Do We Teach Addition Backwards?
Addition, for me, is intimately connected up with my concept of a number. When I think of numbers in my head, I often think of the number in connection with its constituent parts, and when I divide...
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…realizing that the class you are teaching for the first time this quarter ends on the half hour, not the hour, and therefore the fact that you are rushing through the material must seem extremely...
View ArticleCSE 322 Spring 2008, Week 1
This quarter I am teaching CSE 322: Introduction to Formal Models in Computer Science. Good fun. As part of my teaching I am LaTeXing up lecture notes from the class, which follow closely the book we...
View ArticleCSE 322 Week 2: Nondeterminism Rocks
Last week, in the class I’m teaching, we talked about the basics of deterministic finite automata. In week two we moved on to more interesting and slightly less basic material. In particular we...
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Teacher of the Year
For a second straight year, the winner of the U.S. Teacher of the Year, is a University of Washington graduate. Of course I’m not supposed to say that, as not bragging is an sacred northwest tradition....
View ArticleSchool’s Out For Summer…Almost
Today is the final exam for the course I’ve been teaching this summer. So I need some reading material for when I’m not watching the students take their exam. Here are two fun ones I just downloaded...
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Will the Real Reason For Quantum Theory Please Stand Up?
Michael Nielsen has a nice essay up explaining Why the world needs quantum mechanics: Conventional wisdom holds that quantum mechanics is hard to learn. This is more or less correct, although often...
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Make Em Laugh, Make Em Cry
Scenes from today’s CSE 322 (introduction to formal methods in computer science) final:
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