I see this argument “why stop students if we can’t check it anyway” so much, so let’s dive in a bit! You can’t stop students from doing X Firstly, we have been saying things like this for decades, if not longer. “Don’t collaborate on homework”, “Do this exercise without a calculator”, or when I was […]

When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Some of those things I filed away, mentally, for future reference, and some of these surface now and then. A recent of that I remembers […]

There is a lot to be said about learning to program, what languages to use, what didactics to use, to learn it in a university or in a boot camp, but one thing I think is similar in all those situations: a strong focus on creating code, very often ‘green-field’ code, starting from a specification […]