cognitive psychology. PhD 
Combinatorics problem: you're arranging 10 people (A .. J) in a row. A and B must sit next to each other. How many arrangements? How could writing this problem as a program help scaffold the problem-solving process?
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I think developing this kind of reasoning can be valuable, which is why I'm approaching it with an interactive computer-assisted tool. The automatic "compiler" take is also interesting!
I love the concept of visualizing decision trees -> visualizing induction! Maybe there's an integration with eg techniques in @LeifAndersen's OOPSLA paper about in-situ vis of abstract data structures.pic.twitter.com/4xt3OhEpBM
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Also my interest in a compiler is less for automating the problem than for reifying problem-solving. If the compilation strategy was simple enough, could you teach it to an undergrad? a la
@amyjko's work on explicit strategies for CS1pic.twitter.com/5VgzZUURmd
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