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by acbart 1mo ago
Online exams are a pointless waste of time and invasion of privacy, designed to make money without measuring anything. It encourages good people to cheat. If you don't have in-person proctored exams, you are wasting your time.
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by acbart 2mo ago
The closest I ever saw this working was a site called OhYay. It really felt like spaces you could move around in. It wasn't the same as IRL, but it was about as close as I think you could get. Sadly, the company shut down before they c
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by acbart 2mo ago
The best talks at a conference are the ones in the hallway.
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by acbart 2mo ago
I mean, did you read the linked article?
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by acbart 2mo ago
Regarding the changes to your grading weights: https://acbart.github.io/2026/04/19/proctored-grades/ Sounds like 50/50 for the distribution? That means you are okay with a student getting a 40% acro
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by acbart 2mo ago
I'd be interested in seeing the "slop" version for comparison.
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by acbart 3mo ago
Some of the permissions problems related to window.showDirectoryPicker have been frustrating. I'm developing a client-side Python web framework, and during development I need to mount the library locally; I hand off the directory to Py
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by acbart 4mo ago
Yep, I'm starting to hear this more and more. Matches my local data. It's a very massive and visible shift in DFW rates.
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by acbart 4mo ago
The fact that you are talking about Dan Garcia, a huge figure in computing education research and an excellent teacher, and the Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum makes this hilarious. You should look up some details about both.
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by acbart 4mo ago
You'd be amazed at how many students we know are obviously cheating because the logs reveal that they copy pasted a long, complete answer within seconds of opening a problem for the first time, full of sophisticated code constructs tha
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by acbart 4mo ago
In the spring, but not the fall?
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by acbart 4mo ago
It's an incredible curriculum. I have a lot of fond memories myself. I frequently wonder nowadays if it isn't the right approach to force students to stop and think a bit more about "Computer Science" and not just "
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by acbart 4mo ago
It's crazy to me that people think of Python as dynamically typed by default. Strong static typing has been an option in Python for years now, and it should just be the default.
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by acbart 4mo ago
Or "Age of Ultron".
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Visual Studio Code for Education roadmap update(vscodeedu.com)
2 points by acbart 4mo ago|3 comments
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by acbart 4mo ago
> Due to broader product alignment decisions at Microsoft, the Visual Studio Code for Education product roadmap will be coming to an end.
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by acbart 4mo ago
Also for deadlines and social accountability. There's a reason why there was a lot less learning during the pandemic. The simple fact that most online learning advocates don't want to acknowledge is that humans learn better from o
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by acbart 5mo ago
Last time I dove into its research, I found that Math Blaster had no impact on student learning.
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by acbart 5mo ago
The witness was fine, but The Looker was much better.
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by acbart 5mo ago
Tunic is such an incredible experience. If you ever enjoyed the original Zelda and its manual, you simply must play tunic. It captures something incredible. And it has some amazing twists.
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by acbart 5mo ago
Where are you seeing CS classes with increasing enrollment? Everyone I know is saying they're seeing smaller classes. Maybe some upper division from the last swell, but we're all definitely declining this year and last year, from
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by acbart 5mo ago
I agree, I think many people who rail against exams underestimate how important memory is to more complicated skills. How can you debug a complex application if you have to keep looking up every operator and keyword in the language you&#x27
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by acbart 5mo ago
Exams happen all the time in real life. Or rather, situations where you can't just look up fundamental knowledge. Job interviews, presentations, even mundane work tasks - all these require you to know the basics quickly "The basic
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by acbart 5mo ago
So at 50%, someone who uses AI to get 100% of the homework grade will earn a D (sometimes passing) if they can get at least a 20% on your quizzes, and a C (always passing) if they get at least a 40%. Did you make your exam so difficult that
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by acbart 7mo ago
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hpxl9PEAAAAJ&hl=en The researcher seems to be real, at least? Perhaps the quote has not previously been written down?
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by acbart 7mo ago
It makes it easier to make sure it runs right. Code that is easier to make sure is quality code. Code that is hard to make sure is not quality code.
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by acbart 8mo ago
Yes, exactly. I'm having a frustrating time reminding senior teachers of this, people with authority who should really know better. There seems to be some delusion that this technology will somehow change how people learn in a fundamen
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Cocopilot: Self-Updating Repository(acbart.github.io)
2 points by acbart 8mo ago|1 comments
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by acbart 9mo ago
You would be correct, except that this is a published blog post. It may not be in an academic journal, but this person has still conducted human subjects research that led to a published artifact. It was just "playing around" unti
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by acbart 9mo ago
I'm afraid you misunderstand what it means to be "exempt" under the IRB. It doesn't mean "you don't have to talk to the IRB", it means "there's a little less oversight but you still need to file

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