Past Teaching

2025-06-25

Teaching

I am very interested in programming and computer science education. I have strong opinions about how programming should be taught.

I taught UPenn's CIS198 Rust Programming Fall 2018, Fall 2019. This course strongly focuses on:

Understanding what a systems language is and motivating Rust via the shortcomings of C and C++.
Understanding the design and performance trade-offs of Rust vs other languages (static types, garbage collection, zero cost abstraction, etc).
Good software engineering practices (e.g. testing, robust error handling, and writing idiomatic, maintainable code).
Understanding not just the language, but the larger language ecosystem (libraries, build tools, programming tools, etc).

I was happy to help co-teach the Rustbridge workshop at Colorado Gold Rust 2019 in Denver, CO! Link to Github Repo.