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I would be very grateful for pointers to other recent empirical studies of the impact of AI on programming education that are more rigorous than the gushing slop being tossed around on LinkedIn. I'd be particularly grateful for studies that show negative

I am converting the notes for "Managing Research Software Projects" from McCole to Quarto. Most of the changes have gone smoothly, but I'm stuck on a few things and would appreciate guidance. For reference, the materials are in this repository and you can

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Liz Neeley , I had a chance to run the project closure workshop online yesterday. I think it went pretty well, and I really enjoyed meeting all the participants, but as the saying goes, no lesson survives first contact with

What do you do when teaching programming with LLMs that isn't in this list? Critically review AI output. Have the LLM answer a programming question or explain a concept, then ask learners to review its response collectively for correctness, clarity, and o

Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers' beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545 , we would be very grateful. We w

A week ago I posted this here, on Mastodon, and on LinkedIn: In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn't admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the le

In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn't admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn't admit he was a repulsive human being. I'm seeing

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NOAA's Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors describes ten different kinds of people who can disrupt meetings and gives advice for handling each. I've been a big fan of this taxonomy since I first encountered it several years ago, but going through it again y

I'm co-teaching a lesson for the Carpentries next week about the impact of LLMs on teaching. Here are a few things I've been reading to prepare: Barba2026 Lorena A. Barba and Laura Stegner: "The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI