rly. Help calm their restive minds - register
NOW.
website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ppig2011/
NB I'm away next week: queries to Alistair Edwards, please, the co-
chair.
(Please forward)
Thomas Green
co-chair
Visiting Professor
University of Leeds, University of York
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Kevlin Henney wrote:
To really demonstrate autoboxing you need to allow the compiler to
convert from int to Integer:
Integer x = 1000;
Integer y = 1000;
However, if you are after interesting counterintuitive corner cases,
change the constant to 100:
Integer x = 100;
Integer y =
On 19 Mar 2011, at 09:55, Stefano Federici wrote:
what I claim is the easiest programming environment ever designed so
far).
Er, yes. You might need to restrict what you mean by
'programming' . I regard using spreadsheets as programming. But
Scratch is very good at its job, to be su
How deeply do you want to go into this?
1) If you're trying to set up balanced groups for a study, then you
only need to know about factors that will give a sizeable noise level
if they are not balanced across groups. That's what I thought you
wanted to do, am I right?
2) If you want to k
what they say, not what I said.
Thomas Green
On 18 Mar 2011, at 14:40, Stefano Federici wrote:
Dear collegues,
I want to thank you the list for the precious suggestions about the
evaluation of programming environments.
Now I have an urgent need to know which (if any) are the specific
test
On 9 Mar 2011, at 12:24, alex wrote:
Having layout for unconstrained
secondary notation is of course also very valuable for human-human
communication.
You bet.
I wonder whether the way that spoken English sometimes uses pitch and
stress to emphasize particular parts of an utterance ("No, i
And where do people want to put Inform 7, the interactive fiction
language that is a subset of English and has some semantic inference
built in?
http://inform7.com/
Is it a programming language? a restricted natural language? both?
neither?
Thomas
On 4 Mar 2011, at 17:17, Kari Laitinen
On 1 Mar 2011, at 14:29, Stefano Federici wrote:
Do you have any references to similar evalutations?
Now that Alan and Chuck have made the text of 'Psychology if
Programming' available again, you might start there. Also look for
work by Jorma Sajaniemi in Finland, and for lots of work by
, C such that your
theory says A > B > C. The statistical power is much better.
Don't forget to talk to the people afterwards and get their opinions.
Sometimes you can find they weren't playing the same game that you were.
Good luck
Thomas Green
On 1 Mar 2011, at 11:20,
Dear all
Chris Roast has asked me to forward this to you all. Please reply to
him, not me! Hope to see lots of you there, though.
Thomas Green
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Roast, Chris"
Date: 22 February 2011 16:17:13 GMT
To: 'Maria Kutar' , Thomas Green >
y set off on the wrong track and never recovered.
Did you debrief them about strategies, or collect their working notes,
or anything like that? If so, you could check that out.
Thomas Green
On 16 Feb 2011, at 18:46, Meredydd Luff wrote:
Hi Russel,
I did a pilot study along those lines a c
.
7) Don't forget to talk to the participants afterwards and ask what
they thought, how they did the tasks, and so on. You may find some
surprises - I certainly have done.
Can't think of anything else just now but open to questions. Good luck
and make sure the results are m
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Thomas Green
wrote:
Hi Charles,
That would be fantastic. If your student can really face doing that,
she or he would earn much gratitude. Maybe PPIG or VLHCC would give
him/her a reduced registration fee at the next meeting as a
reward.. (Don't
ouple weeks.
Let me know if there's a good reason why I shouldn't do this. :)
Chuck
Charles D. Knutson, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.
Brigham Young University
www.charlesknutson.net
www.internetsafetypodcast.com
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On May 25, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Thomas
masses. I would guess that
there are others on the list who are interested, but are in lurker
mode.
Thank You!
From: Thomas Green
To: Chris Bogart
Cc: Alan Blackwell ; ppig-discuss-list@open.ac.uk
Sent: Sun, May 23, 2010 3:14:14 AM
Subject: Re: Electronic contents/chapters of the Psych of Prog
I'll try to get my parts of the Psych of Prog book online asap.
Delighted that it's still of interest. I'll enquire whether
Jean_michel Hoc can do the same.
Thomas Green
On 21 May 2010, at 19:20, Chris Bogart wrote:
My university library doesn't have it, but the catalog
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