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Discipline in the classroom (a cautionary tale)

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A funny thing happened to me the other day: one of my students called me a monkey.

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It’s like learning a new language!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

You know how when you’re learning a new language, at some point you reach a magical tipping point where it suffuses your life to such an extent that you start to dream in that language, instead of your mother tongue? Last night I dreamed I was setting homework and preparing a lecture. And as I [...]

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Surviving the first week

Monday, September 7, 2009

For my first philosophy class I had three students. For my first programming class, fifty-five. The philosophy folks had a mixup with the scheduling, so that almost everyone from both my group and Robert’s group ended up going to his class. We sorted out the problem, more or less, so my second class had … [...]

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Prologophile

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I’m going to teach Prolog next semester! To Dutch students starting out in Artificial Intelligence! It’s going to be great fun, shaping their innocent beginning-programmer minds. The course is about half Prolog and half AI-as-search; and I’m completely In Charge. (There will be assistents for the lab sessions, we expect about 30-40 students so it’s [...]

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