Brian Danielak @capbri@qoto.org

@amyjko "Eduroam: Instead of fast internet somewhere, how about slow internet everywhere!"

@gvwilson I teach a lab-based introduction to engineering design, and during the last ten minutes of class we blast this song to remind students it's time to clean up. I never get tired of it.

@gruber if the original Yankee Stadium is the second-finest ballpark ever built, what's number one?

@gvwilson I get that ArduinoC is low-level and possibly needs to be to be able to handle directly reading and writing to pin, but come on. My students shouldn't need to learn pointers just to de-complexity their repeated instructions.

@gvwilson For many students in my class, this is their introduction to programming. I hate to think they'd walk away feeling like programming is about repeating a bunch of instructions over and over, instead of, to paraphrase Abelson and Susman, the act of managing complexity.

I teach an Introduction to Engineering Design course where students program Arduino-powered robots to autonomously navigate an obstacle course. I keep wishing I could have a conversation with @gvwilson because I think ArduinoC actively encourages *bad* software engineering practices. Yesterday I had to tell a student that it would be more trouble than it was worth to try to extract repeated behavior into something like a function, and my heart sank.

@kjhealy @jennybryan Thanks for the insightful blog post! I was curious, though: which function takes that argument?

@kjhealy whoaaaa. It's like a Fourier Transform |> filter but so much cooler.

@amelia WOOOOHOOO! A thousand congratulations!

@gvwilson https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/academics/departments/dfe/ma-learning-engineering.html