Teaching, Playing, and Programming

See also Eating My Way Across Kauai New for Lost fans: see extra links at the end of the post We had fewer days on Oahu than Kauai, and p...

See also Eating My Way Across Oahu I love to eat, so I'm going to temporarily hijack this blog with some dining recommendations from ou...

For the last several years, I've held an in-class tournament on the last class day before Thanksgiving. Everybody's mind is elsewhe...

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...