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Matthias Hauswirth @mathau

Associate Professor at USI in Lugano, Switzerland. Working at the intersection of Programming Languages and Computing Education.

Joined June 2010
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Über 600 Professorinnen und Professoren von Schweizer Universitäten, Fachhochschulen und Pädagogischen Hochschulen, aus allen Sprachregionen der Schweiz und aus einer Vielzahl von Fachgebieten stehen ein für einen starken medialen Service public. Auch ich wissenschaft-fuer-den-servic…
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Posting this here because, unlike that other outfit run by Mr. Musk, X should still allow free speech.
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US election outcome: 94% to 6% — if the Swiss had to vote (42081 votes, non-representative poll on news web site)
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From the field trip with the @USI_INF students, exploring the three castles of #Bellinzona to gather ideas for the visual components to build for the "Program Your Own Castle" @hourofcode tutorial: pytamaro.si.usi.ch/hoc/castl…
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pytamaro@pytamaro
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It’s #CSEdWeek at @USI_university ! We are celebrating with an #HourOfCode in @PyTamaro with #Python, entirely developed by our students. Check it out: pytamaro.si.usi.ch/hoc/castl… @TheOfficialACM @USI_INF Fortezza #Bellinzona
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A glimmer of hope. nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/po…

Divided by Politics, a Colorado Town Mends Its Broken Bones (Published 2023)

Two years after death threats and aspersions roiled little Silverton, the town has found a semblance of peace and a lesson for a ruptured nation.

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Vorschlag an @StatSchweiz und @alain_berset: Könnten Sie die von den Kantonen gelieferten Rohdaten und den Source Code zur Berechnung der Endresultate veröffentlichen? Wäre vorbildlich und gut für's Vertrauen.
Mark Balsiger@Mark_Balsiger
25 Oct 2023
Das Bundesamt für Statistik hat sich bei den Parteistärken verzählt. (Sitzverteilung bleibt.) Das ist peinlich, keine Frage, aber hey, eine Staatstragödie sollten wir nicht daraus machen! In a nutshell: - SVP-Plus ist geringer - FDP vor Mitte - MINT, so wichtig! #WahlCH23 #BfS
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Any guess?
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28 Aug 2023
#womeninSTEM: 8 high school and middle school teachers learned to teach programming with PyTamaro (pytamaro.si.usi.ch/summeraca…). How many were women?
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pytamaro@pytamaro
11 Jul 2023
Thanks to a didactics innovation grant we got to release the dozens of "Visual Problem Decomposition" == "Python Programming" activities we developed and used in years of CS teacher training: pytamaro.si.usi.ch #CSEd #STEM #Python #PyTamaro @USI
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Must see: Trevor Noah and Roger Federer's "train ride of a lifetime" through Switzerland youtu.be/5JK7vjVaIvo
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USI Faculty of Informatics@USI_INF
21 Mar 2023
📣 Are you enrolled in a (non-USI) Master's programme? Would you like to work on a research project with us & apply it towards your thesis? Our MaRS Scholarship programme supported by @HaslerStiftung is accepting applications for 2023! Projects, T&C ⬇️ inf.usi.ch/en/feeds/10506
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A-Z of Teaching Intro Programming in Schools@a2zk12cs
14 Mar 2023
#K12CS #Teachers: Are you ready to take your learning/PD w/ @a2zk21cs to the next level⁉️ 🚨📢We are thrilled to unveil csa2z.com—chk out companion pages for each ch. w/ discussion Qs, resources & ideas to help you get more from this already gr8 book 🥳 #SIGCSE2023
Screenshot of csa2z.com - the companion site for Computer Science in K-12: An A-to-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming

ALT Screenshot of csa2z.com - the companion site for Computer Science in K-12: An A-to-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming

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Demagification. The task of informatics teachers.
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Sad day. Beautiful writing. RIP Fred Brooks.
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The Readiatrician- not here anymore@readiatrician
3 Nov 2022
I said goodbye to a patient a few years ago. She didn’t die, she just got old. I treat patients to age 21 and they move on. When they do, I joke, “well, I did my job! I kept you alive until adulthood!” With this kid, it was not a joke. 1/
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#TABtain: Noun. A developer TABbing their way to a solution using GitHub Copilot.
Cesare Pautasso@pautasso
20 Oct 2022
captain - copilot - tab-tain @mathau delivering an excellent @usisoftware seminar on programmers education
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USI Faculty of Informatics@USI_INF
8 Sep 2022
📣 Join us tomorrow for a #seminar by Prof. @cristalopes (@UCIrvine) on "Exercises in Programming Style" 📅 10:30-11:30 Host: Prof. @mathau @usisoftware @LuCEresearchlab Details ⬇️ inf.usi.ch/en/feeds/10380

Exercises in Programming Style

Speaker: Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA Abstract: Back in the 1940s, a French writer called Raymond Queneau wrote an interesting book with the title Exercises in Style featuring

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Paul Larrouturou@PaulLarrouturou
5 Sep 2022
Le mépris du coach du PSG Christophe Galtier Et le long rire de @KMbappe Quand @LCI #toutestpol leur demande une réaction au patron des TGV qui leur propose un train privatisé plutôt qu’un jet privé pour faire Paris-Nantes. RDV demain, 11h, sur la 26 #Mbappe #Galtier #lti
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Dan Grossman@djg98115
2 Sep 2022
You removed it from the course knowing full well it would never return.
Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi
2 Sep 2022
Kill your darlings, they say, and after ~27 years of teaching it, I have excised continuation-passing style from my programming languages course. I learned CPS in the basement of Lindley Hall, IU, from Mayer Goldberg through a brutally effective method: ↵
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Our #ICER2022 hybrid conference design was somewhat unique & it kind of worked. Hybrid > Physical Virtual A look behind the scenes and some lessons learned: medium.com/luceresearchlab/h… @ICER_C @luganomycity @USI_INF @usisoftware

Hybrid > Physical Virtual

It’s a wrap! The first hybrid ICER conference is over! And it wasn’t too bad.

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Tom Wilks@tom_wilks
10 Aug 2022
Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs: Is this a real job? Or more like a PhD? Caught in short contracts No chance of stability Open your eyes Look up to PIs and see I'm just a postdoc I get no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go Stress is high Pay is low
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