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Friday, April 21, 2017

Repost: What Makes a Program Elegant?

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In a recent issue of the Communications of the ACM, there was a short article titled,  What Makes a Program Elegant?   I found it an interes...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Book Review: Optimized C++: Proven Techniques for Heightened Performance

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I have spent significant time on performance issues and have been in search of a book that can summarize the diversity of issues and techniq...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Conference Time: SIGCSE 2017 - Day 2

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I started my morning by attending my regular POGIL session.  I like the technique and using it in the classroom.  However, I should probably...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Conference Attendance SIGCSE 2017 - Day 1

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Here in Seattle, where I used to live, attending SIGCSE 2017. Exposed! CS Faculty Caught Lecturing in Public: A Survey of Instructional Pra...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Repost: Learn by Doing

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I want to take a brief time to link to two of Mark Guzdial's recent posts.  Both including an important theme in teaching.  Students lea...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Conference Attendance CGO (etc) 2017 - Day 3

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Today is the last day for the conference.  I attended several more talks today and my student took 2nd in the student research competition. ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Conference Attendance CGO (etc) 2017 - Day 2

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Several of the talks were great and very interesting.  Other talks particularly needed further presentation practice.  Unfortunately, someti...