The “Big Ideas” of Teaching

Teaching CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information this Fall is both similar and different to last Spring. The largest deviation from last semester is the change in student population: most students taking the course in the Fall are freshmen, while those in the Spring tend to be upperclassmen. Although this has positively affected…

CUTF Introduction: Griffin Hurt

Last fall, I started my education at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing a degree in computer science, and one of the first courses I took was CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information. The course is a general education requirement in the School of Computing and Information and centers around some of the overarching…