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An excellent overview of what makes C (and the C subset of C++) an unusual programming language. Students: well worth a read.
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Some XP-style programming adages.
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Programming from Memory | Academic Computing
"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.
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free-programming-books/free-programming-books.md at master · vhf/free-programming-books
As the title suggests -- lots of links to books on programming. A bit mixed but there's definitely some good stuff in here.
to ag0700 books etext programming teaching ... on 01 December 2013
Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong
"From basic t tests and standard error calculations to Cox proportional hazards models and geospatial kriging systems, we rely on statistics to give answers to scientific problems. This is unfortunate, because most of us don’t know how to do statistics."
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With links to lots of useful Python packages for scientific computing. Not new, but it's a good survey of just how far it's come.
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Live Programming, Walkabout.js
"I’m proposing to do [generative testing] at the scale of an application, not a routine; to define inputs as any non-deterministic query or listener; and to define failure as some inline assertion error or warning." In Javascript.
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A fairly high tech setup for videoing chalk-and-talk lectures. (Flipping the image is the clever part...)
to chalk-and-talk engineering teaching whiteboard ... on 29 November 2013
>TILT AT WINDMILLS: Teaching IF at UCSC
How to introduce IF in a games course.
Embedded in Academia : Reading Code
A discussion of the importance of reading code.
to ag0700 code programming reading teaching ... on 28 May 2013
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tasty by Adam Sampson.