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Apr 5, 2019 at 21:20
On assigning programming tasks perform in class, enabling students to ask fundamental questions that help them understand the abstractions:
Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development
Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development
I finished my first semester teaching at the University of Michigan. I taught EECS 493 User Interface Development all on the Web. It was a tough class for me since I had never before this class use…

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