For "should everybody learn to code?" week. OK for grad-student summaries.

For this issue, we asked readers responding to our recent pieces about technology, programming, and self-directed learning to tell us: should we expect LIS professionals to learn how to code? Answers came long, short, and even in haiku form. Enjoy!

The number of women in computer science has steadily decreased since the 80s. The industry needs to change—and it could take a lesson from Maria Klawe.

Why choose a major where people are gonna be jerks?

What are you assuming people already know?

'A Sort of Everyday Struggle' | News | The Harvard Crimson

Is a programming language a language?

Associated whitepaper might work as a graduate research source.

At the core of this project is teaching the intellectual value of frustration – that is, to teach students to develop not only a tolerance for frustration, but the ability to see frustration …

To increase the effectiveness of graduate research training, many universities have introduced boot camps and bridge programs lasting several days to several weeks. National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health currently support such interventions with nearly $28 million in active awards. Previous evidence for the efficacy of this format exists primarily in the form of anecdotes and end-of-course surveys. Here we show that participation in such short-format interventions is not associated with observable benefits related to skill development, scholarly productivity, or socialization into the academic community. Analyzing data from 294 PhD students in life sciences from 53 US institutions, we found no evidence of effectiveness across 115 variables. We conclude that boot camps and other short formats may not durably impact student outcomes.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Everybody wants to teach, but nobody can decide what it is

Bobby Braun, the new dean of the University of Colorado’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, thinks his school is the best kept secret on the Boulder campus — and he’s do…