials #HackerNews #ngated -
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #2026 #MIT #HackerNews
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #2026 #MIT #HackerNews
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #2026 #MIT #HackerNews
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #2026 #MIT #HackerNews
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #2026 #MIT #HackerNews
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This year, PhD candidates from the ACP section are helping our (under)graduate students with the Advent of Code challenges by @ericwastl. Don't forget: programming is done best when it brings joy to you and to your community!
During the week, we offer "office hours" from 4pm to 6pm in the local student association's room. This format allows students to get help from each other and from the ACP volunteers.
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This year, PhD candidates from the ACP section are helping our (under)graduate students with the Advent of Code challenges by @ericwastl. Don't forget: programming is done best when it brings joy to you and to your community!
During the week, we offer "office hours" from 4pm to 6pm in the local student association's room. This format allows students to get help from each other and from the ACP volunteers.
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This year, PhD candidates from the ACP section are helping our (under)graduate students with the Advent of Code challenges by @ericwastl. Don't forget: programming is done best when it brings joy to you and to your community!
During the week, we offer "office hours" from 4pm to 6pm in the local student association's room. This format allows students to get help from each other and from the ACP volunteers.
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This year, PhD candidates from the ACP section are helping our (under)graduate students with the Advent of Code challenges by @ericwastl. Don't forget: programming is done best when it brings joy to you and to your community!
During the week, we offer "office hours" from 4pm to 6pm in the local student association's room. This format allows students to get help from each other and from the ACP volunteers.
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"Like parsley in Greek food: Elementary set theory and the case for DM1" by Siddharth Bhaskar (https://dblp.org/pid/170/0077.html) got accepted at SIGCSE TS 2026.
#SIGCSE #setTheory #CSEducation #math #discreteMath #computerScience
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"Like parsley in Greek food: Elementary set theory and the case for DM1" by Siddharth Bhaskar (https://dblp.org/pid/170/0077.html) got accepted at SIGCSE TS 2026.
#SIGCSE #setTheory #CSEducation #math #discreteMath #computerScience
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"Like parsley in Greek food: Elementary set theory and the case for DM1" by Siddharth Bhaskar (https://dblp.org/pid/170/0077.html) got accepted at SIGCSE TS 2026.
#SIGCSE #setTheory #CSEducation #math #discreteMath #computerScience
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #TechLearning #MIT
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #TechLearning #MIT
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #TechLearning #MIT
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #TechLearning #MIT
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
#HackerNews #MissingSemester #CSeducation #TechLearning #MIT
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I also had inspiring meetings with Lauri Malmi and Juho Leinonen from the Learning & Technology research group at Aalto University. We talked about current challenges such as students adapting to LLMs capable of generating accurate source code from natural-language problem descriptions and even historical ideas of automating assessments.
🔬 Have a look at the LeTech research group!
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Reminded of my first year programming lecturer Frank King who on the first lab gave us printed handouts with the instructions and code we needed to write as "there is a magic that happens when the code goes through your fingers". The act of actually typing it helps you remember it and how it works in a way that copying and pasting (or worse, using GenAI) never does. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-frank-king/ #Programming #CSEducation
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Reminded of my first year programming lecturer Frank King who on the first lab gave us printed handouts with the instructions and code we needed to write as "there is a magic that happens when the code goes through your fingers". The act of actually typing it helps you remember it and how it works in a way that copying and pasting (or worse, using GenAI) never does. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-frank-king/ #Programming #CSEducation
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Reminded of my first year programming lecturer Frank King who on the first lab gave us printed handouts with the instructions and code we needed to write as "there is a magic that happens when the code goes through your fingers". The act of actually typing it helps you remember it and how it works in a way that copying and pasting (or worse, using GenAI) never does. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-frank-king/ #Programming #CSEducation
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Reminded of my first year programming lecturer Frank King who on the first lab gave us printed handouts with the instructions and code we needed to write as "there is a magic that happens when the code goes through your fingers". The act of actually typing it helps you remember it and how it works in a way that copying and pasting (or worse, using GenAI) never does. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-frank-king/ #Programming #CSEducation
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Huge congratulations to Brian Harvey and Dan Garcia on receiving the 2024 ACM Service Award!
Together with Jens Mönig @moenig they laid the foundation for Snap!, the visual programming language that powers TurtleStitch. Their work has enabled creative coding and learning experiences around the world—and we’re proud to build on it!
Thank you! 💙#ACMServiceAwards #TurtleStitch #CreativeCoding #OpenSource #CSeducation
@ACM
@SnapCloudLearn more: https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-service-awards
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Huge congratulations to Brian Harvey and Dan Garcia on receiving the 2024 ACM Service Award!
Together with Jens Mönig @moenig they laid the foundation for Snap!, the visual programming language that powers TurtleStitch. Their work has enabled creative coding and learning experiences around the world—and we’re proud to build on it!
Thank you! 💙#ACMServiceAwards #TurtleStitch #CreativeCoding #OpenSource #CSeducation
@ACM
@SnapCloudLearn more: https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-service-awards
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Huge congratulations to Brian Harvey and Dan Garcia on receiving the 2024 ACM Service Award!
