Monthly Archives: July 2022

Phrases in computing that might need retiring

Posted on 2022-07-25 by Graham

The upcoming issue of the SICPers newsletter is all about phrases that were introduced to computing to mean one thing, but seem to get used in practice to mean another. This annoys purists, pedants, and historians: it also annoys the … Continue reading →

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On entering programming in 2022

Posted on 2022-07-11 by Graham

I recently taught an introduction to Python course, to final-year undergraduate students. These students had little to zero programming experience, and were all expected to get set up with Python (using the Anaconda environment, which we had determined to be … Continue reading →

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