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Teaching critical thinking | PNAS edit / delete

"In our study, students in the experiment condition were explicitly instructed to (and received grades to) quantitatively compare multiple collected datasets or a collected dataset and a model and to decide how to act on the comparisons." This would be an interesting way to teach performance measurement in CMP201...

to cmp201 critical-thinking science statistics teaching ... on 04 November 2018

Carol Kaye - Tips edit / delete

Carol Kaye's advice to bassists. Lots of good suggestions here.

to bass carol-kaye music teaching ... on 24 October 2018

profsjt: Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles? edit / delete

There's some good discussion in the comments here too. (I'm a graduate of SJT's Haskell course at Kent, and really liked the pure language... but there was a big step up from there to being able to use it for real-world programming.)

to functional haskell teaching ... on 10 December 2017

Imperial College London media library : APL demonstration 1975 edit / delete

Bob Spence demonstrates APL (basic operators, operator composition, function definition) in 1975. While I'm not sure I'd want to give a lecture using a teletype, the ability to scribble on the output with a biro is definitely useful!

to apl retrocomputing teaching ... on 15 November 2017

MCS 494, UNIX Security Holes, Fall 2004 edit / delete

Dan Bernstein's Unix security module. This is a bit dated now, but the material is interesting, and the assessment materials have some nice ideas.

to security teaching unix ... on 10 November 2017

Secure Software Design and Programming: Class Materials by David A. Wheeler edit / delete

to security software-engineering teaching ... on 10 November 2017

Student Teacher Ratings: Males Are Brilliant, Females Are Bossy! edit / delete

"While many feel that students can reliably rate the quality of their teachers and that they should have a strong voice in things such as tenure, there are many studies that suggest that such ratings to evaluate teacher quality are NOT the way to go." A review of publications in this area over the last few years.

to rating research survey teaching ... on 06 April 2017

Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O | Probably Dance edit / delete

... which is a game about programming microcontrollers -- relating this to the real world.

to games microcontroller software-engineering teaching ... on 26 February 2017

The lost art of 3D rendering without shaders edit / delete

This is a great walkthrough -- wish I'd had this when I was writing similar code about ten years ago!

to 3d graphics rendering teaching ... on 26 February 2017

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++, Part 1 – Embedded in Academia edit / delete

A good overview for students.

to c cmp201 correctness language-design safety teaching undefined-behaviour ... on 10 February 2017