computer science education

software development concepts

How Should We Teach Computer Science?

Greg Wilson recently emailed me the following question: I'm teaching a software engineering class to third-year students at the University of Toronto starting in January, and would like to include at least one hour on deployment --- [deployment] never came up in any of my classes, and it&

programming concepts

Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

⚠ Please note, this paper was ultimately retracted by its author (pdf) in 2014: In 2006 I wrote an intemperate description of the results of an experiment carried out by Saeed Dehnadi. Many of the extravagant claims I made were insupportable, and I retract them. I continue to believe, however, that