Runestone was born during my 2010/11 sabbatical. We launched interactivepython.org in June of 2012 and used it in class in the fall of 2012 for the first time. The growth of Runestone has been steady over these last six years growing by about 1500 — 2000 students each semester …
more ...As this will be my final Ideas and Creations contribution I hope you will indulge me in a little look back over my relationship with Luther College and the teachers and professors that have made me who I am today.
The first person I want to mention is the man …
more ...Everyone wants to belong, and for a young man from a small town in southwest Minnesota who went to a small liberal arts college as an undergrad, the U of M can be a pretty intimidating place -- a real "pair a dime" shift if you will. I remember waiting in …
more ...I wonder how much data we have used this period? I asked my wife as we were streaming Premier League football on YouTube Tv at 4K resolution on Saturday morning. A few minutes later I had found the right page and was staring at a bright red bar graph that …
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The graph pretty much tells the story. Things are much better after upgrading to a server with two more CPUs! You can see that the latencies are below their old levels starting on the 19th.
This afternoon I dusted off my old Bank Teller simulation that I use in Data …
more ...Last tuesday my cloud infrastructure provider needed to reboot the physical HyperVisor where my virtual machine lives in order to upgrade the underlying operating system with fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. I was a bit worried as they said it would take 15 minutes but could …
Whenever I teach this JTerm course on entrepreneurship, friends and colleagues often ask me "do you miss it?" Meaning do I miss the business world. The answer has always been, "yes, but I love teaching even more." This year the answer is different, this year the answer is... "yes, and …
more ...The students are on the plane home, and I am now in Napa taking a few days of R&R and thinking about what I learned during the month of January. TLDR -- Lots! But the two things I would like to focus on are the answers to the questions:
Its been six or eight years since I've taken a group of students to the Computer History Museum, and am I ever glad that I made the stop this time. The museum has changed a lot over the years and this was by far the best visit ever.
The first …
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