Culturally Responsive Debugging: a Method to Support Cultural Experts’ Early Engagement with Code

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In this episode I unpack Lachney et al.’s (2021) publication titled “culturally responsive debugging: a method to support cultural experts’ early engagement with code,” which explores a strategy for situating debugging within professional expertise among participants within an introductory programming workshop for adults.

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00:00 Intro

00:31 Abstract

01:17 My single sentence summary

01:35 Paper introduction

03:43 Literature review

05:32 Context and methods

08:32 Findings

11:21 Discussion

15:02 Lingering questions and thoughts

15:17 What are some other examples of what culturally responsive debugging might look like?

15:45 There appears to be a conflation with the use of the word “culture” to mean both race and profession

17:15 I’m also hung up on the word “expert” as coming across as homogenous among the participants; however, I’m unsure how to delineate different types of expertise people might have in relation to different cultures

21:02 Outro