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Long time CS Professor who studied Mathematics. Dr. Buffy if you want to be formal. Not a dog, but not as cute as my avatar either.

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158 Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS? May 7 '18
153 How bad is a Computer Science course that doesn't teach Design Patterns? Feb 16
139 Is it bad to force my students not to return early? Mar 9 '18
95 What advantages do students who learn how to touch type have? Jun 18 '18
64 Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program? Oct 30 '17
57 Why do we count starting from zero? Sep 3 '18
52 Should I teach that 1 KB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes? Mar 9 '18
46 How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself? Feb 26 '18
40 Is it important to teach pointers in a first course using Java? Jul 15 '17
40 Assisting students with large programming assignments takes too long in class Sep 7 '17
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