Working with a @raspberrypi pico & #CircuitPython? Here’s an updated tutorial on installing CircUp - a tool for installing & updating libraries. I have all my students use CircUp. It’s great! Hope you find the lesson helpful #csed & #stemed friends. Hack on! https://youtu.be/OD6CqkVaihM?si=3do_SdBY-JULa7xR

#CSed friends looking for @raspberrypi pico #CircuitPython lessons, or anyone wanting to learn #Maker electronics, another lesson of the revised pico-school is up. Includes challenges re: prior lesson on NeoPixels, & new concepts inc variables, naming conventions & more! https://youtu.be/cMrd02IHxaM?si=8g5RHkmOvJbBS89Y

& challenges + #CSed solutions are in the open Google Drive for the course at Gallaugher.com. There is a folder for both my #Maker electronics CircuitPython course & my #SwiftUI course at that URL. Teachers - don’t be shy about using in your courses. It’s for you!

I’m updating the @raspberrypi.com pico lessons for my course on #electronics #making: beginner thru IoT & robotics. We use #CircuitPython. Here is the first lesson youtu.be/d6e6En1OjNQ Will also have a low-cost book & online quiz. Feedback & shared always welcome. #CSed have at it

#Introduction Hashtags, so I can pin this post and take them out of my profile:

#Education #Research #Phd, #BCS #Computing #Teacher #CCT
#CSEd #Programming #BCS
#ActuallyAutistic
#ActuallyADHD
I live with #MultipleSclerosis
#Zen / #Nonduality #Buddhist, weirdly into #Jung
#Research topics:
- #EdAI / #AIEd - #LLMs in #Education
- #CriticalStudies of #EdTech
- #Neurodiversity in #Education, and the experience of ND educators.

The recent global conference run by the DevTech group run by Prof. Marina Bers (Scratch Jr., KIBO) is an example of pioneering work to empower #CSed educators & students being done at @BostonCollege. https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-news/articles/2025/summer/a-palette-of-virtues-international-symposium.html

250+ tech leaders are calling for mandatory K-12 CS & AI education across the US via Unlock8. Essential skills boost earnings & prepare students for an AI-driven future. Let's make tech literacy universal. #CSEd #AIforAll #FutureReady

Recently, an article has been making it's rounds in the #CSEd community on having different intro CS classes for different purposes.

My thoughts here:

https://cestlaz.zamansky.net/posts/pathways/

oh hey my EduPar paper has gone up!

"SFS: A Simple File System for Teaching Parallelism in Computer Systems", the result of a lot of late nights between 2021 and 2023.

https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/sites/default/files/Edupar115.pdf

(permanent author copy:
https://research.owlfolio.org/pubs/2025-sfs.pdf )

#csed

"Shake and Bake: The Ballad of an Accelerometer" a CircuitPython School challenge & solution. #STEMed and #CSed folks, feel free to use for your own courses. Uses a CircuitPlayground Bluefruit which has a built in LIS3DH accelerometer https://youtu.be/kHNb18eZQ3U

#STEMed and #CSed friends or anyone looking for a CircuitPython set of challenge problems. Today’s exam has epic fun referencing Talladega Nights, Chappell Roan, SNL, Steve Kormacki, and much more. Solutions posted soon.
https://youtu.be/sDg-TuBySp8

What are the "essential" skills that computer science students need? I think they need to understand coding, algorithms, and other parts of CS well enough to ask the right questions (of an LLM, search engine, or other human), and understand and validate the answers. Perhaps a useful frame of mind is: "Eventually you will be supervising people or machines. You need basic technical understanding, critical thinking, and project management skills."

#education #pedagogy #CSEd #ComputerScience

Not huge compared to many, but it was nice crossing 1 million views on the YouTube odometer for my primary channel. It’s now focused on SwiftUI https://bit.ly/prof-g-swiftui And the maker/electronics programming (mostly CircuitPython) now has its own channel. #CSed free to all! YouTube.com/@BuildWithProfG

NeoPixel LEDs are cool. Making them twirl up & down a light strip by using a potentiometer? Even cooler. And doing it with python slices using a @RaspberryPi Pico? Super fun! Dig in to the latest lesson of #CircuitPython School. #CSEd friends, STEM goodness for your class https://youtu.be/1-sgErNV-b0?si=jeHuiRYTzMKbF4Q9

Checking in from Scrapyard, San Diego. https://scrapyard.hackclub.com/

#HackClub #Scrapyard #CSed

CSTA San Diego meeting now at Karl Strauss on Scranton. #CSed #CSTA

Hey #Computing teachers! 15 episodes of the #HTTCS podcast are now out in the wild, featuring specialists like Miles Berry, Becci Peters, and Rachel Arthur. pod.httcs.online
#CSED

Get ready for #piday2025 this Friday! For a fun, classroom friendly, pi-related coding activity, check out "Calculating Pi" here: https://tinyurl.com/pidaystemcoding
#piday #iteachmath #csed

#SIGCSETS2025 Keynote day 2 - what belongs in CS #CSED:

https://cestlaz.zamansky.net/posts/sigcse-2025-2/

#CSed & #STEM folks, have you had luck in creating AI exercises for non-programmers? I'd love to hear what you've found useful to create "something" illustrating benefits/risks of using AI as a tool for those w/limited to no code skills. And please, no straight up "AI hate". I understand & have written about ethical concerns, limitations/risks so 'flame on' is not helpful. AI is here & we need to figure out how to teach students with this in our world. Avoid at all costs is not practical advice.