(It seems like a nice spot as well)

hey <!channel> @Garth Goldwater and I are planning the next FutureOfCoding meetup and we like the evening of July 23rd (a Tuesday). We’re exploring meeting spaces at maker/hacker/community spaces in Boston and Cambridge. If you’re available and want to attend, could you comment on this post and share the city you’d be coming from (if you’re comfortable doing so). While this meetup will almost surely be in Cambridge / Boston (just to get the ball rolling!), we want to survey and understand where people are coming from so we can move the location next time. To avoid having perfect be the enemy of good, we’re going to keep it quite lightweight. No meetup page, no email list to join, nothing. Just comment here if you’re interested in joining and you’re available 🙂

hey <!channel> Garth and I just finished planning the meetup I described above 🙂 Next Tuesday, July 23rd from 6 - 9 PM in Kendall Square. This document has all the details you need: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVJaqVmaChJFQPbsTWWRApVy0BEjSzq8FIETixgQRGI/edit# Note: If you want to join us, you’ll need to give us your name so the concierge can let you in. Please comment on this thread with your name (they may check ID’s, so something that ~matches the name there) or DM me if you’re more comfortable!

<!channel> hey y’all. We enjoyed meeting everyone who showed up and @Garth Goldwater and I have started to think about the next one. Based on the feedback from the first meeting, it seemed like we wanted to try a mix of: - Showcase work in progress stuff (or just neat demos of things you’ve found online you’re inspired by) - Discuss a specific topic, with links to reading materials beforehand so everyone can get context (and people who have 0 interest in the topic can feel comfortable skipping) I think the next step here is to get topic suggestions for everyone for the Discuss piece. Then, we can do a quick Slack poll and converge on a topic (or 2!) If you’d like to propose a topic for discussion, please comment on this thread!

Tuesday, Sep 10 - 1-2PM in 32-G449, the Kiva Room in the MIT Stata Center Title: Learning Programming at Scale: Code, Data, and Environment Abstract: Modern-day programming is incredibly complex, and people from all sorts of backgrounds are now learning it. It is no longer sufficient just to learn how to code: one must also learn to work effectively with data and with the underlying software environment. In this talk, I will present three systems that I have developed to support learning of code, data, and environment, respectively: 1) Python Tutor is a run-time code visualization and peer tutoring system that has been used by over five million people in over 180 countries to form mental models and to help one another in real time, 2) DS.js uses the web as a nearly-infinite source of motivating real-world data to scaffold data science learning (UIST 2017 Honorable Mention Award). 3) Porta helps experts create technical software tutorials that involve intricate environmental interactions (UIST 2018 Best Paper Award). These systems collectively point toward a future where anyone around the world can gain the skills required to become a productive modern-day programmer. Bio: Philip Guo is an assistant professor of Cognitive Science and an affiliate assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. His research spans human-computer interaction, programming tools, and online learning. He now focuses on building scalable systems that help people learn computer programming and data science. He is the creator of Python Tutor (http://pythontutor.com/), a widely-used code visualization and collaborative learning platform. So far, over five million people in over 180 countries have used it to visualize over 100 million pieces of Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, and Ruby code. Philip’s research has won Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at the CHI, UIST, ICSE, and ISSTA conferences, and an NSF CAREER award. Philip received S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. His Ph.D. dissertation was one of the first to create programming tools for data scientists. Before becoming a professor, he built online learning tools as a software engineer at Google, a research scientist at edX, and a postdoc at MIT. Philip’s website http://pgbovine.net/ contains over 600 articles, videos, and podcast episodes and gets over 750,000 page views per year.

What if software were Different? From Applications to Computational Media. Seminar Series: HCI Seminar Series 2019 Speaker: Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose Speaker Affiliation: Aarhus University Host: Arvind Satyanarayan Date: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Location: Kiva Room (32-G449) Abstract: The concept of applications is ubiquitous and completely taken for granted in modern computing. Software doesn’t have to be synonymous with applications, and there is great potential to be unlocked if we break out of them. In this talk, I will argue for a renewed focus on developing computational media and show efforts we have undertaken to demonstrate how software can be made differently. I will, among other things, present our work on Webstrates (webstrates.net), its authoring environment Codestrates (codestrates.org), and a data visualization environment built using these called Vistrates (vistrates.org). Bio: Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose is an associate professor in the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University. Clemens has worked as a postdoc at Computer Science, Aarhus University and at Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud. He has furthermore spent a year as a user interface specialist in the software industry. Clemens received his PhD in Computer Science in 2009 from Aarhus University supervised by prof. Susanne Bødker. Clemens’ main interest is the fundamentals of interactive computing, particularly to support and understanding computing with multiple devices and multiple people. Many of his ideas are crystallised into the Webstrates platform (webstrates.net), which he leads the development of.

Oh no! I can't make it actually. I have a Jewish holiday dinner with family then 😭

I'm home for the holidays till mid-jan. Are there any plans for a meetup? would love to meet you guys in person 😄

@Max Krieger How long are you around for?

I just send the CIC an email asking for a room Wednesday, March 4 from 5-7pm. I'll confirm when we have the room. Hopefully that date and time works for everyone - I just picked a day and time similar to our last meetup.

Yo I'm in Boston Friday through the following Sunday (15th) if anyone wants to meet up. I get it's a short gap from the meetup tomorrow though^^

@Srini K it looks like I will not be able to make my way to the meeting tonight. I was looking forward to meeting you and the other folks.

https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/ on HN right now

https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/743966978361036800?s=20 this is the only reference to hyperTIES i could find so please let me know if there’s more stuff i can look at somewhere!

would that help @Max Krieger?

APL Idea dump thread

The APL symbols keep swimming around in my head as I read it

https://kevinlynagh.com/reltron/ "casually make joins" @Garth Goldwater

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what is malloc homework? lol

@Max Krieger @jhaip @François-René Rideau @Garth Goldwater let’s plan for next Saturday?

cc @Garth Goldwater @François-René Rideau @Max Krieger ^

👋 I would be interested in a meetup here! I've met @Garth Goldwater but I don't think anyone else yet.

@ellenchisa @jhaip @Garth Goldwater yo! I’m back from Greece (2 weeks ago), do we wanna try to meetup in the coming weeks? 🤔

for the record i do live in baltimore now and i would encourage everyone to check out cities they're not from that have less repressive real estate situations……. but regardless let me know about boston meetups in the future please! im still back in boston pretty often (and maybe more now that i’m settled)

any chance y’all are around @ellenchisa @Max Krieger?

FoC Boston “Meetup” When: Saturday at 10 AM Where: Cafe Nero at Porter T See y’all there! @jhaip @ellenchisa and of course anyone who sees this and wants to join! Text me at 972.369.4678 for last minute coordination etc

heh - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325122556843?hash=item4bb2d083ab:g:6ooAAOSwrrZiQlpV&amp;autorefresh=true @jhaip I’m sure this will end up going for $1k+ cuz its the epson projector and the lf1 system…

woot @Max Krieger! For anything in particular? Your family is around here right?

I’m free this Saturday morning if we want to try to meet! @Max Krieger @ellenchisa @jhaip @Jon Tran Also am likely available Sunday morning