Blog of Stuff: Blog of Stuff

Earlier today, I became aware of the story of Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for the incredibly popular matplotlib, a library used for graphing in Python.

The following is a collection of department-specific office hour links pages.

(EDIT: I’ve rewritten and softened the text below, based on some valuable feedback from people that pointed out that I was wrong.

I think I’m not alone in suggesting that the tree, and perhaps the binary tree specifically, is the most foundational data structure in computer science.

This is a short blog post about Prabakhar Ragde’s “Logic and Computation Intertwined”, or “LACI”, currently available online at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/LACI/ Here is a bad thing about LACI: every time I search for it, my search engine s…

Yesterday was the election!

I don’t have time to write an actual essay here, so I’m just going to take a 5-minute break from what I should actually be doing to share with all of you (my millions of adoring readers) a thought that I’m having while teaching engineering non-majors how…

Peaceful disagreement is the foundation of our American government.

So, this post isn’t very timely: hopefully COVID–19 will soon go away and we’ll all return to forms of education that actually work.

I was forwarded this today.

Based on their full-page advertisements in various newspapers, Facebook is extremely upset about Apple’s upcoming move to make cross-app privacy the default.

NOTE: this text is a brief overview intended for instructors of a CS course that we’re developing; it is not technical.

I’ve updated the dependency chart to match the 2019–2020 catalog.

Again: not too much new here, but the spring and fall quarters quarter is new: Here’s the college as a whole (we’re better):

Not too much new here, but the winter quarter is new: Here’s the college as a whole (we’re better):

My name is John Clements.

Okay, I’ve replaced this blog post with a perma-link so I can update it without keeping huge amounts of old data around: permanent location

Some good news, here.

As part of our work on our recent SIGCSE paper (citation forthcoming), I took another look at our numbers of incoming students.

Do we need to go through this again?