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Why recipes are a poor way of teaching algorithms -- and why they're not

September 12, 2017

Recipes as algorithms is one of the themes I'll be exploring in the next issue of Digital Education, which will be out soon.

Other themes include:

  • Is educational research worth the paper it's written on?
  • Can you lead a subject like Computing by algorithms?
  • What I've been reading in the way of books.
  • Interesting articles.
  • Where to find free high quality photos that are not just of white people.
  • And more!

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