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17 Ott 2017 14:00

GrandeOmega, a smart e-learning platform

Campus Scientifico via Torino - edificio ZETA, Sala Riunioni

Giuseppe Maggiore, Hogeschool Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Abstract:
Teaching programming and mathematics presents a challenge: learning such disciplines requires, at the same time, a heavy does of both theory and practice. Theory provides the overview, the rules, and the fundamental way the discipline is set up. Practice offers context and motivation for the theory, and its repetition breeds familiarity and deeper understanding.
Moreover, while teachers strive towards sharing the beauty and elegance of abstract concepts, students often wish to learn “useful” concepts that have a real-world application, and to experiment with it. Unfortunately, this becomes a chicken-and-egg problem: too much practice overshadows proper learning of the underlying theory, and too much theory demotivates students.
In this talk, we present GrandeOmega, a tool that facilitates the teaching of the formal application of programming languages and similar formalisms in an active, engaging, practical way.

Bio Sketch:
Giuseppe Maggiore holds a PhD in computer science from the University Ca' Foscari of Venice for the study and development of the Casanova game development language (http://casanova.codeplex.com/).
Now he's  Lecturer at Hogeschool Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and CTO by Hoppinger BV, in Rotterdam (NL).
His  expertise ranges from software architectures to heterogeneous systems and interoperation within enterprise environments.

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in italiano

Organizzatore

Agostino Cortesi

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