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Counting Change | And Yet It Moves
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And Yet It Moves. Adventures In Teaching and Technology with Ben Chun. July 15, 2012 / Ben Chun. I’m teaching The Beauty and Joy of Computing (CS 10). This summer for Dan Garcia. At UC Berkeley, which has been really fun. One of the big ideas about programming in the course is recursion. The other two being abstraction. But this is a story about recursion. One of the examples we present. Is taken straight from SICP: the number of ways to make change for some amount of money. The problem, invoking. Have w...
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CS in VN Errata | And Yet It Moves
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And Yet It Moves. Adventures In Teaching and Technology with Ben Chun. March 21, 2013 / Ben Chun. CS in VN Errata. This fascinating look into CS education in Vietnam. From Google engineer Neil Fraser has been making the rounds. It sounds like he did some great work over there and it’s wonderful to hear a first-hand report about a system that’s more successful than ours. Second, When Neil visited my classroom in 2009. Finally, CS homework is not banned by the school board. I don’t know if they e...I want ...
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A Map of What’s Disruptive | And Yet It Moves
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And Yet It Moves. Adventures In Teaching and Technology with Ben Chun. May 21, 2012 / Ben Chun. A Map of What’s Disruptive. There are a number of exciting new projects happening in and around education — an area of our lives that’s widely seen as ripe. This is my attempt to map out some of the initiatives that I think are most exciting, placing them in a context that reveals opportunities and possibilities for collaboration. AFSE – Academy for Software Engineering. Q2L – Quest to Learn. Which opened in f...