• NEW in April, 2007: Reviewing a Presentation or Short Course — Did this meeting meet your expectations?

• Academics Fail to Instill Professionalism -- Some concerns about the state of computer science and information systems teaching in American univerisities.

• Teaching C++ -- Unique Challenges (5 pages): An analysis of problems and opportunities in developing or choosing C++/OOP courses. Most of these principles apply also to Java.
• Learning to program -- It Starts with Procedural (2 pages) A discussion of programming paradigms for a first course in programming.

• C++ is not a Binary Skill (and neither is Java) -- a comment on a widespread naive view of programming.

• Give Boot Camps the Boot! -- Issue of the month for February, 2001.

A surprising but important controversy

1. Pseudo Object-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful (originally published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, April, 2002)
2. That was a 1-page rebuttal to an opinion piece in the October, 2001, ACM Communications, "Hello, World Considered Harmful", pp. 129-130.
3. My rebuttal article [1] then elicited a vigorous dissent supporting [2] from two academic authors in the October, 2003, ACM Communications, "On Pseudo Object-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful", pp 115-117.
4. Finally, Chenglie Hu supported [1] in the February, 2005, ACM Communications, "Dataless Objects Considered Harmful", pp.99-101.

Read all four and decide for yourself what makes good sense for both computer-science pedagogy and development methodology. - CW