oUC4: Learning and Teaching Programming: Stories, Hacks, and Metaphors
Kasia Banas, Brittany Blankinship, Pawel Orzechowski
We will use this session to discuss how we teach programming and related skills to our students who likely did not choose to study Psychology in order to learn how to code or do statistics. We believe that even though those students did not arrive at university with the expectation of becoming programmers, we have the opportunity to instil enthusiasm by teaching with joy and kindness. Since students are the researchers of tomorrow, equipping them with these skills will improve the quality and reproducibility of Psychological science in the long term. We will be looking for your case studies, stories, tips and tricks, experiences, metaphors, and materials.
The organizers are writing an edited book around "Teaching Programming Across Disciplines"
[ https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/book/ ]. If participants would like to keep working on their contributions after SIPS, their output could become a chapter for this book.
Unconference
Track 1 (Wed)