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2 posts published by Neil Brown during August 2025| Academic Computing
I organise and play in two football [soccer] games a week, which is a big part of my “life” side of work/life balance. Whenever I go to conferences I miss playing and I always had in mind the idea of organising a game at a conference. My hesitation was always that I wasn’t sure anyone … Continue reading Sport at academic conferences→| Academic Computing
ICER 2025 took place last week and there is now a very brief limbo period before preparations begin for next year. This point, midway through my two-year term as its program co-chair seems like a u…| Academic Computing
Our latest project is Strype, a frame-based editor for Python which runs in the browser. We released 1.0 last year which let you run console and Turtle graphics code, but we were itching to add our…| Academic Computing
We have a new paper available at the TOCE journal today (official open-access link, or watermark-free personal copy) about LLM vs human-generated hints for novice programmers. It was authored by ou…| Academic Computing
Last week we held our privacy and legislation birds-of-a-feather at SIGCSE 2025 (pictures from National Aviary nearby). My previous post explains the background but briefly: educational software us…| Academic Computing
Next week I will be at SIGCSE 2025, where Andreas Stefik, Samantha Schwartz and I will be runnning a birds of a feather session on “The implication of accessibility and privacy legislation on…| Academic Computing
I’m acting as one of the ICER 2025 program chairs, and that has me thinking about reviewer workload in Computing Education Research. (This post is entirely my own personal views, and do…| Academic Computing
His majesty’s revenue and customs, or HMRC, is the UK equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service in the USA. Part of its remit is to check that employee expense claims are not being used for evading tax. Expense claims are not taxed but salary is, so one way to evade income tax would be to … Continue reading The USA, according to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs→| Academic Computing
Recently, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Eva Marinus and I acted as guest editors of a special issue at the Computer Science Education journal. The special issue was distinctive because it only accepted replication studies, and reviewed them as Registered Reports. Registered Reports are a new way to publish science: you peer review the study’s design, before … Continue reading Permanent Registered Reports Track At Computer Science Education→| Academic Computing
Last week I attended Dagstuhl seminar 22302, which I co-organised. I thought it might be useful to record some thoughts on what went well and what could have gone better from an organiser’s point of view. (Note: there were three other organisers; I speak only for myself and the others may well have different opinions.) … Continue reading Reflections on Dagstuhl organisation→| Academic Computing