In my latest rant, I want to talk about Google's absurd decision to add generative AI to its search engine.
Welcome to The Renegade Coder, a site for people interested in Python programming and college teaching! Join me on Patreon for even more content.
Latest Articles
When I hear an instructor described as "easy," I start to wonder what that really means. Today, I want to analyze the idea within the context of my own teaching.
I'm writing this article because I recently caught myself writing a somewhat nasty message to a student at the end of a long academic year. I had sent the message, did some reading, and later...
With yet another school year in the books, I wanted to take a moment to talk about one of the worst parts of being an educator: grading. More specifically, I want to talk about how grading gets in...
How to Automatically Calculate Letter Grades, But Every Solution Is Bad
Let's say you have your grade as a percentage. Would you be able to write a code segment that could convert that percentage to a letter grade? That's a question that blew up recently on Twitter, and...
Student evaluations of teaching are a norm across college campuses, but just about every ounce of research on their use has shown negative outcomes. No more is this true than in my place of work,...