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I'm a CS professor and chair at a primarily undergraduate college. I've advised several students over the years who have gone on to be admitted to PhD programs at top-20 schools. H…

I recall discussing this in an integer programming class many years ago, and being told that binary variables were the better option. This Stack Exchange post seems to confirm: htt…

The term you're looking for is competency-based education. If you can demonstrate that you meet the learning goals for a course, usually by taking an exam, you get credit for it. Y…

I used to teach intro programming at a summer camp for high school students and now teach full-time at an undergraduate college. Two tips: 1. Don't worry about "impressive" project…

I worked for a few years and then went back to a Ph.D. program. It's now possible to do an M.S. while you're working. There are now a number of good online programs, with Georgia T…

My first experience was teaching a summer CS course for high school students. They came from around the state to the campus where I was a grad student for three weeks and we met fo…

My experience is college-level teaching and faculty mentoring. There's a huge literature of both popular and scholarly books on developing effective teaching. You can look into the…

Here are some projects that I've assigned in my programming and algorithms classes. All of these projects can be done in Python or any other language. For general object-oriented p…

It's great that your interested in education research. It's a great area to study and you have the potential to have a lot of impact on students. There are exceptions, but the real…

I'm a CS professor at a primarily-undergraduate U.S. college. I supervise two to four independent research projects or honors theses every year and have published papers and poster…

I'm a CS professor and department chair at a primarily-undergraduate college with a lot of experience conducting searches and hiring. I can give you some perspective on teaching po…