weekly reel April 21, 2024
Bonjour bonsoir frendz, and music with Jim Guthrie.
Below OST, by Jim Guthrie (bandcamp.com)
News
Lola Dupre, via waxy.
SMBC: So much of school is pointless, Nice people with ideas about pedagogy.
[fr] Pourquoi la Suisse est pétée de thunes, merci Berthe.
Software
A curious device from 1985 called the “Etak Navigator”, whoaaaa. HN.
Asianometry: The birth of SQL and the relational database.
doom-htop: “the classic DOOM game over htop, the text-based process viewer” 😄. HN.
AI
Majeed Kazemitabaar & Zustin Z. Henley: Learning to code with and without AI, interesting results. Direct links to PDF papers: Studying the effect of AI code generators on supporting novice learners in introductory programming and How novices use LLM-based code generators to solve CS1 coding tasks in a self-paced learning environment.
Games
NeverKnowsBest: The past and present of the “Gamergate” culture wars around video games.