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Why is cloud file-sharing hard? By analogy with programming misconceptions.
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/25/cloud-sharing.html
saved 2025-08-25

End-users have trouble sharing files on the cloud. Are these mistakes just random confusion from non-technical users? No: we show that there's a deep analogy to *programming* misconceptions! Surprised? Read more here:
"Sharing is Scaring: Why is Cloud File-Sharing Hard?"
https://blog.brownplt.org…

McMining: Automated Discovery of Misconceptions in Student Code
Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08827 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

McMining: Automated Discovery of Misconceptions in Student Code
When learning to code, students often develop misconceptions about various programming language concepts. These can not only lead to bugs or inefficient code, but also slow down the learning of related concepts. In this paper, we introduce McMining, the task of mining programming misconceptions from samples of code from a student. To enable the training and evaluation of McMining systems, we develop an extensible benchmark dataset of misconceptions together with a large set of code samples wher…

Teaching Introductory Functional Programming Using Haskelite
Pedro Vasconcelos (University of Porto)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03640 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Teaching Introductory Functional Programming Using Haskelite
Learning functional programming requires learning a substitution-based computational model. While substitution should be a familiar concept from high-school algebra, students often have difficulty applying it to new settings, such as recursive definitions, algebraic data types and higher-order functions. Step-by-step interpreters have been shown to help beginners by clarifying misconceptions and improving understanding. This paper reports on the experience of using a step-by-step tracing inte…

from my link log —
Pwning Nix through GitHub Actions.
https://ptrpa.ws/nixpkgs-actions-abuse
saved 2025-10-16 https://dotat.at/:/J86H2.html