10.6084/m9.figshare.3407779.v1
Lorena A. Barba
Lorena A.
Barba
PyCon2016 Keynote
figshare
2016
speech acts
open source
collaboration
system design
Coding and Information Theory
Computer Software not elsewhere classified
Computer-Human Interaction
Human Information Behaviour
Open Software
2016-05-31 19:05:47
Presentation
https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/PyCon2016_Keynote/3407779
Keynote delivered at the opening of PyCon 2016, Portland, OR (May 30, 2016):<div><br></div><div>“Beyond “Learning to Program” — Education, Open-Source Culture, and Structured Collaboration in Language”</div><div><br></div><div><div>My theme has to do with the open-source culture, and the impact it can have in education—beyond a narrative of simply “learning to code,” and also beyond the hijacked buzzword of “computational thinking” </div><div><br></div><div>The argument goes somewhat like this: we have this open-source culture that emerges from a community; and this culture developed a language that allows us to coordinate with each other to create value together. </div><div><br></div><div>How? Because “people act through language.” </div></div><div>(Winograd & Flores, 1987)</div><div><br></div>