Pre-West Prep: Elena Machkasova

April 03, 2015

Talk: Adapting Clojure to an introductory CS classroom.

Elena Machkasova's talk at Clojure/West is about using Clojure as a teaching language for novice programmers.

Background

Dr. Elena Machkasova teaches at the Univesity of Minnesota, Morris. She is working on a project called ClojureEd to teach Clojure as a teaching language to novice programmers. Read the papers to understand the background. This talk promises to be very interesting in terms of pedagogical techniques (how to teach Clojure and programming) and tooling/setup for beginners.

About Elena Machkasova

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This post is one of a series called Pre-West Prep, which is also published by email. It's all about getting ready for the upcoming Clojure/West, organized by Cognitect. Conferences are ongoing conversations and explorations. Speakers discuss trends, best practices, and the future by drawing on the rich context built up in past conferences and other media.

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