Teaching, Playing, and Programming

Many sites exist for trading objects or services of various kinds—my favorite example is a site for trading right or left shoes . Over on B...

About four years ago, I created my own programming language for teaching. I'll probably write more about this language at some other tim...

In addition to teaching and programming, I also enjoy playing board games. This is the first in an irregular series of game recommendations ...

In 1998, I published a book called Purely Functional Data Structures . Ten years later, the book is still selling well. (Every time I get ...

A big part of learning to program is building up effective mental models for how various logical structures work. A big part of learning to...

Several years ago, I was advising a student on some code he had written for a data structures class. This code performed a set of actions on...

This essay was originally written for a talk I was giving to brand new faculty members. I'll let it stand as an introduction to one of m...