In defence of GUIs, though, I suspect they may fit better in truly event-driven programming worlds. CLIs tend to come from the tradition of "execution starts at the top, falls slowly through to the bottom with maybe some loops on the way" (like scripting).
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Replying to @sTeamTraen @richarddmorey and
Having actually written a chess program on a Mac circa 1988, using the Mac API in Pascal with everything being driven by events, I can't imagine what that would look like with a CLI. And we do mostly recommend RStudio to go along with R (although I wouldn't recommend RCommander).
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Replying to @sTeamTraen @o_guest and
I would not claim that there is no place for GUIs; I like them for some things. But GUI *everything* is bad, and that's where we are.
@CandiceMorey has noticed that with SPSS, some students don't get the connection between the calculations they're doing and the numbers in SPSS. >2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @richarddmorey @sTeamTraen and
"Doing stats" is computing means, etc, while SPSS is another (weird) thing. We take for granted even things about GUIs (even metaphors about "files" and "folders") that might not be obvious to our students, as the tech they interact with changes.
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Replying to @richarddmorey @sTeamTraen and
It seems very hard to me to teach statistics while avoiding elementary computing concepts like files and folders.
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Replying to @JPdeRuiter @richarddmorey and
Same! I was excited about the file.choose() function until I realized many students didn't know where their files were. Nowadays I just generate data in the script. This way they learn a little about simulations too.
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OK, I wrote it! https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1067079340507217920 … Thank you all for providing the needed kick in the butt to get it down after all these months.
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Why women in psychology can't program
"About two months ago my brother, who works in a data science on social psychology data, asked me why his colleagues, who are women and have PhDs in psychology, cannot code"
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Replying to @o_guest @macstrelioff and
I (mostly) agree with your arguments, but why the title? you give no evidence to think this has anything to do with sex. the claim that UGs can't or won't learn to code is pervasive throughout the liberal arts and social sciences, including male-heavy fields like polisci
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Replying to @talyarkoni @o_guest and
I've heard versions of the "our UGs won't code" from quite a few faculty—both male and female—and never got the sense that they were thinking about women. ask most male UG psych majors if they want to take a bunch of stats and programming classes and the answer will also be no
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Replying to @talyarkoni @o_guest and
I agree that the title doesn't really fit with the general direction of the piece, which is essentially about undergraduates in psychology.
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Replying to @o_guest @talyarkoni and
Having read more from this thread, I realize that there wasn't any point in writing what I wrote. Your post was a great way to frame this discussion, thanks for writing it.
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