Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers - Allison Kaptur

Motivating Adult Learners by Introducing Programming Concepts with Scratch

Novice programmers usually fail to combine abstract concepts and knowledge into program design, even though they know the syntax and semantics of individual statement. Adult novice programmers with little computer background knowledge might face more ...

How to keep learning in the age of LLMs | Oğuzhan Olguncu

Notes on how I keep learning as a programmer in the age of LLMs

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.

Learnable Programming

Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?

The traits of a proficient programmer

Bridging the gap between competence and proficiency

The Most Important Non-Programming Skills for Programmers

Skills for programmers that are so much more important than any language, library, or framework

On learning programming in an age of LLMs

Open answers to a reader's letter.

Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software…

Callysto: Bringing Jupyter and Computational Thinking to the K-12 Curriculum

Cybera and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences are participating in the new national CanCode program, to develop coding and digital skills from kindergarten to grade 12.  With the launch of the Callysto project, we are creating tools and frameworks that help teachers bring computational thinking into their math, science, social sciences, and humanities courses - giving students the analytical skills needed to comprehend the digital world. Leveraging the Jupyter 'All-in-One' Science Platform to put friendly yet powerful compute tools in classroom settings, we are creating showcase modules and workshop training for K-12 teachers to incorporate data and computing into the broad curriculum.  At this presentation, you will learn about how Callysto will:  Bring computational thinking to classrooms through K-12 teacher training  Create opportunities to participate in free workshop training sessions and content creation  Help K-12 teachers gain public recognition for participating in this educational training project Note: This presentation is related to our 2017 BCNET presentation on "Bringing The Thunder: Deploying Jupyter Notebooks For Research, Education, And Innovation." View Slidedeck

Computational Thinking for All Students

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google(Crossposted on the Google for Education Blog, and the the Huffingt...

Reading

Carl Kolon's favorite articles about programming.

Small Programming Tricks

A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take.

The education of a computer