Together with Jens Mönig @moenig they laid the foundation for Snap!, the visual programming language that powers TurtleStitch. Their work has enabled creative coding and learning experiences around the world—and we’re proud to build on it!
Thank you! 💙#ACMServiceAwards #TurtleStitch #CreativeCoding #OpenSource #CSeducation
@ACM
@SnapCloudLearn more: https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-service-awards
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Huge congratulations to Brian Harvey and Dan Garcia on receiving the 2024 ACM Service Award!
Together with Jens Mönig @moenig they laid the foundation for Snap!, the visual programming language that powers TurtleStitch. Their work has enabled creative coding and learning experiences around the world—and we’re proud to build on it!
Thank you! 💙#ACMServiceAwards #TurtleStitch #CreativeCoding #OpenSource #CSeducation
@ACM
@SnapCloudLearn more: https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-service-awards
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Seven-action Documentation Model
I found this blog post from @[email protected] really helpful for exhaustively enumerating and mapping out different uses of software documentation. It will be useful content for describing useful documentation practices in my ML Production Systems / #MLOps class.
#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #education #teaching #cseducation #programming #datascience #machinelearning
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Seven-action Documentation Model
I found this blog post from @[email protected] really helpful for exhaustively enumerating and mapping out different uses of software documentation. It will be useful content for describing useful documentation practices in my ML Production Systems / #MLOps class.
#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #education #teaching #cseducation #programming #datascience #machinelearning
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Seven-action Documentation Model
I found this blog post from @[email protected] really helpful for exhaustively enumerating and mapping out different uses of software documentation. It will be useful content for describing useful documentation practices in my ML Production Systems / #MLOps class.
#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #education #teaching #cseducation #programming #datascience #machinelearning
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Seven-action Documentation Model
I found this blog post from @[email protected] really helpful for exhaustively enumerating and mapping out different uses of software documentation. It will be useful content for describing useful documentation practices in my ML Production Systems / #MLOps class.
#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #education #teaching #cseducation #programming #datascience #machinelearning
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The 2025 #IEEE Frontiers in #Education #conference will be held in Nashville, TN on November 2-5. Call for abstracts is open; abstracts due Feb 3. My colleagues have reported having great and very valuable experiences at FIE.
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The 2025 #IEEE Frontiers in #Education #conference will be held in Nashville, TN on November 2-5. Call for abstracts is open; abstracts due Feb 3. My colleagues have reported having great and very valuable experiences at FIE.
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The 2025 #IEEE Frontiers in #Education #conference will be held in Nashville, TN on November 2-5. Call for abstracts is open; abstracts due Feb 3. My colleagues have reported having great and very valuable experiences at FIE.
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The 2025 #IEEE Frontiers in #Education #conference will be held in Nashville, TN on November 2-5. Call for abstracts is open; abstracts due Feb 3. My colleagues have reported having great and very valuable experiences at FIE.
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Assignments for 6 of 7 parts of the semester-long project for my Spring class written. Only one more left!
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I also happen to really like the Marshmallow library for data validation. It can check types, for missing fields, for extraneous fields, and semantic checks on the values of fields (whether a string contains a valid email address, if numbers are in a specific range, etc.). It then prints out detailed error messages for the violations. #DataEngineering #cseducation #teaching #softwaredevelopment
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I also happen to really like the Marshmallow library for data validation. It can check types, for missing fields, for extraneous fields, and semantic checks on the values of fields (whether a string contains a valid email address, if numbers are in a specific range, etc.). It then prints out detailed error messages for the violations. #DataEngineering #cseducation #teaching #softwaredevelopment
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I also happen to really like the Marshmallow library for data validation. It can check types, for missing fields, for extraneous fields, and semantic checks on the values of fields (whether a string contains a valid email address, if numbers are in a specific range, etc.). It then prints out detailed error messages for the violations. #DataEngineering #cseducation #teaching #softwaredevelopment
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I also happen to really like the Marshmallow library for data validation. It can check types, for missing fields, for extraneous fields, and semantic checks on the values of fields (whether a string contains a valid email address, if numbers are in a specific range, etc.). It then prints out detailed error messages for the violations. #DataEngineering #cseducation #teaching #softwaredevelopment
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After each batch is processed, the number of records processed and fraction surviving are pushed to a monitoring service. This allows setting alerts if processing rates and survival fractions fall out of expected ranges. #dataengineering #monitoring #teaching #cseducation #softwaredevelopment
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After each batch is processed, the number of records processed and fraction surviving are pushed to a monitoring service. This allows setting alerts if processing rates and survival fractions fall out of expected ranges. #dataengineering #monitoring #teaching #cseducation #softwaredevelopment
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After each batch is processed, the number of records processed and fraction surviving are pushed to a monitoring service. This allows setting alerts if processing rates and survival fractions fall out of expected ranges. #dataengineering #monitoring #teaching #cseducation #softwaredevelopment
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After each batch is processed, the number of records processed and fraction surviving are pushed to a monitoring service. This allows setting alerts if processing rates and survival fractions fall out of expected ranges. #dataengineering #monitoring #teaching #cseducation #softwaredevelopment