Today I walked into my Sennott Square classroom for CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information for the last time this semester. The last class is always somewhat bittersweet, with some students excited that they won’t have to complete weekly skills labs anymore, and others dismayed that they won’t share as many classes with…
Author: Griffin Hurt
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…