Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator
I was honored to receive ACM SIGSOFT’s Influential Educator
Award for 2020
this past April. I was also surprised: while I think I’ve helped scientists
throug...
July 09, 2020
Disclaimer
Years ago, I lost my temper while arguing with my brother, and said, "Jeff, I could teach you everything I know and you'd still be an idiot." Please keep that in mind as you read this site.
Recent posts
June 2020 Papers
I just downloaded 30 papers from ICSE 2020 that are
(a) more interesting and useful than 90% of what’s in the undergrad SE textbooks I’ve read
and (b) probab...
June 20, 2020
Three by Two
For the last few years I’ve been asking trainee teachers to give one another feedback
on a two-by-two grid
with positive versus negative on the vertical axis...
June 09, 2020
Marble Race
Plan: Andrew Gatt.
Taping and swearing and eventual triumph: my family.
May 27, 2020
Sunday Nights
I left home when I was seventeen.
I call home almost every Sunday night,
no matter where in the world I was.
If my dad answered,
I’d ask him how he was and h...
May 24, 2020