Preparing for the next term
It is the end of the Fall term. My final exam is tomorrow at 9 and after I have gone through the mad rush of marking them before Christmas and assigning grades, vacations will be here, which means one...
View ArticleMy cool CMPUT 301 class this Fall (2010)
This term I decided to do something risky: namely I decided to give a “practically” real project to my undergraduate software-engineering class, CMPUT 301, based on the City of Edmonton’s (CoE) open...
View ArticleGod is in the Detail
I have had two interesting (and rather intense) professional experiences recently, which made me say to myself a few times “the Devil is in the Details”. And I wanted to reflect (i.e., think aloud)...
View ArticleWhat makes a good project for a software-engineering course?
I, and, I know, many of my colleagues too, fret over designing our project-based courses. Courses in the computing-science sub-disciplines within the generally construed “systems/applications” area,...
View ArticleOn the importance of UCOSP
This past weekend I hosted the UCOSP code sprint at the University of Alberta. About 40 students and 7 project mentors came here for an intensive weekend-long session of software development. UCOSP –...
View ArticleMy interview with the Anita Borg Institute
I was interviewed as a “Senior Technical Woman” by the Anita Borg Institute and the content of this profile can be found at...
View ArticleI have failed… no question about it; two weeks gone by and no update; yet another resolution who did not stand up the test of time; but never mind, such is life; one simply has to recognize failure,...
View ArticleMaria Klawe on “Teaching Trials and Triumphs”
This afternoon I attended Maria Klawe’s keynote for the UoA’s Festival of Teaching 2011 (https://provost.sitecore.ualberta.ca/en/FestivalofTeaching2011.aspx), on “Teaching Trials and Triumphs”. How...
View ArticleWhat it means to teach
We just lost a colleague in my department (http://piotrrudnicki.blogspot.ca/). He fought intensely, but for far too short a time, the disease that, in Greek, we do not name; we just say the “cursed...
View ArticleThe drama of conferencing
The conference experience can been anywhere between exhilarating and draining, almost always at the same time. To the extent that the social lives of researchers and scholars includes drama, it unfolds...
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