Patterns

I've recently become interested in patterns as a way to capture and communicate chunks of knowledge. Patterns are applied to several subject domains. The most common (which I'm not very interested in) is in complex program designs. I'm more interested in using them with beginning programmers and capturing teaching methods.

Elementary Patterns

• There is a project devoted to developing elementary patterns.
• My contributions:
  • Elementary patterns are closely related to the idea of templates which we've used in CS130. See here for a quick port to the Web of what we used to use.
  • Accessing Information, a pattern on where to look first for information to use in a calculation.

Pedagogical Patterns

• There is a project devoted to developing pedagogical patterns.
• Joseph Bergin has contributed a number of patterns to the project. Ten are collected here and another six here.
• My contributions:
  • Expose The Process (and here on the PPP web site)