So, I bought myself a new Bike over the weekend. The Companion had taken their’s to the local bike shop for a so-called beginning of the season “tune-up”, and I was “elected” to pick the bike up after the shop called, saying it was ready… Sorry – let’s backtrack a few steps and give you some background of my […]
Thoughts about Introverts
I ran across a posting by my former co-worker Terry Olson on FB about the following. I then searched for the original posting and I think I found it here: 10 Myths About Introverts I wrote this list in late-2008. Around that time, I was lucky enough to discover a book called, The Introvert Advantage […]
Final Grade: SEIS 610 Software Engineering Spring 2013
So, I went onto the Saint Thomas website today, looking for my final grade – I did this last week but apparently may have been looking in the wrong place, since Dr. Lai doesn’t use the “Black Board” tool where grades were posted in our Technical communications class last Fall. Anyway, I found my grade […]
Teaching kids computer science (AKA programming) [Pioneer Press article]
Front page article from last Sunday’s (4/27) Pioneer Press by Christopher Magan: Headline: Computer-coding classes teach students skills they’re not getting in school. Obi Abulu loves computers. “He learned to click a mouse before he learned to write,” says Attracta Abulu, the Woodbury seventh-grader’s mother. But when it came to learning more about how the […]
U/Saint Thomas – Fall registration, etc.
Second to last class session today. Working with classmates on group project tomorrow afternoon, and again next weekend each time for a few hours. Then, 5/18 is final class, 30 min presentation for group project, 2 homework assignments due AND the final exam. Group project is 25% of final grade and I think final exam […]
