@csgordon After teaching HtDP to freshmen for a few years I am convinced that the problem is poor *text editing* skills specifically, compounded by poor typing skills.

It takes many students considerable time and effort to locate relevant code, move the cursor to a specific location, swap the order of two arguments to a function, etc. (We are using DrRacket but I think using a fancier editor would be even worse.)

Watching them edit code on their laptops probably looks a lot like if I were trying to edit code in the Notes app on my phone, and I wonder if that's because that's where most of their text input is happening nowadays??

Working with Ayush on this zine has been an absolute pleasure. Ayush did all the illustrations, and we collaborated on the text. We sweated every detail -- I think we went through eleven drafts. Ayush was also new to page layout software, but learned the ins and outs of it just for this project!

Happily, just as we were wrapping this project up, the Cykas paper was accepted for presentation at the PaPoC workshop, and I'll be presenting it there in a couple weeks! https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14690