While loops gone wild
I hope that my students know that I too feel programming is hard. In fact, I hope some of them realize that programming is exciting and meaningful to me in large part because it’s such a challenge. When students complain about difficulty, I like to remind them that they’re in school to stretch themselves but sadly that doesn’t tend [...]
OLPC / XO
We’ve had our OLPC through the G1G1 program for long enough that I find myself entitled to an opinion. It’s not positive at all. We got ours mostly as a fun coffee table ornament, but also out of a sincere hope that it could have value for the developing world and that we could contribute [...]
Rediscovering the passion.
“Has anyone considered the possibility that it’s just not fun any more?” – Don Knuth, Stanford University, October 2006 SIGCSE caught me in an interesting place somewhere between extreme career-angst and profound passion for ongoing CS projects. Unsurprisingly, a number of the sessions I chose to attend had to do with computer science’s negative image [...]
