Conditionals
Obviously, as I dive into high school teaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about mental models necessary for programming and about how to form these. With 120 students of my own that I have had the opportunity to see through their very first line of code, their first loops, their first conditionals, etc, it’s become [...]
Teaching games with Pygame
I’m ambivalent about the place of games in programming/computer science courses. Some research claims it increases interest and retention, other claims it alienates non-gaming students. I personally would have avoided an introductory course centered on game programming and I worry that women are disproportionately turned off by games. That being said, I’m willing to concede [...]
