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# Emacs as Design Pattern Learning
Greta Goetz
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Still working on it! In the meantime, you can watch it at <https://toobnix.org/w/afvaVspSSR9YypjUqTypQz>
How do we manage today? This presentation is for people interested in thinking about Emacs as a tool sophisticated enough to cater to the complex assemblage of tasks, people, activities/outcomes, tools (Markauskaite & Goodyear). Some software oversimplifies. Emacs both helps users implement design pattern learning that can cope with complexity while also modeling design pattern learning. By championing the opportunity for users to also be co-creators (cf. Beaty et al.), the free software design at the core and center of Emacs teaches us a way of "being" (Alexander, Gabriel) that can be extended to both the Emacs community and beyond, in a knowledge of how to live (Stiegler, Illich).
1. Definition of design patterns and relation to Emacs
2. Why this approach matters
3. Managing complexity: Emacs as mind map
4. Emacs as design pattern framework
5. Personal customization
6. Implementing Emacs as a model for learning
7. Emacs as accommodating complex social, community assemblages
# References
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- Alexander, C. (1977). *A pattern language*. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Alexander, C. (1979). *The timeless way of building*. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Alexander, C. (1993). *A foreshadowing of 21st century art: The color and geometry of very early Turkish carpets*. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Beaty, L., Cousin, G., & Hodgson, V. (2010). Revisiting the e-quality in networked learning manifesto. In L. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, V. Hodgson, C. Jones, M. de Laat, D. McConnell, & T. Ryberg (Eds.), *Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Networked Learning* (pp. 585–592). Aalborg: Lancaster University. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/netlc/past/nlc2010/abstracts/PDFs/Beaty.pdf. Accessed 30 October 2021.
- Chua, S. (2021). Completing sketches. https://sachachua.com/dotemacs/#org092e0d5. Accessed 29 October 2021.
- Crichton, M. (1983). *Electronic life*. New York: Knopf.
- Gabriel, R. (1996). *Patterns of software*. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Goodyear, P. & Retalis, S. (2010). Learning, technology and design. In Goodyear, P. & Retalis, S. (Eds.). *Technology-enhanced learning: Design patterns and pattern languages*, 1-27. Rotterdam, Boston: Sense Publishers.
- Guo, P. (2018). Students, systems, and interactions: Synthesizing the first
four years of Learning@Scale and charting the future. L@S 2018, June 26–28, 2018, London, United Kingdom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3231644.3231662. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.
- Guo, P., Kim, J. & Rubin, R. (2014). How video production affects student engagement: An empirical study of MOOC videos. ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.
- Illich, I. (1973). *Tools of conviviality*. New York: Harper & Row.
- Kim, J., Guo, P., Seaton, D., Mitros, P., Gajos, K. & Miller, R. (2014). Understanding in-video dropouts and interaction peaks in online lecture videos. ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.
- Markauskaite, L. & Goodyear, P. (2017). *Epistemic fluency and professional education: innovation, knowledgeable action and actionable knowledge*. Dordrecht: Springer.
- Markel, J. & Guo, P. (2020). Designing the future of experiential learning environments for a post-COVID world: A preliminary case study. NFW ’20 (Symposium on the New Future of Work), August 3–5, 2020, Virtual Event. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.
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- Trocmé-Fabre, H. (1999). *Réinventer le métier d’apprendre*. Paris: Éditions d’organisation.
# Discussion
- this paper is relevant to exploring the space of design patterns: https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/1998/WS-98-08/WS98-08-024.pdf it's old and a little crytpic, but a good paper. it's "Recommender Systems for Problem Solving Environments"
- greta: Thanks for that link!
- if I may ask, what's the little toy figure in the background, looks nice :D
- A wooden (fake) Transformer :)
- do you think emacs could have implemented with this design pattern, but in another programming language?
Feedback:
- That's a great point about the sketches, and why Emacs graphical improvements are important.
- yes this talk is excellent. i'm very happy to find some of my thoughts echoed here in such a clear and well researched way
- this is exactly my experience. using/learning emacs is THE way that i gained the skills, the learning to learn skills i needed to become a professional programmer (which is incidental to the growing up into a hacker :P)
- a friend of mine (my original emacs mentor) has been telling me about Ivan Ilich and wondering about how his philosophy lines up with free software, so this is amazing synchronicity of thought for me.
- cognitive democracy is a very useful phrase to describe emacs (and FOSS) culture
- This is saying out loud in concrete language everything I've felt about emacs and the community since e.g. the package system became available and social git forges made it easy to explore others' configs
- What a wonderfully diverse set of viewpoints so far. Not just viewpoints but concepts I would never have expected in an ‘Emacs conf’. I'm glad I dropped by. Thank you greta.
- This quote of Richard Gabriel rings a bell in the emacs context: "If it is small, it was written by an extraordinary person, someone I would like as a friend; if it is large, it was not designed by one person, but over time in a slow, careful, incremental way" (Gabriel, R. (1996). Patterns of software: tales from the software community. New York: Oxford University Press. (https://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf)
- I just finished listening to Greta Goetz's talk and I love it so much.
- I listened to it after listening to acdw's talk on the frownies mode, a little mode to do something very simple, how he met people, wrote that mode, published it, got feedback. Your talk felt like an excellent background on the experience. The part about helping each other also really resonated with me. I would like to search for how many messages I must have posted to comp.emacs and gnu.emacs.help back in the days. I feel like it must have been about 2000 of them. :) Much of that long before I started writing any code.
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