In this episode I unpack Petrie’s (2021) publication titled “Programming music with Sonic Pi promotes positive attitudes for beginners,” which investigates student attitudes around enjoyment, importance, and anxiety when coding music through Sonic Pi.

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00:00 Intro

00:19 Abstract

01:26 My single sentence summary

01:58 Paper introduction

03:56 Background

07:29 Methods

10:08 Results

11:23 Effects of prior experience

13:13 Enjoyment

15:12 Importance

15:40 Qualitative results

16:37 Anxiety

18:02 Discussion

19:53 Outro