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Computer science professor Brian Kernighan GS ’69 left a career in emerging computer science research to pursue his passion for teaching. He shared his perspectives on the evolution of the field of computer science, his interdisciplinary approach to this work, and his advice to aspiring programmers.

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This post is part of a behind-the-scenes series about how I obtain and prepare for opportunities like podcast interviews, speaking gigs, and instruction roles. Our first one talked about my podcast interview with Greater than Code. This one talks about syllabus design! The Setup A colleague of mine at a local university recently brought it…

A while back, I wrote a post about syllabus design while creating a syllabus for an iOS course. In the end I taught that course from the department's existing syllabus, but this year, I’m designing a new course: Title: Mobile Software Development Description: This course examines software engineering skills through the lens of mobile development. Students will leave with more confidence in…

I sometimes write about what I'm learning from teaching computer science courses: first an iOS Development course, and now a course of my own design called Mobile Software Development. You can see all the posts in the "Designing a Course" series right here! When I started writing about how I'm designing this new course, I…

I sometimes write about what I’m learning from teaching computer science courses: first an iOS Development course, and now a course of my own design called Mobile Software Development. You can see all the posts in the "Designing a Course" series right here! When I started writing about how I’m designing this new course, I was…

Hi. I’m Chelsea Troy. I’m a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing a series about designing my course, Mobile Software Development. You can see all the posts in the "Designing a Course" series right here! In the last post on this subject, we talked about group work. This post covers the…

Hi. I'm Chelsea Troy. I'm a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing about the techniques I use to teach my distributed course, Mobile Software Development. You can see all the posts in the "Designing a Course" series right here! As you can see right here, my students do a lot of…

Hi. I'm Chelsea Troy. I'm a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing about the techniques I use to teach my distributed course, Mobile Software Development. You can see all the posts in the "Designing a Course" series right here! As you can see right here, my students do a lot of…

This is an adapted version of the text of the email that I sent to my blog subscribers on May 16, 2023. I placed it on my blog as an example of what you can expect to receive if you subscribe. In February of 2022, my mom got very sick. At the time I had…

We received over 2,500 job applications. Fewer than 100 filled a form with open-ended questions. About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world challenge. We are a nation with the…

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

Ivan Illich (1926 – 2002) est un penseur de l’écologie politique. Prêtre catholique, il crée en 1956 un centre de formation dans la communauté portoricaine à New-York destiné à former les prêtres à la culture latino-américaine. En 1966, il ouvre une université libre à Cuernavaca au Mexique, le Centre interculturel où il développe avec d’autres…

Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps

Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.

The Unix Philosophy defines a culture of how to write tooling in the Unix world. At its core, the Unix Philosophy is about designing tools that work together. A consequence is that there must be some rules or convention such that programs can communicate. The power of the Unix Philosophy is that it lets us both automate our workflows and also build more sophisticated and powerful solutions by combining tools. The most common conventions in the Unix world are:

Making tech more diverse and welcoming by bringing people together and helping teach programming skills.

Consider interactivity over showing over telling.

A series of instructional web pages for instructors and teaching teams about using AI tools for teaching and learning.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class. He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calcu…

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

Traduction d'un article de Nicholas C. Zakas. Contribute to MaNDRaXe/ingenieurs-grincheux development by creating an account on GitHub.

This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.

This spring, I taught an undergraduate class on chess engines. I probably learned more than any of my students.

Effective writing for software developers

This lead me to think about my experience in college and in my career. It’s easy to say colleges don’t teach useful software development, but how true is that?

As someone that writes code on a regular basis, you must view a lot (if not all) of your work as problem-solving. After all, that's often what you're hired for.

This site has grown a lot in the last year or so. We've spent a lot of time going over object-oriented solutions to WordPress problems. So much so that…

As you lay there, you try to remember how you got into this mess. It seemed like it was going to be so easy. You'd heard that object-oriented programming was…

For the last year and a half, I've been teaching everything I know to the WordPress community. This hasn't been easy to do and it's been quite a journey so far!

I spoke at WordCamp Atlanta 2017 on how you could use teaching as a learning tool. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking for…