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I wonder how old the peanut butter and jelly sandwich game is. I remember my mathematics teacher doing it back when I was in highschool. https://t.co/EhtXoi52Mb
I found instructions for playing this game from an MIT handout.https://t.co/PCY5eZA57f
The latest version of it seems to be specifically about programming computers/robots https://t.co/QD2XV5cmRw
Found a demonstration of this thing from as far back as 2009.https://t.co/bF41pOLQ96
I find it fascinating how this 'game' is accessible to even really young audiences, here's another from 2011 that seems to maybe 1st or 2nd grade.https://t.co/mpGwkHvHOT
And here's one published 2020 that was targeting students from Harvard.https://t.co/3HsqQtXGmU
And its ongoing too, same guy has the same basic idea in a 2017 lecture https://t.co/QhiQcmIqYf
There's also a doppelganger of this thing in the uk that is referred to as "jam sandwich".TIL: people eat butter and jam sandwiches.https://t.co/gvwzv6tgzR
Found something dated to 2000 attributed to Grinnel College."Unambiguously describe how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich."https://t.co/7zvpXTQJeE
I found something in a new jersey Discrete Mathematics curriculum about instructions for making a sandwich.Says its from 1996!https://t.co/7I9F2D5oHv https://t.co/fNfvFR0ZMz
Wow this thing goes way back. I found one from 1982 that describes it as an "alien" and not a computer.And it was actually about teaching language & writing skills... Nothing to do with computers or algorithms at all!https://t.co/gd5ArxU8b5https://t.co/LdxoaTGWSz https://t.co/rHRm5uHYVl
Unrelated, but I found a 1974 study on food preference that includes a survey asking about 387 different foods. Apparently people didn't like filling it out over and over lol. https://t.co/ZhlvYj63cI https://t.co/Lg81CjRRDO
I found a different video of the 'how to make a sandwich' thing, but in this case it's the 'alien' version being used to teach students how to write better science reports.https://t.co/7uhBNGWxA2
These keep getting worse.https://t.co/JS6Bkwum8z
This makes me wonder if I might find earlier versions of the instruction game in different languages.Like the cliché'd computer software development meme, it seems to have some legs. https://t.co/ys1HU4hPo0
These memes are like wandering myths used to aid in pedagogy.I found a presentation going into some depth into the nature of ontologies and ambiguity of instructions that fits the nature of the peanut butter game quite well.https://t.co/vqlgrdr7wS https://t.co/rPRGPTmx6B
Sometimes you get the instructions wrong and invent an entire line of cookies?Like, Do-si-dos are peanut butter sandwiches if you squint hard enough.And those Mango Crèmes with NutriFusion™ ones were clearly a mistake.https://t.co/DULEuBRylw