I guess that still the only thing that really seems to work is the same as in other fields: peer instruction (aka the flipped classroom)

Though even with that I don't think it's known whether people learn because they are forced to also instruct, or whether their peers understand beginner level problems more intuitively and are therefore better instructors

Certainly it's easy enough to see faults in tools (bad error messages etc) but I recall reading that improving these doesn't actually make a material difference in learning results. It just feels nicer (bit like overall in "pseudo teaching" or "pseudo learning")

There are numerous related "problems", like the "two humps" where it seems like some people just get it, and some don't, resulting in a non bell-curve in test results. But nobody really seems to explain why, and for example all the different kinds of estimators for future CS academic performance seems to be just bullshit in the end

Semi related to the flipped classroom. I’ve never learnt as much about Clojure as when I worked with the welcome_to_clojure.clj guide. Explaining things to others that are not super clear to myself forced me to read up and experiment like crazy.

I'm by no means an expert, or even much in the field, but there was a time of my life around 10–5 years ago when I was teaching programming to kids and teachers, and I tried to dive into this topic

But I do not have a formal or deeper background in any kind of pedagogy or didactics

Felienne Hermans has been doing research on this for years and has a book with a lot of great info called The Programmer’s Brain

Releases Sept 28 2021 in paperback on Amazon DE. Is it new, @U064X3EF3?

yes, most of it is in available in beta form

she runs a lab that is all about studying how programmers learn to program

https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brain

Thanks. I seem to be able to read most of it from that link. Also ordered it now. Arrives Oct 14-18. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ to tide you over :)

Sounds like newer stuff than what was available few years ago. Or I was just bad at doing literature research 😉

Oh, wow, specialized in spreadsheet coding techniques! Talking about a pragmatic approach

I mean usuall CS researchers seem to start by inventing a language. Ok approximation is another university language that nobody uses >_<

And moving from spreadsheets to other programming languages about the time I got kids. Good good, that saves my self perception 😉

@U064X3EF3 This is badly off topic, but since you linked it you might have bought the book… Are Manning epubs DRM free? They say > Our eBooks come in Kindle, ePub, and DRM-free PDF formats which kinda sounds like other formats do have DRM. And I don't have a kindle, but a kobo

I have have the pdf, so don't know

They are drm free I read them on a kobo too

That's what I figured out, and bought the book when it was still discounted

It’s completely free. 🗽 🍺

Oh nice 😍🍻

Haha, yes, I’m an emoji guy. Free as in liberty. Free as in beer. 😃

Woohoo!!! I am very glad you did this

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