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A tweet recounts the famous 1986 MIT lectures by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson for Hewlett-Packard engineers, where they taught abstraction and recursion rather than job skills, with Sussman famously wearing a wizard hat.
This paper introduces a Bloom-aligned framework for measuring educational control in LLMs—the ability to adjust cognitive demand while preserving instructional intent—and evaluates it on programming tasks using Qwen3 models, revealing that models excel at increasing difficulty but struggle to lower it.
Computer science professor Brent Yorgey writes a reflective letter to his students about the ethical challenges in the software industry, urging them to prioritize love, people, and deep thinking over profit and speed.