mBot is a robot set powered by an Arduino, but, different from most Arduino sets this one comes with dedicated software based on Scratch like blocks. It is a really lovely set (see my video review here) but, putting it together can be a bit tricky. So this post has some tips to make it […]
Techionista Inspirator Award
Tonight I won the Techionista Award, a new Dutch award for women in tech. You can read the judges report here(Dutch). Sadly I could not pick it up, since I am in London now to speak at NDC. Tomorrow I will be a guest on the Hello World show a great show on code (with a […]
Programming for everyone
Today, I received a a SURF Teaching award for Teacher of the Year! The jury is celebrating my online courses “with a total of 250,000 students in her MOOCs, Hermans’s work reaches far beyond TU Delft”. They also praise my original, innovative and innovative way of teaching that provides a significant contribution to the ICT […]
Salon des Refuses – Code is not just text
This paper describes the current state of code editors, and how they could improve [add link] I am super happy there is a paper about code editors, of course, since mu interest is in unconventional code editors, like Excel and Scratch. When reviewing this paper my attention is mostly drawn not to the described solution but […]
Teaching with Python Koans
Intro How to teach introductory programming? It is a question that keeps many programming teachers occupied and has been a topic of scientific research from the seventies to more recent days. Not only the choice of programming language and the topics of exercises are of interest, but also the form of teaching. Do we try […]
