Teaching, Playing, and Programming

Is it time to overhaul the user interface of the phone system? A few months ago we started getting a lot of calls that were wrong numbers. ...

A number of years ago, I used to compete in the TopCoder on-line programming contests. As an educator, I was fascinated by the TopCoder env...

The next in an irregular series of board game (or, in this case, card game) recommendations for programmers. Of course, you don't have t...

One of my most memorable conversations with a student happened a few years ago. I was grading a programming project, and something in one o...

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 ...