Don't teach coding : until you read this book /: until you read this book. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lindsey D. Handley, Stephen R. Foster.
• Authors: Handley, Lindsey; Foster, Stephen, 1985-
• Contents: About the Authors xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Who is This Book For? 3 Let’s Do It! 3 Chapter 1: Prologues 5 A Wizard’s Tale 5 The Sorting of Wizards 5 The Call to Action 10 A Language Without 10 Our Strange Protagonists 10 (cons 'Apple 'Soft) 13 Tower of Babel 15 Confessions 16 Penances 17 A Language Within 17 Installing Languages 17 Writing in Tongues 19 Kiss, Gift, Poison 20 Nova: Va o no va? 22 Hello, Hello, Hello 23 Languages Without 25 Tongueless Languages 27 Babbage’s Calculus Club 29 Diffs 31 Finite Descriptions of the Infinite 31 Bottling the Human Will 33 Machines Anchor Language 35 Now That It’s Out of Our System 39 Languages Within 40 Signed Languages 42 Silent Battles 43 Our Strange Citizens of Broca’s Area 49 Chapter 2: Beginnings 51 A Wizard’s Tale 51 The Leap of Faith 51 The Forge 53 They Slept 56 A Language Without 56 Syntax – Building Materials 59 A Meta-Linguistic Meander 60 Back to Syntax 62 Semantics: “When your eyes see this, do this with your mind . . . ” 63 Checking Assumptions 65 We Have a “Language.” Now What? 66 A Language Within 66 Cats 66 Stories and Back Stories 71 Ab(stract) 74 Shortest Path: Dijkstra to You 75 A Brave New Syntax 79 Languages Without 81 The Unwritten, Unwritable Backstory 83 Three Old Friends: Language, Math, Algorithms 84 Algorithms of Antiquity 88 A Brief Story of Stories 90 Languages Within 91 Foreign Language: A Friend, Perhaps a Mentor 96 Zapping Broca’s Area 97 More Monkey Business 98 Chapter 3: Middles 101 A Wizard’s Tale 101 Purgatory 101 Descent 103 Ascent 105 A Language Without 106 (Stories (Within Stories)) 106 Order Word 111 Easing the Transition 113 Magic Tricks 114 A Language Within 122 Implicit Learning 122 Animation 122 Napoleon’s Risky Maneuver 126 Noughts and Crosses 131 Round Stories; Square Frames 132 Languages Without 133 Illusions of Mind 133 Dactylonomy: Digits to Digital 134 Externalization 137 The Spark of the Pascaline 139 The Best of all Possible Languages 141 Automatons 144 King Ludd 147 The Song for the Luddites 149 Languages Within 152 The Machine Within 152 Potions for the Mind 152 Science and Schools 154 Mindset 156 Metacognition 158 Deliberate Practice 160 Second Language Acquisition 160 Krash Course 162 Fluency and Expertise 164 What It Feels Like to Upgrade Your Own Wetware 166 Meta-teaching 168 A Universal Educational Language 169 The Loop of Being Human 173 Chapter 4: Ends 175 A Wizard’s Tale 176 Learn to Teach; Teach to Learn 176 Montage 178 Loop Back 183 The Beginning 184 A Language Without 184 Our Road Thus Far 184 Definitions 185 Becoming the Machine 187 Loops 188 Mad Libs 190 Turing Completeness 191 Ifs 196 Extending Language 199 A Language Within 200 So lernt man lernen: Der Weg zum Erfolg 200 Designing Your Deck 207 The System 210 Unburdening Yourself 213 Parting Exercises 214 Languages Without 215 The Flood and the Tower 215 Soft is the New Hard, and the Old Hard 216 Abstraction’s Arrow 218 Languages Within 224 The Education Bottleneck 224 History’s First Coding Students 225 (environment (mind (fluency))) 228 Co-Authoring the EdTech Story 233 Babbages and Lovelaces of Education 238 This Final Section Has No Name 240 Conclusion 241 Next Steps: Learning Sciences 241 Next Steps: Languages to Learn 242 Next Steps: Coding 242 Next Steps: Software Engineering 242 Next Steps: Hacker Culture 243 Next Steps: History 243 Naming Things: Computer Science 244 Naming Things: Philosophy of Mind 245 Naming Things: Learning Science 245 Thank You 246 Bibliography 247 Index 259
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.13; Computer programming -- Study and teaching
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119602637; 9781119602644
• Related ISBNs: 9781119602620
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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