I've been teaching beginning CIS courses over the past 5 years, but now I've retired from the teaching biz. Teaching can be rewarding, but it also can be frustrating. Eventually the frustration overcame the reward and it was time for me to move on.
As a fellow instructor said, "Who will fail the students now?" Probably nobody. Pass 'em on; keep 'em enrolled. Keep the headcount high. That's the goal of most schools, but it was never mine.
I wanted students to learn. I gave them detailed evaluations of their programs and told them explicitly what to do to make their programs better.
In most classes a few students did quite well. Most did not. Most obviously never even opened the textbook and then complained when they couldn't do the work and received a failing grade. Sigh.
They are not my problem any more!
I'm still writing code. Most recently I wrote in Python a boardgame simulator for TMD: Total Musical Domination. That was fun. Then I wrote a card game simulator for FAB: Form a Band. I'll always be a computer scientist even if I'm not being paid to be one any more.
As a fellow instructor said, "Who will fail the students now?" Probably nobody. Pass 'em on; keep 'em enrolled. Keep the headcount high. That's the goal of most schools, but it was never mine.
I wanted students to learn. I gave them detailed evaluations of their programs and told them explicitly what to do to make their programs better.
In most classes a few students did quite well. Most did not. Most obviously never even opened the textbook and then complained when they couldn't do the work and received a failing grade. Sigh.
They are not my problem any more!
I'm still writing code. Most recently I wrote in Python a boardgame simulator for TMD: Total Musical Domination. That was fun. Then I wrote a card game simulator for FAB: Form a Band. I'll always be a computer scientist even if I'm not being paid to be one any more.
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