Enrollments in undergraduate computer science courses, the number of students majoring in computer science, and the number of students graduating with a degree in computer science has been declining since the 200-2001 academic year. “Continued Drop in CS Bachelor’s Degree Production and Enrollments as the Number of New Majors Stabilizes” published by the Computing Research […]
Tagged cs, enrollmentsThird class meetings today. We arrived home at 12:30 this morning from a trip to Santa Fe for the weekend. Things went OK, but a little rocky. CPSC 110 Original list of topics activities wasn’t completed. But that’s OK. I told students about my background and a little about the notion of a programming language. […]
Second class meetings today. Still feeling my way. CPSC 110 Original list of topics activities wasn’t completed. But that’s OK. I spent some time getting to know the students and hopefully they are getting to know each other a little better. It doesn’t seem that there are more than 1 or 2 who might want […]
First day of classes today. Things seems to go well. Got students in to the lab the first day. No big glitches. CPSC 110 Gave out instructions for starting to use paprika. A couple of password issues, but we had good support from Bob Gartland and David Dean. Weldon Burt is the lab aide. For […]
Yet another great entry in A List apart. This one is abut writing and Web design: “Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!” by Derek Powazek. One part I especially liked: It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it […]
The eleventh annual Mary Washington (was College now University) Faculty Academy is scheduled to start tomorrow, May 16, 2006. It looks like yet another excellent lineup of speakers and presentations, and some great guest speakers – Rachel Smith, New Media Consortium, Cyprien Lomas, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative scholar-in-residence, and Jon Udell, Infoworld Magazine. I’m involved in […]
Tagged faculty academyFor the first time ever, the Mathematics and the Computer Science Departments at Mary Washington held a joint reception for students who will be graduating tomorrow. It went really well and was an excellent idea to jointly offer a reception for the students from both departments. Students started showing up a little before 3 and […]
The question of correcting input stream errors came up in class the other day. There is some info at “Advanced USL I/O Stream Tasks” dealing with that situation.
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Teaching with/without technology
A Brain and A Book is yet another excellent article on teaching by James M. Lang. It appears in the May 29, 2007 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education in the section Chronicle Careers. Lang begins with some of the points made by Marc Prensky in his essay “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” That widely […]