Teaching
I like helping people to learn. That is why I found teaching motivating.
While it is challenging it is also a continuous reward to see
my students develop. I enjoy the social interaction
involved in teaching, bringing immediate feedback and continuous
motivation.
In addition to be a teaching assistant during grad school, I was
lucky to be a sessional lecturer twice at the University of Waterloo,
once teaching second year cs-major hardware and once for a
small class of non-cs major. Both experiences were quite different,
but both were rewarding in their own way.
Lecturer
- CS 251: Computer Organization and Design.
In Fall 2012, I co-taught CS251 with Professor Stephen Mann, we each had one section.
I learned a lot from his experience and provided new ideas about how to
teach the course as I was first exposed in teaching such material. I enjoyed
explaining the complex hardware diagrams to my students.
CS251 F2012 Exams:
Midterm
and
Final
- CS 200:
Concepts for Advanced Computer Usage.
In Spring 2009, I had my first experience teaching a course, as I was
the lecturer for CS200 at the University of Waterloo. In this course we
teach the basic concepts of computer science to students who are not taking a
mathematics major. Using different software every couple of weeks, the students
develop their computer solving skills at the same time they are exposed to
databases, text formatting programs, scripting, web-page design and
image manipulation applications.
That course content has been developed by John Beatty.
You can find the course material I used and modified:
Lecture slides
and Assignments
For this course I had to make up few exams for my students.
Designing a lab exam was quite an adventure. I am writing
a webpage report of
that experience. I liked coming up with a good test, it was not
that easy but the students seemed satisfied.
Student Work Exam
(SVG sample).
TA
I have been a teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo for a range of courses.
There is a list of them with for each links to its calendar description and its
webpage, as well as the term I participated in assisting the students.
Seminar Instructor
The faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo runs
a week-long seminar for high-school female students
to make them discover computer science:
CS girls.
The workshop gathers students from across Canada.
In 2003, I taught the daily Introduction to Programming session.