I came across an interesting discussion regarding the role math should in computer science on SIGCSE’s(ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education consisting of CS professors) mailing list. A professor starts the conversation with (I personally bolded the important bits): “I understand that discussing the role of math in CS is one of those religious [...]
Author Archives: Dean Chen
Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors
Posted in Interesting, Life, Politics, Random, Tech, Web Development Tagged ACM, Computer Science, CS, Education, Math, SIGSE, University 29 Comments
Aptana, the Ideal IDE for Drupal and Web Development
An Introduction I’ve tried many IDEs from easier to use IDEs like Adobe Dreamweaver to more advanced IDEs like Zend Studio. I’ve used Dreamweaver for more than 5 years, only coder view for its code coloring and FTP integration. Although the HTML from Dreamweaver’s designer view may be satisfactory for simple HTML pages the code [...]
Posted in Web Development Tagged Aptana, CSS, Dreamweaver, Drupal, Eclipse, GPL, HTML, Javascript, PHP, The Chronicle, Zend Studio 8 Comments
An Analysis of Obama’s Tax Proposals
The Brookings Institute, one of Washington’s most respected think tanks, has a very informative page on Obama’s and McCain’s tax policies(McCain’s policies aren’t of significance for obvious reasons). Obama is officially going to be our president today, so it’s about time I’ve fully analyzed his policies and adjust my behavior accordingly. To my surprise, his [...]
Posted in Economics, Life, Politics Tagged Analysis, Brookings Institute, Capital Gains, College, McCain, Middle Class, Mortage, Obama, Public Policy, Savings Rate, Tax, US, Welfare 4 Comments
Graduation Speech
Good evening everybody. As I stood in front of our graduating class this morning, something hit me… I’ve never seen half of you before, and don’t know the names of the remaining three quarters. That leaves the only 1/8th (for those of you who failed algebra) of our class, most of whom, I know and [...]
National Honor Society Speech: Scholarship
Good evening students, parents, teachers and guests, I will be occupying the next 3-6 minutes of your life by speaking about scholarship. I imagine a scholar to have been well privileged grey haired old man who spent the majority of his time in a dark, secluded, silent, fire-lit dungeon, surrounded by thousands of barely legible [...]