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Week 1

Please complete the following material before Class 1 on Tue Sep 2 @ 3:00pm.

Videos:

Total video time: ~1 hour
Tip: Click Details in Panopto to see topic timecodes for the videos

Notes:

Reading:

Garth (garthcoombs@fas.harvard.edu)
- Drop-in office hours Tuesdays 11am-12pm in WJH 840
- Meetings by appointment https://bit.ly/GarthOfficeHours (mix of in person & Zoom)
Susan (susanbuck@fas.harvard.edu)
- Drop-in office hours Tuesdays 6-7pm WJH 960
- Zoom by appointment
Students
- What’s a skill you’re excited to develop this semester (inside or outside of this course)?
- What is a problem you’ve faced recently (significant or insignificant) and what strategies did you use to address it?

Build a foundation of psychology-relevant coding skills including how to think and problem-solve like a programmer, as well as organize and share work in an efficient and reproducible manner.
Learn foundational skills in the programming languages JavaScript & R and understand how they can be utilized in psychological research.
Implement these coding skills to create online behavioral experiments (JavaScript) and efficiently wrangle and analyze data (R).
Practice productive collaboration by working with, and learning from, peers

RE: Between Tool and Trouble: Student Attitudes Toward AI in Programming Education - what was studied, procedure, findings/conclusions
How has AI impacted your education and learning experiences so far?
What is cognitive debt and are there areas of your life where you’ve felt its effects?
Who has experience programming pre-AI and how would you compare it to programming with AI?
Have you encountered examples where AI “lead you astray” with inaccurate or unhelpful information?
What policies/strategies on AI have you encountered in other courses and how did you find them useful or not useful?
Course policy/goals with AI:
- Scaffold
- Skill to be practiced
- Purpose of code chats
- Balance

Complete via Gradescope
Released Tuesdays at the start of class; submissions due Thursdays by 11:59pm.
Contain questions that pull from the notes/videos/readings you worked through in preparation for class as well as exercises that allow you to practice with the material for that week
You will work with a peer in class to complete the work, but each student will submit their own individual task set.
Any portion of the task set not completed in class should be finished at home.
Link to the Week 1 Task Set (Due Thu Sep 5 11:59pm)