Category Archives: programming

April 10, 2013
3:53 am
by: lilengineerthatcould

ToDo: Make ECE2524 Obsolete

Why would I want to eliminate the course that I’ve been teaching the past four semesters, that I have put so many hours into to update content, create new assignments, written (and re-written each semester… another topic altogether) a set … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in ece2524s13, engineering education, GEDI, programming, vtclis13

March 5, 2013
4:27 am
by: lilengineerthatcould

Are we sacrificing creativity for content?

I decided to become an engineer, before even knowing what “engineering” was, because of a comment my 4th grade art teacher made regarding an art project. I’m pretty sure she meant it as a complement. The concept of “<insert form … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in art, code, creativity, ece2524s13, expression, programming, vtclis13

February 26, 2013
4:00 am
by: lilengineerthatcould

I am a Selfish Git: A bit on my teaching philosophy

A common observation I encounter from people who have taken my class is that there is less structure in the assignments than they are used to, and oftentimes less than they would like. A consequence of this is that participants … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in ece2524s13, learning, programming, Teaching, vtclis13

December 7, 2012
4:46 pm
by: lilengineerthatcould

Structure, Language and Art

In a recent post tylera5 commented that the last time he wrote poetry was in high school, and wasn’t expecting to have to write a poem for a programming course. I got the idea for a poetry assignment from a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in ECE2524, engineering, expression, GEDI, language, poetry, programming

October 1, 2012
3:35 pm
by: lilengineerthatcould

Response to “Advanced Python exercises”

Recently Matt brought up some good points in his post Advanced Python exercises.  First, the more easily addressed one: To break up a Python program into multiple functions, just store related functions in a separate `.py` file, then in the main … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in ECE2524, exceptions, programming, Python, response

September 8, 2012
2:27 am
by: lilengineerthatcould

Mary Poppins

I just finished up Ruby – Day 3 from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.  I can’t say I fully grok everything that I’ve done, but Ruby seemed fairly straight forward and in many ways similar to Python (though I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in 7languages7weeks, ECE2524, programming, ruby