PyConSG Education summit 2019

25th June 2019 9 - 5pm

** Opening address speaker: Dr Liew time for CdEd APAC? how young should we introduce computational thinking how to introduce AI in curriculum

** Introduction to Vivita speaker: Lee Hoi Leong

for P3 and above

“No curriculum, no teacher”

• student lead activities

“The world is programmable. No Limit,”

• you can be the change maker

“Education is a right, not a privilege”

• courses are free to attend

Unlearning learning community meetup

• updating education in SIngapore and beyond

** Professional software development, can it be taught? speaker: Ivan Zimine

hard to grow and maintain software

spec/design first

professional = responsible for outcome

software borrows terms from construction construction is limited by gravity

complexity = “software gravity”

how to handle complexity

• invest in communication and social skills
• invest in simple tools and pragmatic development practices

Programs are written for people to read, SICP

• proper naming
  • use intention revealing names
  • avoid disinformation
  • use pronouceable names

Example: refactored fizzbuzz

• is_divisible_by
• early return

Linguistics is more important for programming than math

• how to get feedback on code readability?

Specification

• executable specification
  • cucumber
• specification by example
• communication with the stake holders to build the right product

Pair programming

Tools

• plain text
• command line
• text editor

Test driven development

• test, code, refactor
• a design tool
• tests as specification
• keep code tight, just to solve the test

Can it be taught?

• The pragmatic programmer
• sofware craftsmanship singapore

** Transferring python skills for game-based learning environments to real-world environment speaker: Chris Boesch

Journey of a Sec 2 student Yan

• low barrier for participation
  • solve 1 level
• choice of different activities

Game based via Code combat

• clear goals
• hints
• feedback

Real world problems via Jupter notebook

• provides scaffolding
• not too much text
• dealing with Python errors
• Google colab
  • create your own activity
  • share with other students

Towards real-world problems

• NLP to analyze feedback questions
• identify drawn numbers
• play pictionary
  • draw something until the AI recognizes it

Multiplayer levels in code combat

• finals is done in pair-programming in 2 hours

** Solving operational challenges while teaching speaker: Lawrence Putra

Mentoring a group of 3 from Techladies

Challenge is to make the sorting process for IAmTalented and CollaborateSG more efficient

Breaking down the challenge into steps

• learing how to manipulate excel in code
• read execl in code
• various data types in excel
• how to find the answer yourself

** Developing students’ computational thinking through interest driven activities speaker:

Integrate mathematics and computing

• Poly’s four steps

** Google colab and Kaggle for data science/AI education speaker: Chen Weiqiang

colab = hosted Jupter notebook share with others

use it to create tutorials

modelling market share of taxi using recurrence relations

• part of further mathematics

use sliders to change the parameters dynamically and update the plot

AI for students by AI Singapore