Teaching

Course Materials

All materials for courses I am currently teaching are available through Memorial University´s D2L (Desire2Learn) system.


(MUN's D2L portal ).

 

Flash Animations for Introductory Programming Concepts

I have produced Flash animations to describe, through analogies, how the most essential elements of programming work: loops, branching, function calls, etc. These animations use analogies where the CPU travels and executes code acting as a train that follows train tracks and switches rails according to the rules of structured programming. Since this is a way of illustrating flow diagrams, I used the term "train track diagrams" to describe these animations. Another analogy is used where a cellular biological process look-alike is used to explain parameter passing and function/method calls.

(Train track diagrams).

These are the courses I have taught:

At TRU:
• COMP 100 Introduction to Information Technology
• COMP 113 Introduction to Programming
• COMP 152 Introduction to Programming for Engineers
• COMP 221 Introduction to Visual Programming
• COMP 482 Interactive Computer Graphics
• COMP 483 Multimedia Application Development
• COMP 345/498 Human-Computer Interaction Design

At Memorial:
• COMP 2760 Encountering the Computer
• COMP 4752/6720 Computer Graphics Undergraduate & Graduate