Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by DonaldPShimoda on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:07PM (#18812504)

I've tried a few approaches to explaining recursion ("just assume that it works", "trust yourself", "turn off your brain" (the latter of which is from Will Byrd)), but I like "Recursion Fairy" an awful lot. Might have to try that next time.

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by emme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:42AM (#18813113)

We designed a small tool to bring the fairy metaphor even to lower secondary school students. I actually believe it is a very promising approach.

"Nothing to fear but fear itself: introducing recursion in lower secondary schools"

https://aladdin.di.unimi.it/materiali/pubb/2017_latice.pdf

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by DonaldPShimoda on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:35AM (#18815336)

That looks super interesting! I'll take a deeper look when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by emme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:43PM (#18817816)

You're welcome!

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by ff_ on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:09AM (#18813442)

Super interesting! Do you happen to have an Italian translation/version of the paper?

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by emme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:55PM (#18820619)

Just remembered: in fact the work was a master thesis, and the final report is in Italian. http://aladdinsrv.di.unimi.it/archive/pdf/tesi-previtali.pdf

Enjoy!

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by ff_ on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:11AM (#18918623)

Amazing, thanks a lot!

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by emme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:47PM (#18817876)

No, I'm sorry... It was thought in Italian... but written only (more or less) in English :-)

But the supporting tool is actually in Italian:

https://aladdin.di.unimi.it/sw/fatine/

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