Teaching algorithms: a one-step look-ahead 2016-01-29 What does a one-step look-ahead for teaching discussion/recitation look like? (And first off, what is a one-step look-ahead? It’s a technical term used in planning algorithms in artificial intelligence, used here to mean that although it’s hard to plan out exactly what to teach for the whole semester, what if we instead plan locally (in time) ...

Teaching Algorithms: Part 1 2016-01-21 I want to write about teaching CS170 (Intro to CS Theory), but I don’t know how I feel about students reading my thoughts quiet yet, so maybe I’ll make these posts available later on. So that means that for now I can say anything. 🙂 EDIT (2016-07-10): Made the post public! Here’s what I tried today. Let the ...

Teaching recitation: post mortem 2012-05-30 I wrote previously about my insights as I started teaching 6.004. Well the semester is over, and I think it’s been a semester well done. I had a thoroughly amazing experience, and I just wanted to say a few words as I was reading through the course evaluation results that came out earlier today. MIT makes ...