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Lawrence Snyder Emeritus Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington |
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| Welcome! I was a professor at UW CSE for 2.8 decades, and retired in 2010, which makes me an Emeritus Professor. So, I teach one class per year (CSE120 Computer Science Principles), advise UW in the High Schools, serve on ACM committees, write, and travel a lot. |
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Computer Science Principles Having served on the AP Computer Science Principles Advisory Committee, I taught one of the five first round pilot versions of AP CS Principles in Winter Quarter 2011. This class continues to evolve and improve, as the four offerings illustrate: ⊠ CSE120 CS Principles, Wi '11 -- Class Home ⊠ CSE120 CS Principles, Wi '12 -- Class Home ⊠ CSE120 CS Principles, Wi '13 -- Class Home ⊠ CSE120 CS Principles, Wi '14 -- Class Home I'm happy to share the source files for this class with instructors - contact me. | |
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Fluency with Information Technology
⊠ Fluency 5th Edition
Fluency is presently in its 6th edition! Fluency 6th edition is another major revision, and I'm delighted with it. This new edition presents the core Fluency concepts from a "second decade of the 21st century" perspective. It has been updated to comply with HTML5, CSS3, newest versions of database software, mobile. As described in the forward, Fluency can be used as a text for teaching the Computer Science Principles content. Fluency Students: 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 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. | |
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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 ⊠ 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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