Re: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be

2008-01-15 Thread Alan Blackwell
enrolling on this program = becoming great at Java = well-paid employment is not true here, as Michael suspected. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418

Re: PPIG discuss: When agile goes bad....

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Blackwell
, pp. 67-106. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 -- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin

Re: PPIG discuss: A different story about how some software got written

2007-10-01 Thread Alan Blackwell
anything I need. You're trying to sell me an empty box Team of keen programmers: But it's a very nice box ... Look forward to your agile programming story, Ruven - it will almost certainly be repeated to my software engineering class! Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory

Re: PPIG discuss: A different story about how some software got written

2007-10-01 Thread Alan Blackwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Volunteer vs. paid labor. Free product vs. for pay. Volunteer Programmer driven vs. Corporate/Market driven.) Toys for programmers vs. useful solutions for everyone else? :-) Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http

Re: PPIG discuss: teaching kids to program

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Blackwell
) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http

Re: PPIG discuss: Programmer education argument-starter of the week

2007-06-28 Thread Alan Blackwell
drinks), and b) I shall be at a meeting in Switzerland, so won't be at PPIG anyway. I suspect that Betty Edwards might be a far more appropriate model than Jeannette Wing's Computational Thinking syllabus. However, that might explain why I'll never be the head of CS at CMU! Alan -- Alan Blackwell

Re: PPIG discuss: Java and Life-Drawing

2006-02-06 Thread Alan Blackwell
the needs of programmers with a book like UML on the right side of the brain. Any takers? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418

Re: PPIG discuss: Emprical Studies of Programmers?

2005-11-28 Thread Alan Blackwell
-located with PPIG, in order that Americans can attend both events. THis would certainly be the best place within the next year to meet the people who would once have gone to ESP. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21

Re: PPIG discuss: Command line interface usability

2005-04-15 Thread Alan Blackwell
-simplifed here. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 -- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin

Re: PPIG discuss: Children learning to program

2004-10-12 Thread Alan Blackwell
in programming: A rationale for Attention Investment models. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposia on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, pp. 2-10. -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223

Re: PPIG discuss: evaluating programmers

2004-09-14 Thread Alan Blackwell
online: Programming Aptitude Testing as a Prediction of Learning to Program. Markku Tukiainen Eero Mönkkönen, University of Joensuu, Finland http://www.ppig.org/papers/14th-tukiainen.pdf Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users

Re: PPIG discuss: Children learning to program

2004-09-14 Thread Alan Blackwell
projects, proposals or ex-projects - A proposal at Boulder called BigWorld - Maggie Niess' work on spreadsheets in maths http://oregonstate.edu/~niessm/ - The StageCast Creator product http://www.stagecast.com/ -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http

Re: PPIG discuss: Children learning to program

2004-09-14 Thread Alan Blackwell
/ HANDS: Programming for Children http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/ -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 -- PPIG

Re: PPIG discuss: The first ever course in computer science???

2004-01-14 Thread Alan Blackwell
courses prior to this, in particular the seminars at Princeton organised by von Neumann Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418

Re: PPIG discuss: Effect of letter casing on readability

2003-12-04 Thread Alan Blackwell
a typographic designer say, do we think? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 -- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL

Re: PPIG discuss: Effect of letter casing on readability

2003-12-03 Thread Alan Blackwell
needing reimplementing from scratch. Would it be worth the effort of fixing this as a first step toward a non-VT100 program editor? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418

Re: PPIG discuss: Effect of letter casing on readability

2003-12-03 Thread Alan Blackwell
helpfully. Also worth a look. (It doesn't let you set the typeface for different items though - I might mail the developers and see how easy it would be to add that) Would you like to give us a URL and a little more critique of Komodo vs. Emacs? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer

Re: PPIG discuss: cognitive theories and programming

2003-01-09 Thread Alan Blackwell
been active three years. There was a lot more research into cognitive models about 10 years ago, but it was in a lull when I created the index. Revival of interest meant that I just added that entry recently. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http

Re: PPIG discuss: the believability of scientific proof

2001-10-02 Thread Alan Blackwell
there in the big bad world. So how is it relevant to PPIG? Are you suggesting we suffer from: a) barely-relevant experiments; b) marginal products; c) high level of public worry; or d) possible superstition? Shurely shome mishtake? Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University

Re: PPIG discuss: How hard is programming?

2001-05-03 Thread Alan Blackwell
. The reason that the whole programming plans discussion arises is (as you know) that this *is* an attempt to study the factors that affect the design of programming tools, independently of any one language. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http

Re: PPIG discuss: What plan?

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Blackwell
be a good source. Don't have it with me right now. Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED