As a community, we spend a lot of time debating best practices. Perhaps it's time we establish actual bad practices. Or as I like to put them, obfuscation techniques. To kick off this new series, I...
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Students Should Be Able to Build a Portfolio From Their Coursework
Computer science is a more creative field than academia gives it credit. In honor of that creativity, we really ought to be giving students more chances to create original work and build portfolios...
Why I’m No Longer Giving Paper Exams in My Computer Science Courses
I'm embracing the virtual world and moving all of my computer science exams online. Here's why!
Make TODO Lists More Meaningful By Reflecting on Your Values
Amid all the chaos of my daily TODO list, I was able to find order by sorting my tasks by my values. Maybe you'll find some "value" in this tip as well.
This week, I taught a lesson on hashing, and now I'm going to pass the highlights on to you!
Software design often involves coming to terms with abstraction. Today, we'll take about the two-layer approach, which can help you avoid worrying about implementation details.