April 30th, 2010 § 1
I wrote and acted in this skit for CS4 at Brown. Cs4 is an intro level CS course for likely non-concentrators (i.e. engineers). In it, we cover a whole bunch of Matlab and a small amount of C.
The skit is about pointers and is set in the Mushroom kingdom… It’s nowhere near as hardcore as the stuff that we did for CS15 but it’s my baby, so here it is.
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January 14th, 2010 § 0
I TA’d the introductory Java/Object Orientated Programming CS15 this past semester. It’s a pretty interesting course as an introduction, racing people who’ve never programmed in their lives straight through inheritance and polymorphism in the first half of the semester – pretty much before using a single operator. It can get pretty intense.
My job, aside from the universal holding office hours and grading papers was to create and maintain the website, as well as to do a couple of odd jobs such as the pictured poster (which really should have had more actual information on it). That said, holding office hours and actually teaching was by far the most fun part.
Anyway, I guess this post is most directed to people considering to apply to TA the course, so I’ll try to include some useful info. For one, it’s a lot of work, a lot of time (a fair number of people end up taking only three courses while TAing this class) and you’ll be terribly underpaid. Do it because you enjoy teaching or because you want too be more involved with the Brown CS department – whatever other reason you want. It’s also a really good way to become really familiar with the course material. Aside from academic stuff, you’ll be working really closely with 15 people or so and you’ll probably get to know at least some of them really well. You’ll have ample opportunity to get to know some of the students as well.
In short, apply! It’s worth it.