Teaching

AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...

Open answers to a reader's letter.

In this essay, Carson Gross thinks about the best way for the university to prepare students in the AI era.

An internal Slack message I shared with the Amp team a few weeks ago.

The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a...

COMMENTARY: In an era when AI can write anything, authentic education must go beyond the mere production of words.

In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...

Six books I recommend to my students that aren't even about coding.

A long list of topics for undergraduate software engineering.

What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber...

The conundrum in every classroom

As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools,...

Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.

Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.

[Epistemic Status: Not that confident. I’ll footnote stuff I’m even less confident1 on or more confident2 on. I’m only writing this ~3.5 years after starting to...

The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?

How computing instructors plan to adapt to ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding assistants (ICER 2023 paper)

Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better. Sometimes the gaps in our knowledge only become clear when explaining things to others.

I've often been asked about coding bootcamps versus traditional university degrees. While coding bootcamps promise a fast track into the tech industry with...

Le débat sur l’IA à l’université se focalise sur la tricherie. Mais le véritable enjeu est ailleurs : c’est tout l’écosystème de formation et de production du...

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Construire son environnement de travail avec des logiciels libres

Blog by Walid Dib featuring learning insights into game development with Godot, and building startups in the Middle East.

Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.

What AI-optimized schools misunderstand about learning

What makes a good group project? What should students learn? How should they be graded?

Les réflexions nécropolitiques du Père Duchesne

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go

As someone who has spent the last decade leading developer relations teams, teaching at coding... Tagged with programming, beginners.

Computer science professor Brian Kernighan GS ’69 left a career in emerging computer science research to pursue his passion for teaching. He shared his...

Here's the latest news from the zombie wars

This post is part of a behind-the-scenes series about how I obtain and prepare for opportunities like podcast interviews, speaking gigs, and instruction roles....

A while back, I wrote a post about syllabus design while creating a syllabus for an iOS course. In the end I taught that course from the department's existing...

I sometimes write about what I'm learning from teaching computer science courses: first an iOS Development course, and now a course of my own design called...

I sometimes write about what I’m learning from teaching computer science courses: first an iOS Development course, and now a course of my own design called...

Hi. I’m Chelsea Troy. I’m a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing a series about designing my course, Mobile Software Development....

Hi. I'm Chelsea Troy. I'm a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing about the techniques I use to teach my distributed course,...

Hi. I'm Chelsea Troy. I'm a computer science educator at the University of Chicago. I'm writing about the techniques I use to teach my distributed course,...

This is an adapted version of the text of the email that I sent to my blog subscribers on May 16, 2023. I placed it on my blog as an example of what you can...

We received over 2,500 job applications. Fewer than 100 filled a form with open-ended questions. About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world...

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

Ivan Illich (1926 – 2002) est un penseur de l’écologie politique. Prêtre catholique, il crée en 1956 un centre de formation dans la communauté portoricaine à...

Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps

Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.

The Unix Philosophy defines a culture of how to write tooling in the Unix world. At its core, the Unix Philosophy is about designing tools that work together. ...

Making tech more diverse and welcoming by bringing people together and helping teach programming skills.

Consider interactivity over showing over telling.

A series of instructional web pages for instructors and teaching teams about using AI tools for teaching and learning.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class. He asked somebody to raise their...

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

Traduction d'un article de Nicholas C. Zakas. Contribute to MaNDRaXe/ingenieurs-grincheux development by creating an account on GitHub.

This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.

This spring, I taught an undergraduate class on chess engines. I probably learned more than any of my students.

Effective writing for software developers

This lead me to think about my experience in college and in my career. It’s easy to say colleges don’t teach useful software development, but how true is that?

As someone that writes code on a regular basis, you must view a lot (if not all) of your work as problem-solving. After all, that's often what you're hired for.

This site has grown a lot in the last year or so. We've spent a lot of time going over object-oriented solutions to WordPress problems. So much so that…

As you lay there, you try to remember how you got into this mess. It seemed like it was going to be so easy. You'd heard that object-oriented programming was…

For the last year and a half, I've been teaching everything I know to the WordPress community. This hasn't been easy to do and it's been quite a journey so far!

I spoke at WordCamp Atlanta 2017 on how you could use teaching as a learning tool. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking...