This post has been in my drafts for over a year, and I keep revising it and pondering more about it, but I think the time to publish is now, since I have also been talking about this in talks. In fact, I now say that Hedy has three main points that differentiate it from […]
ChatGPT3 and programming education
Last summer I was in a panel about programming education, where my statement was: “The tyranny of autograders should be stopped” and as they say “be careful what you wish for” because with ChatGPT3 I might get my wish! And I wanted to write a blog post accompanying the panel forever, and now that people […]
Marathon food
[This is a post for April Cools, a supercool idea by Hillel Wayne to write a post about something that we normally don’t blog about.] When I started to train for my first marathon, I read a lot about shoes, heart rate, water intake, but not really a lot about… food. Doing half marathons, I […]
Code Reading Club
There is a lot to be said about learning to program, what languages to use, what didactics to use, to learn it in a university or in a boot camp, but one thing I think is similar in all those situations: a strong focus on creating code, very often ‘green-field’ code, starting from a specification […]
An assorted list of mistakes I made on the tenure track
Note: This post was originally written in December 2019, right before the start of the pandemic. The original post can still be found below. In between then and now, I hardly did any blogging. There were many reasons for that (the pandemic, Hedy taking off) but the main reason was also this post series not […]
