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Felienne Hermans

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Software / engineering practiceAI / MLSociety / politics / economy

’15’20’25
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100 from 19 Sep 2013 to 13 Jan 2025
Posting
now and then
Kind
personal blog
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2025 2

  1. January 13, 2025January 14, 2025
  2. January 6, 2025January 13, 2025

2024 7

  1. October 17, 2024January 13, 2025
  2. September 11, 2024January 13, 2025
  3. Why *not* to use LLMs in computer science education?
  4. Why to use LLMs in computer science education?
  5. Why so fatalistic about AI?
  6. We need a ring theory for sexism (and other injustices)
  7. The case of Claudine Gay was not about plagiarism

2023 7

  1. Teaching is the best job in the world!
  2. Unbelievable AI
  3. The robots are coming…
  4. A Framework for the Localization of Programming Languages
  5. Digital rights for kids
  6. Tools for teaching versus tools for learning
  7. ChatGPT3 and programming education

2022 1

  1. Marathon food

2020 1

  1. Code Reading Club

2019 2

  1. An assorted list of mistakes I made on the tenure track
  2. Forms of notional machines

2018 9

  1. Programming and direct instruction
  2. The tyranny of fun in education
  3. Thinking out of the Box: Comparing metaphors for variables in programming education
  4. Programming for blind kids
  5. Awesome Speakers (that might speak at your conference)
  6. Code Phonology
  7. Experimental Methods in Neuroscience and Cognition – Igor Crk and Andrew Begel
  8. mBot – Building Tips & Tricks
  9. Techionista Inspirator Award

2017 10

  1. Programming for everyone
  2. Salon des Refuses – Code is not just text
  3. Teaching with Python Koans
  4. To Scratch or not to Scratch?!
  5. Do High and Low Performing Student Teams Use Scrum Differently in Capstone Projects? — Maria Paasivaara
  6. Programming is Writing is Programming
  7. Coetry
  8. Teaching Software Engineering Principles to K-12 Students: A MOOC on Scratch
  9. Authors and reviewers’ opinions on double blind @ICSME Industry Track
  10. Going Double Blind @ICSME Industry Track

2016 41

  1. What science says about naming
  2. How to get “strangers” to answer my emails on clarifications or collaborations?
  3. Doctoral symposium questions
  4. Why I am canceling my trip to the US next week
  5. My feminism is one of broken promises
  6. A new skill means seeing new things
  7. Not all opinions
  8. Coding, Reading, and Writing: Integrated Instruction in Written Language — Steven L. Tanimoto
  9. On codes of conduct
  10. Using (Bio)Metrics to Predict Code Quality Online — Sebastian C. Müller
  11. I am going to stop saying I taught myself programming when I was 10 and maybe you should too
  12. Performance versus elegant code, a never ending trade off [Desiderius part #19]
  13. Code for a fitness function for bidding systems [Desiderius part #18]
  14. A fitness function for bidding systems [Desiderius part #17]
  15. Genetic programming on a DSL [Desiderius #16]
  16. F# versus C#: What are the differences?
  17. Intro Genetic Programming [Desiderius part #15]
  18. On leaving your politics at home
  19. History repeats [Desiderius #14]
  20. Do Code Smells Hamper Novice Programming?
  21. Moving the BPN logic from C# to F# [Desiderius part #13]
  22. So you want to tell the scientist about the real world?
  23. Bernie in the streets, Hillary in the proceed’s
  24. A tale on testing [Desiderius part #12]
  25. Feedback on Desiderius [Desiderius part 11b]
  26. Playing in F# [Desiderius part 11]
  27. Simply the best
  28. More playing [Desiderius part 10]
  29. Scratch Intro material: Lesson 2 (Dutch)
  30. Playing the game [Desiderius part 9]
  31. Live Hacking with Tomas Petricek [Desiderius part 8]
  32. Flipping the classroom
  33. Scratch intro material: Lesson 1 (Dutch)
  34. Introducing RuleSets [Desiderius Part 7]
  35. Modeling answers [Desiderius part 6]
  36. Bidding no trump, part deux, or Partial application for the win [Desiderius part 5]
  37. Experiences with making a MOOC
  38. The bidding system [Desiderius part 4]
  39. Why would someone make a MOOC?
  40. Bidding no trump [Desiderius part 3]
  41. Data Types for Desiderius – [part 2]

2015 7

  1. Getting a computer to play Bridge
  2. On changing your mind: Black Pete
  3. People on the internet…
  4. Define your own functions in Excel using names
  5. Expector 1.0.0.7 released
  6. Why feminists are so annoying
  7. VLOOKUP considered harmful

2014 5

  1. A modern day Pompeii: Spreadsheets at Enron
  2. Using a visual language to create better spreadsheets – Bas Jansen
  3. Stop blaming spreadsheets (and take a good look in the mirror)
  4. Spreadsheets: The Ununderstood Dark Matter Of IT (45 minutes version)
  5. Why give great presentations at conferences when you can get away with less?

2013 7

  1. Open letter to NWO
  2. Spreadsheets: The Ununderstood Dark Matter Of IT
  3. The role of Social Media Chair
  4. Presentation techniques – Overview
  5. On bad arguments and stereotypes
  6. New paper: BumbleBee, a tool for spreadsheet formula transformations
  7. Excel Turing Machine

Undated 1

  1. October 10, 2025March 24, 2026