Education
An annotated collection of 5 books & papers on education, spanning 2013 to 2023. Featuring works by Charles Wheelan, Allen B. Downey, Andy Field and 2 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Wheelan's book is a popular statistics primer for readers who survived a bad statistics class. He covers the fundamentals — distributions, correlation, regression, significance, sampling — with enough examples that the f…
Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
The book a product director picks up when they decide to stop being afraid of code. Downey teaches programming as computational thinking, not as Python tricks — variables, conditionals, loops, functions, data structures,…
An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma
Andy Field teaches statistics inside a sci-fi novel — a graphic-novel narrative frame in which statistical concepts are introduced as the protagonist needs them. The gimmick works: concepts that are dry in most textbooks…
Educating for Empathy in Software Engineering
Levy's paper is part of the small research literature on why empathy should be taught in computer science programmes and what changes when it is. The piece is short, well-referenced, and argues the obvious point carefull…
Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century
Poldrack is a Stanford neuroscientist who wrote an open-source statistics textbook because he was tired of what was available for his own students. The book covers the fundamentals — probability, hypothesis testing, regr…