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Computer science @ Rollins College. Interested in AI, teaching, and old-time guitar. Author of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java: A Project-Based Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2024). dansmyers.github.io
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Spanish Fandango. One of the classic old-time parlor guitar pieces in open-G tuning. Frequently printed in early guitar books as a showpiece, then passed into the folk guitar repertoire.

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New post on some ideas raised at the recent AI@SLAC conference. AI can reduce friction in assignments, but when is that good, and when does it risk making things too easy? Come for the Zone of Proximal Development, stay for the (ridiculous) concept of "lubricating the curriculum".

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Stepping into the Substack world with a longer post on teaching and learning programming in the present era.

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Vintage demonstration slide rule I stole from the Physics department supply room.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

I like this quote from composer Holly Herndon (via Ezra Klein's podcast):

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

We are nearing the end of the half-semester Programming with AI course and I have thoughts. Top-level: "Learning programming" as we've traditionally conceived it is finished. With current AI tools, traditional undergrad CS projects - the historic core work of the major - take maybe 30 minutes. 🧵

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

My son (age 10): "All of Elon's kids have weird names like, 'Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Musk'."

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I had a dream that Sam Altman e-mailed me to say that he hated my textbook. Then, when I went to read it to write my response, I saw that the publisher had replaced the middle chapters with a Starfox comic book.

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Hear me out - there's a 200+ slide powerpoint deck about the state of the gaming industry and it's actually one of the best things I've read this year. www.infinitescroll.us/p/13-things-...

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