Computer Science Unplugged - socratesbe/socratesbe_15 GitHub Wiki

Tools for Teaching

• Soft(ware)Ball - simple design, YAGNI, re-use, algorithms
• RoboRally - iterative development, continuous improvement, algorithms, feedback. The game is based on the RoboRally game by WotC and Daniel Brolund’s ‘The Empirical Process’ session.
• Alligator Eggs - lambda calculus
• The Penny Game - queuing
• TDD and Refactoring with lEGO - TDD
• The Bottleneck Game - Queues, bottlenecks, optimization. I have a simpler version ("The Chocotoff Games", based on the Matchstick Game) that explains some of the concepts in 2x15 mins, but it's not described online
• TDD Concurrent code without computers - TDD, Composition, separation of concerns, Communicating Sequential Processes, Constraint Satisfaction Problems (maybe too much for one session ;-) )
• Test Doubles on Stage - Unit testing, mocks, stubs, simulators
• Computer Science Unplugged - different IT topics explained for schoolchildren with simple props

Ideas

• LEGO for everything

Open Questions

• Tell, don't ask
• Small commits
• Separating structure and behaviour in functional programming
• Liskov Substitution Principle
• Delayed vs. fast feedback
• Measure, don't guess
• Transactions