I taught a class on vibe coding today. 50+ Executive MBA students, high variance in tech experience, high variance in what laptops they can bring to class. Challenge accepted. It went as well as it could, but I learned many things from the experience. First, why should we do this
Growth is a nonlinear process. There has been a lot of movement on our website recently. We have added several new apps to the catalogue. Come check it out: edutool.org — Apps & CommunityA home for lightweight, educator-friendly webapps — live demos, source code, and a developer community. First, I have
Academia is individualistic and communal; we rarely write papers on our own, but collaborate with co-authors across the globe. We always stand on the shoulders of giants. We meet at conferences and seminars; good research rarely stems from a single brain. Yet we are fiercely protective of our individual reputation,
The user interface of your app is the front-end, like the beautiful space you sit in at a restaurant. But you also need a backend - the kitchen that makes the food, the pantry that stores ingredients, etc. This is where Google Firebase comes into play. Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service.
One of the first classroom simulations I coded was a newsvendor game. You can find it at newsvendor.edutool.org. You need to sign up for an instructor account. After I approve you, you can set up a session, log in as a player in a separate browser tab, and
I will create a series of posts here that outline how to build your own web apps using AI coding. While my focus is on academics as the audience, this walkthrough will help everyone interested in the topic. I am a coding rookie; I do not have extensive experience in
In my 25 years in academia, technology often felt like a straitjacket. Sure, technology helped. I would not go back to running a class without a proper Learning Management System. But more often than not, I spent hours bending the tools that we had available to my will, or convincing