<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi iaep, Was reading an interesting article today: <a href="https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-study-shows-success-different-learning-styles-computer-science-class">https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-study-shows-success-different-learning-styles-computer-science-class</a> With all the reflection data in our Journals, perhaps these machine learning algorithms can tall us something about ourselves? I found it very interesting how there are clearly many paths to acquiring mastery in programming. It makes sense that the computer be assessing and feeding back to the learner. Rather interesting I found as well were the sink-holes (so called "walls" of learning, where student's bump and find it hard to continue without undoing some steps). I definitively know the feeling. "They open the door for developing systems to encourage students to go down more fruitful paths before they become lost in the programming weeds." If I may comment one more thing. Perhaps one area often left out in this kind of discussion, is the importance of social values, pointed out by the Free Software movement of which we are a part, and many volunteers such as Flavio. What is the purpose of learning to program? What is the responsibility of one who knows these techniques? I venture that having a bunch more of proprietary startups with crappy apps and (especially) abusive business models, is *definitively*, not the way to go forward as humanity. </body> </html>