Teaching, Playing, and Programming

Warning: this is probably only of interest to functional programmers. Maciej Kotowicz recently asked on the Haskell Cafe mailing list abou...

One of my favorite textbooks on algorithms—in spite of the fact that it's twenty years old—is Udi Manber's Introduction to Algorithm...

From math, we know that X < Y is the same as Y > X. But in programming, they're not the same. Oh, I'm not talking about situ...

I've written before about trying to diagnose students' broken or ineffective mental models from the mistakes they make. Here's...

I watched the movie Proof last night. I highly recommend it. It's not often that mathematicians get so much screen time. The nature ...

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've always enjoyed the mathematical tradition of “proofs without words”, so I wanted to see if something similar could be done with an ...