Hi Desiderius fans, I can’t imagine anyone else is reading these posts but true fans. I’d like to extend a special welcome to Fred, thanks for favoriting my bridge tweets every weekend 🙂 A while back I was at DDD Europe where I played a real life game of bridge. Unfortunately my phone was dead so […]
Live Hacking with Tomas Petricek [Desiderius part 8]
When I was at NDC, there was a real cool type of session called the “Functional Programming Lab Hour” where you could go to do some functional programming with among others, Tomas Petricek. Initially I went there to ask about a strange null error I was getting in combining C# and F# which apparently has to […]
Flipping the classroom
In previous posts I have written about my motivation for and experiences while making a MOOC. One of the reasons to make a MOOC of course is also to then use this material in traditional, on-campus education. That is what I did this year in my university course IN4400, I “flipped my classroom”. Too lazy […]
Scratch intro material: Lesson 1 (Dutch)
For my recent research adventures into programming for kids, I have made a small intro into Scratch programming. As a good teacher I of course did not like the existing material 🙂 Also, I needed something that introduced all necessary concepts for my experiment. In this lesson we need to help Giga escape a maze […]
Introducing RuleSets [Desiderius Part 7]
Follow up of the Desi story, you might want to read the previous post first. In that post I outlined a few issues that I ran into when implementing a bidding system. In the first bid, you can just look at your cards and make a bid. But for the second bid (the answerer) you need […]