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 […]
To Scratch or not to Scratch?!
Plugged or unplugged? There is a lot to be said about how to teach programming, and a lot it said, also by me 🙂 One of the questions is whether we should start programming on the computer immediately, or start with programming lesson without the computers, also called unplugged. And of course I also like […]
