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Lawrence Snyder Emeritus Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington |
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| Welcome! I've been a professor at UW CSE for 2.8 decades, but have now retired. To celebrate my retirement, I gave a Valedictory Lecture. The title was A Microcentury of Computational Miscellany. Check it out! |
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Computer Science Principles A new project is underway to create a concepts-rich CS course for general students. Eventually it will become the basis for a high school advanced placement course and test. Students learn the fundamentals of computer science, analogous to other high school science classes. I am on the Advisory Committee for the effort, and taught one of the five pilot versions of the course in Winter 2011. Teacher-ready materials here. ⊠ AP CS Principles -- Information for students about UW's CSE120, offered Wi 2011 ⊠ The "Case" For A New AP -- Information for CS Professors and Chairs ⊠ Official AP CS Principles Site -- Basic documents regarding the core of CS ⊠ CS Principles -- UW's CSE120, offered Wi 2012 | |
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Fluency with Information Technology
⊠ Fluency 4th Edition
⊠ Video Notes Fluency is presently in its 4th edition, and I thank everyone for all of their terrific feedback. Fluency 5th edition is in press right now. It is a sweeping revision, and I'm delighted with it. This new edition presents the core Fluency concepts from a "second decade of the 21st century" perspective. All new end-of-chapter exercises are contributed by Susan Evans; all new labs are contributed by Ray Henry, the developer of the videos notes in the 4th edition. Fluency Student: Check the Page Source for this page ... you can understand it after studying Chapter 4 | |
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Principles of Parallel Programming
⊠ Principles || Programming
⊠ Errata
⊠ CSE524 Calvin Lin and I collaborated on this textbook to teach the fundamentals of parallel programming. We deeply appreciate all of the great feedback and comments we have received from our colleagues. Thanks! The book is just now in its second printing, so if you find an error please report it. The errata page is for the first printing, but we will add a separate section for 2nd printing errors. I taught a Professional Masters class (CSEP 524) from this book in Spring 2010. | |
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Valedictory Lecture
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⊠ Lecture Video A Microcentury of Computational Miscellany A micro-century (uC) is 52.6 minutes, the optimum length for a college lecture in the opinion of people who worry about such things. A valedictory lecture, a concept with a British pedigree, is a ponderous speech on an arcane topic of no apparent interest to anyone but the speaker. (Retiring academics, after several thousand micro-centuries in the classroom, are wonderfully well prepared to deliver them.) Miscellany, of course, is a collection of diverse things, odds and ends with no unifying theme. |
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Other Important Links To Remember ⊠ Brief Professional Biography -- Great bedtime reading ⊠ "How I Teach Fluency" at UW -- A little dated, but perhaps helpful ⊠ My last CSE100 ⊠ BENEFIT -- A free, self-paced Fluency class for independent students ⊠ ZPL -- The last parallel programming project I directed still has great information ⊠ Being Fluent -- The NRC report that launched the fluency effort ⊠ World Tour 1 -- A lap of the planet in 2001/02 writing a book | |
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