A Personal Pantagraph

When I was younger, I had a clear idea of what I wanted for my 40th birthday: maybe a $400,000 plane, maybe a $40,000 sports car, depending on my finances. The fateful birthday came and went last week, and I’m a professor, so my finances are nowhere near what I expected. I settled [...]

This is the second in a series of entries regarding the future of computer science education. In the previous entry, I talked about what the purpose of computer science education is, and I concluded that it was important to start from the bottom up; i.e., by considering what the students want out of the [...]