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CS TA's Weekly

计算机助教周刊

Why we decide to publish CS TA's Weekly during the preparation of a TA training course?

The literature about teacher education and our personal experiences both indicates that excellent TA competency wouldn't be formed by an one-and-for-all course. It could and should be continuously improved after the course/orientation finished.

However, seeking for useful materials actively and reading relative papers from SIGCSE would be a heavy burden for most graduate TAs. The most they could accept would be some subscription to medium or substack accounts and give it a brief look when they are in toilet. Sadly there's no such account, at least no such Chinese account.

Then why don't create one?

So here we are. Every week, we will introduce one high-quality course, one assignment design worth imitating and one inspiring computing education research paper.

Actually, these contents are easy to find, but hard to choose from. There are too many of them.

If we have enough resources, we would also create the following sections:

  • TA Diary, sharing your experiences and feelings as a TA.
  • Sci-Fi meets Computing, an article introduce one CS concept that appeared in a sci-fi plot.
  • Discussion, provide a platform for TAs to exchange ideas about a given topic.

If you have any suggestion, please submit a issue. It would help us a lot.

为什么在筹备助教培训课程的过程中，我们决定做一个“微周刊”？

不论是教师教育的文献，还是通过我们的亲身体验，我们都发现，助教素养不是仅靠一次培训形成的，在助教培训结束后，依然有持续提升的可能, 并且应当持续提升。

但是，主动搜集资料，主动阅读SIGCSE的相关论文，对大部分研究生助教来说是过重的负担。订阅一些微信公众号，蹲坑时看一眼，可能是他们对这样一项和科研无关的工作能付出的最大程度了。遗憾的是，还没有这样的微信公众号, 至少中文互联网上没有。

那么，为什么不创造一个？

所以我们决定这样做: 每周介绍一门值得参考的课程，一个值得参考的作业设计，一篇给人启发的计算教育研究论文。

实际上，这些内容很容易找到，难的是从中选出要分享的。好课、好作业、好论文不是太少，而是太多了。

除此之外，如果有资源，我们还计划开设这些栏目:

助教日记, 分享助教工作中的一段经历。

当科幻遇到计算, 写一篇文章介绍一个科幻小说情节中的计算机知识点。

话题讨论，给出一个问题/话题，给大家一个平台交换不同的观点。

如果您对我们有什么反馈建议，欢迎去提issue. 这会对我们很有帮助。

update: 经过一段时间的尝试后, 没能坚持周更.... 不过我们会继续尝试其他的形式, 比如“计算教育论文导读”这样的形式。

20240415 update: 之后还是考虑每周更新一篇相关的内容，可能是书籍/论文/课程/作业/理论等等。

以后文件名为 2024_01.md 表示2024年的第一篇。