Education
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Why Aren’t You Testing Your Code?
→: Why Aren’t You Testing Your Code?On Tuesday, I told the lab of first years I TA that they were going to test their code. Then one of them started asking me about a quiz. Erm? No clue. So I said, no we’re going to test your code. And he talks about a quiz some more. It’s all very confusing, but…
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Graduate School
→: Graduate SchoolI went back to school because I didn’t think I knew enough to go and join the real world, yet. Then I got to graduate school, and realized it wasn’t the place to learn it. I’m not a better programmer than I was before I came. I know a little more about some things, but…
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Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier
→: Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier15 Tools to Make University Easier View more presentations from Cate Huston. See the original blogpost.
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The Future
→: The FutureThe other day, I blogged about how technology education had to better prepare students for the future, but I didn’t come up with many ideas for how. Ultimately, it’s hard to prepare for the unknown and I evade predictions about the details. It’s really hard to educate for the future, if you don’t know what…
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Why Women are Better Programmers
→: Why Women are Better ProgrammersFrom Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All “I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest.” Love it! And I totally want to learn stats now, too.
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Mini-Generation Gaps
→: Mini-Generation GapsWhen I gave the Holiday Science lecture, one of the things that I touched on briefly was how my childhood was unrecognizable compared to the childhood of children 10 years my junior. This article – The Children of Cyberspace – from the New York Times elaborates on that further. From the article: “Researchers are exploring…
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5 Things I Learned at Boarding School
→: 5 Things I Learned at Boarding SchoolFor my last two years of school, I was at a fancy English boarding school. This is not something I write about or talk about much, because it was not the most enjoyable experience (so, normal for high school!). However like everything, there are some important lessons for life that I got out of it.…
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Burning Out
→: Burning OutI’ve been offered several great opportunities lately, and because of where I am in life (finishing up grad school, building my CV to find a job in the next 6 months or so) I plan on taking all of them. My boyfriend and some of my friends call me a workoholic. I’m OK with that…