Sub Ubi

My colleague and friend at UT Austin, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, gave our SIGCSE paper to the students in her technical writing course; in working through the paper, they came up with a number of questions that they thought would be nice to have answered.

They’re good questions, and Christian and I will address them on the Transterpreter weblog over the next week (or so). Some answers may also spill over here as well.

The questions that we’ll be addressing over the next n days are:

1. What is your evidence for asserting that programming these robots will appeal to freshman?
2. How is your particular approach to teaching of higher value than teaching languages and techniques that will be of more general value to the students in industry?
3. Have you come across or do you have any evidence that supports the claim that using these teaching methods works better than the teaching methods currently in place?
4. How well will learning to program concurrently in occam-pi prepare students for real world programming in industry?
5. What is next for occam-pi? Do you expect that it will become an industry standard?

I’ll probably bounce back to this space to address some of the general themes in these questions. It should be fun.

Thanks, Lisa!