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Title: Letters to the Editor

Author: Bob Schmidt

Date: 01 July 2020 16:52:27 +01:00 or Wed, 01 July 2020 16:52:27 +01:00

Summary: Two people have written to share their thoughts.

Body: 

Dear Editor,

In my article ‘Thoughts on ‘Computational Thinking’’ (CVu 32(2):8-10, May 2020), I mistakenly said that Cambridge University Faculty of Education’s research project on Computational Thinking is a collaboration with Cambridge Assessment. This is incorrect: Cambridge Assessment are not involved (I misunderstood). The project does hope to develop an assessment tool, but only to inform the improvement of teaching methods [1] and not for grading or segregating children as I feared. While I’d still be concerned about the dangers if such an assessment is misused, I’m pleased to report that’s not their aim.

Silas S. Brown

Reference

[1] Rina P.Y. Lai, ‘The Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Computer-based Competency Assessment of Computational Thinking’, Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education pp.573–574, https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3394002

Dear Editor,

I very much enjoyed Simon Sebright's article on names and their complexity from a modelling perspective, and wanted to bring other readers attention to another classic article about names and their complexity: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

All the best,

Burkhard Kloss

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