[Haskell & FP in Education] Welcome and introductions

Fri Dec 21 14:05:31 UTC 2018

Hello everyone,

My name is Sam Frohlich and I am an undergraduate at the University of
Bristol hoping to pursue a PhD on the subject of FP and teaching. I am
currently enjoying being a teaching assistant for an introductory course
into Haskell and then a more advanced course using Haskell to make
compilers which is taught to second years.

While I focus on finishing my undergraduate degree I will quietly stay up
to date with this mailing list, but after I have graduated I hope to become
more involved!

Sam :-)

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> Hello, everyone!  Welcome to education at haskell.org.
>
> This mailing list grew out of discussions at ICFP 2018 about creating a
> space for collaboration and discussion of using Haskell and other
> functional programming languages in general education.  To jump-start that
> process, I'd like to invite everyone to introduce themselves and
> specifically share your goals, opportunities, vantage point, and
> interests.  The hope is that we'll be able to sort ourselves into
> compatible interests and ideas, to kick off more detailed discussion or
> collaborations.
>
> Some suggested questions to spur discussion:
>
> - What education-related projects are you involved in, or have you been
> involved in previously?
> - What other projects do you find exciting, intriguing, or worthy of
> emulation?
> - On the other hand, what projects or conversations should be happening,
> but are not happening yet?
> - Is there anything specific that you are definitely looking for from this
> space?
> - What vision do you have for functional programming in education?  That
> is, what general principles guide your thinking?
>
> I will reply with my own answers, and encourage you to do the same.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> P.S. I realize this email is long past due.  Between my job as a software
> engineer, volunteer teaching, and recent development on CodeWorld, I have
> again fallen into the trap of over-committing myself and falling behind on
> outside commitments.  I hope that late is still better than never.
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> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:11:34 -0800
> From: Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com>
> To: Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com>
> Cc: education at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: [Haskell & FP in Education] Welcome and introductions
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> Here's a loosely collected bundle of thoughts in response to a small part
> of this.
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> I'm curious about FP at various levels of education. I know Haskell is or
> has been used for various university courses. Is there any sort of existing
> network of professors that share Haskell (or Racket, etc) teaching
> resources and materials? Are there resources that make sense to share
> between K-12 teachers and higher ed teachers? (e.g. how well does How To
> Design Programs work for teaching kids?)
>
> A related topic on my mind is BayHac and similar events. We discussed the
> possibility of having some younger people attend, but ended up not
> following through on that and attendance was mostly (entirely?) adults, as
> usual. I'm wondering if there is value in trying to make some part of
> BayHac more accessable and appealing to a wider audience (incl young people
> and people new to programming), or whether this would dilute the focus of
> the event too much and end up serving both young and old audiences poorly.
>
> I bring up BayHac to this list because I see it not just as a "let's get
> together and hack" event, but more like a "let's get together and share
> knowledge" event, where the knowledge share ideally enables people to get
> hacking on something. And pointing people to educational resources like
> codeworld is exactly the sort of thing that should be going on at BayHac,
> so that those with the desire to learn are empowered to continue doing so
> for long after the event is over.
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 14:20 Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello, everyone!  Welcome to education at haskell.org.
> >
> > This mailing list grew out of discussions at ICFP 2018 about creating a
> > space for collaboration and discussion of using Haskell and other
> > functional programming languages in general education.  To jump-start
> that
> > process, I'd like to invite everyone to introduce themselves and
> > specifically share your goals, opportunities, vantage point, and
> > interests.  The hope is that we'll be able to sort ourselves into
> > compatible interests and ideas, to kick off more detailed discussion or
> > collaborations.
> >
> > Some suggested questions to spur discussion:
> >
> > - What education-related projects are you involved in, or have you been
> > involved in previously?
> > - What other projects do you find exciting, intriguing, or worthy of
> > emulation?
> > - On the other hand, what projects or conversations should be happening,
> > but are not happening yet?
> > - Is there anything specific that you are definitely looking for from
> this
> > space?
> > - What vision do you have for functional programming in education?  That
> > is, what general principles guide your thinking?
> >
> > I will reply with my own answers, and encourage you to do the same.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> > P.S. I realize this email is long past due.  Between my job as a software
> > engineer, volunteer teaching, and recent development on CodeWorld, I have
> > again fallen into the trap of over-committing myself and falling behind
> on
> > outside commitments.  I hope that late is still better than never.
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