Codestrate Packages

Borowski, Marcel; Rädle, Roman; Klokmose, Clemens Nylandsted

doi:10.1145/3170427.3188563

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“…Our prototype of a computational labbook 4 is designed to support the design of RNA nanostructures, also referred to by the scientists as the "dry" part of the experimental process. This phase typically consists of some variation of these steps:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The user interface of the labbook prototype is an adaptation of the Codestrates user interface following the same document-centric structure of sections and paragraphs, where paragraphs can be textual, data, executable code, or user interface elements. Functionality can be dynamically added and removed from a from a document using Codestrates' package manager [4]. Each computational instrument is implemented as a package, which means that it is possible to configure a notebook with a specific selection of instruments, and also extend it with new ones.…”

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Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of Nanoscience

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Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The popularity of computational notebooks heralds a return of software as computational media rather than turn-key applications. We believe this software model has potential beyond supporting just the computationally literate. We studied a biomolecular nano-design lab that works on a current frontier of science -RNA origami -whose researchers depend on computational tools to do their work, yet are not trained as programmers. Using a participatory design process, we developed a computational labbook to concretise what computational media could look like, using the principles of computability, malleability, shareability, and distributability suggested by previous work. We used this prototype to co-reflect with the nanoscientists about how it could transform their practice. We report on the computational culture specific to this research area; the scientists' struggles managing their computational environments; and their subsequent disempowerment yet dependence. Lastly, we discuss the generative potential and limitations of the four design principles for the future of computational media.

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Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of Nanoscience

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“…Thus, we chose to use Codestrates [20] as a computational notebook platform as it allows to develop stateful applications using web technologies, which-in contrast to other open-source implementations such as Jupyter [9] or Observable [16]-inherently supports realtime collaboration similar to a Google Docs document. We adapted Codestrates to operationalize our research by building small extensions to it using Codestrates' package management [1]. The package management allows users to share content as packages among codestrates.…”

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“…Students reported about their prior programming experience on a five-point Likert scale ranging from Beginner (1) to Expert (5): two reported to be experts (5), four reported some experience (3), 11 declared to be rather beginners (2), and three reported to be complete beginners (1). 11 students reported to have used JavaScript before.…”

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Exploring the Benefits and Barriers of Using Computational Notebooks for Collaborative Programming Assignments

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Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Programming assignments in computer science courses are often processed in pairs or groups of students. While working together, students face several shortcomings in today's software: The lack of real-time collaboration capabilities, the setup time of the development environment, and the use of different devices or operating systems can hamper students when working together on assignments. Text processing platforms like Google Docs solve these problems for the writing process of prose text, and computational notebooks like Google Colaboratory for data analysis tasks. However, none of these platforms allows users to implement interactive applications. We deployed a web-based literate programming system for three months during an introductory course on application development to explore how collaborative programming practices unfold and how the structure of computational notebooks affect the development. During the course, pairs of students solved weekly programming assignments. We analyzed data from weekly questionnaires, three focus groups with students and teaching assistants, and keystroke-level log data to facilitate the understanding of the subtleties of collaborative programming with computational notebooks. Findings reveal that there are distinct collaboration patterns; the preferred collaboration pattern varied between pairs and even varied within pairs over the course of three months. Recognizing these distinct collaboration patterns can help to design future computational notebooks for collaborative programming assignments.

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“…However, CodestRates expands on the user interface by providing new interactional qualities. For instance, while WebstRates is built around transclusion, CodestRates expands on and mediates this experience through packages, essentially reified, reusable webstrates containing functionality, data, or content (Borowski, Rädle, and Klokmose 2018). With the intro- The functionality of Codestrates is, importantly, completely bootstrapped, meaning that it has been written in itself.…”

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Casting the runes and parsing them: Unpacking software mediation, interactions, and computational literacy in non-conventional programming configurations

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This dissertation is an investigation of computational literacy and how it is shaped by software use and mediation. Early visionaries such as Perlis and Naur recognized the need for everyone to learn computing, but these ideals are yet to be fully realized. Arguably, a narrow focus on computational thinking is the more popular approach in contemporary computing education research and policymaking. Another branch of researchers, in particular Kay and diSessa, have argued for the need for providing the right media for computing. In line with them, I argue that a more materially grounded literacy is a necessary step. By extension, this means providing a better understanding of how these material conditions (e.g., software) influence the development of computational literacy. Through eight studies, I have employed a mix of qualitative methods and constructive design research. The qualitative methods fall under ethnography, technography, and retrospective autoethnography. The empirically grounded research draws from interviews with five humanities students, interviews and observations of four biomolecular scientists, interviews with 12 experienced programmers, and a workshop and observations of 12 experienced knitters. These interviews focused on their experiences with programming, their ability to use and appropriate unfamiliar software, and their feelings of mastery and disempowerment. This is supplemented with technographic investigations of computational media, literate computing environments, and programming interfaces that focuses on the mediating qualities of software for programming such as interaction, semiotics, ethics, and transformation. My work has shown the importance of the material foundations of computational literacy in these contexts. More specifically, the material conditions affect this literacy in multiple ways such as the dissonance between software visions, people’s expectations, and the practical implementations. People experience disempowerment and crises and resolve those through various means such as enrolling a more capable peer or incorporating supporting artifacts. The dissertation further presents computational media as a promising, yet fragile software paradigm and shows how this paradigm blends use and development, inscribes particular user roles, and balances between evoking trust and alienation in its users. Finally, by emphasizing a theoretical lens of self-concept in the context of computational literacy, the dissertation provides a view of literacy as a product of continuous experiences and confirmations from people’s social and material lifeworlds. These findings should resonate with scholars of new media, human-computer interaction, and computing education, as the dissertation explores the complex mutual relationships between people’s cultural, social, and material environments as well as their ongoing and sometimes contradictory ways of seeing themselves. Computational literacy can be emancipatory for everyone, not just for computer scientists, yet the development of literacy demands adequate conditions. This dissertation is an argument for the importance of those conditions.

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Codestrate Packages

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of Nanoscience

Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of Nanoscience

Exploring the Benefits and Barriers of Using Computational Notebooks for Collaborative Programming Assignments

Casting the runes and parsing them: Unpacking software mediation, interactions, and computational literacy in non-conventional programming configurations

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