Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam...
by mcguire on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:59PM
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Best professor:
1. Actually know something about, and be interested in, what they are teaching.
2. Being able to explain the subject without making a complete hash of it.
3. Being able to explain the subject without leaving me comotose in my desk-thing.
Extra credit for including tips and tricks that don't get covered in textbooks and are only known to people involved in the field. Plus, background and amusing stories about how the goofy nomenclature and such got the way it is.
On the other hand, when and where I was an undergraduate, if you were "still struggling to learn programming" after the first couple of semesters of programming and data structures (taught by aforementioned "CS education" people), then you were pretty thoroughly hosed. (There were, however, 1-course hour classes in individual programming languages, if you couldn't pick up those yourself.)
1. Actually know something about, and be interested in, what they are teaching.
2. Being able to explain the subject without making a complete hash of it.
3. Being able to explain the subject without leaving me comotose in my desk-thing.
Extra credit for including tips and tricks that don't get covered in textbooks and are only known to people involved in the field. Plus, background and amusing stories about how the goofy nomenclature and such got the way it is.
On the other hand, when and where I was an undergraduate, if you were "still struggling to learn programming" after the first couple of semesters of programming and data structures (taught by aforementioned "CS education" people), then you were pretty thoroughly hosed. (There were, however, 1-course hour classes in individual programming languages, if you couldn't pick up those yourself.)