Teaching, Playing, and Programming

This is a story my son and I wrote together when he was four. He came up with the basic story. I helped with the English and with the turt...

Students are rarely given an opportunity to design an algorithmically non-trivial data structure. We might give them a scenario and ask the...

I usually don't teach our Data Structures course, but I often give a guest lecture about balanced binary search trees. This comes right...

Last week, I had lunch with some friends of mine, all college-level instructors. I brought up the subject of creativity, which has been muc...

I'm always fascinated by the kinds of programming mistakes that novices make, and what they say about that student's state of mind. ...

The next in an irregular series of board game recommendations for programmers. Of course, you don't have to be a programmer to enjoy the...

I recently stumbled across the TED video by Ken Robinson (via Joshua Gans ). This video is almost two years old, so I'm getting to it ...