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A kind of worked examples for large classrooms | Computing Education Blog edit / delete

Using short code examples to explore variety in teaching; I could see this working well for some of the stuff I teach in AG0700. Note link to material. I also liked the suggestion for a more affordable (although less trendy) alternative to clickers.

to fyp programming teaching ... on 24 August 2014

Programming from Memory | Academic Computing edit / delete

"So I started out with an idea that we program primarily by reasoning, but now I’m wondering if reasoning is actually more of a beginner’s tool, and experts program primarily from memory (and thus faster). If so, perhaps that is why experts often find it hard to teach beginners, because they follow a different mental process?" Some refs to chase.

to comp-ed fyp programming teaching ... on 14 December 2013

Why Bloom filters work the way they do | DDI edit / delete

Good explanation of Bloom filters. (This'd be a nice example of a data structure to explain for FYP.)

to bloom data-structures fyp hash programming ... on 14 December 2013