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A CS Professor's blog
Personal blog · teachingintrotocs.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer
A CS Professor's blog is a personal blog at teachingintrotocs.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a Yale thread reply about Brown's TA staffing and does not discuss this blog's writing. From its name and URL, the blog appears to be a CS professor's writing on teaching introductory CS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Brown has been doing this from the start of its CS department in the 80s (this probably developed because we don't have very many graduate students), as far as I can tell. The only difference is that the undergraduate Head TAs are typically "higher" in the food chain of responsibility than the Graduate TAs (who are more responsible for course development). This worked incredibly well: in 2011, one of our three intro…
Comment linking /2011/09/teaching-with-army-of-tas.html
on “Yale Computer Science Dept overworked, understaffed”Submitted A tradition that deserves to die as a story · 2 points
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