Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles “A case for feminism in programming language design”, co-authored with Ari Schlesinger. A preprint of the paper can be found at the end of this post, if you want to check it out, or in the ACM digital library. I fully understand that this […]
Programming and direct instruction
Direct instruction is hot! Whereas in the 1990s we heard a lot about discovering learning, we are now slowly seeing a renewed interest in the ‘direct instruction model’ in the Netherlands. Both in language and in mathematics there is a new interest in rote practice of knowledge (“stampen“). As that is not a surprise, since […]
Getting a computer to play Bridge
When I was a teenager, my best friend Hugo invited me to join him on his family vacation with his parents. There was one condition though, I had to learn bridge so we could play every night. His parents tried to get his brother and sister to play, but they denied, so I had to […]
