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Ellen Spertus
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I am a computer science professor at Mills College and a visiting research engineer at Mozilla while on sabbatical. I used to work at Google on projects such as App Inventor (which I still contribute to), Blockly, and the Hour of Code. I have done research in computer architecture, compilers, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and data mining.

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121 Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS? May 7 '18
63 Why do computer-science majors learn calculus? Apr 27 '19
57 How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s? Aug 4 '17
54 Why did the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees going to women peak in 1984? Jul 23 '17
51 Should test cases be made available to students for assessed assignments? Jun 25 '17
31 How to prepare students for bias in industry Jun 26 '17
28 How do you encourage students to take criticism of their code constructively? Jul 5 '17
27 How important is learning Binary for first-year college students? Jun 22 '17
24 How to prepare students for bias in industry Jun 26 '17
23 Should teachers enforce standardization of spacing and braces? Jul 6 '17
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