It's definitely a tool that has its uses. I think it is often misused though. I'm quite keen when I get a chance to play with the Jupyter Notebook <-> Visual Studio Code stuff. You know, in my infinite time!
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I think my logic from my Matlab post is exactly what the issue is here: "GUIs and IDEs are great — just like once we already know how to drive using a manual transmission we can easily switch to automatic — but they predominantly do not push us to develop our skills further."
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I want to point out that not everyone wants to develop their (programming) skills further - writing code itself is a tool for doing something else. For example, the folks in a Rhetoric class at Berkeley were able to use this to do sentiment analysis on political speeches.
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Absolutely. I was talking about my issue, which is that I do want to teach my students to code.
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I'm a computational modeler in a experimental psych department so I am coming at it from a very specific perspective.
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no firm conclusion to this tweet, but: there's something in here about several different communities of practice, including active coders, data scientist/scripters + learners, teachers, etc.
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maybe Jupyter and RStudio are slightly different "good enough" solutions that is constrained by needing to serve all of these communities?
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also (just thinking out loud) need to factor in the value of a single ecosystem/stack (or two:
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Personally, I love all these tools. What I object to often is the hype, misinformation, rhetoric around them that confuse students/people into misuse and malpractice.
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seems like the normal hurly burly of social interaction to me - the "mangle of practice" :). no one is "read in" on everything and every use, so this is all negotiation and expectation adjustment. I think only community-based orgs have a chance of providing solid direction.
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Agreed. And I hope they heed the morals of the past. 
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