Has it been that long since I posted here?

Apparently I did not create a blog post here for a full year. 

Good for me. I have a life and I've been living it. Not that I don't have a life at this moment now that I'm posting a blog post again, but I was updating this website with the software I've created recently and checked in on my blog post and saw how lazy I've been. 

Most of my mental energy over the past year has been put into teaching and trying out ideas on how to teach beginning programming to my students. I've had some successes and I've had some failures - mine, not my students. As always, teaching is rewarding, challenging, and frustrating -- sometimes all in the same hour!