Teaching

Philosophy of Teaching

The medicore teacher tells
    The good teacher explains
        The superior teacher demonstrates
            The great teacher inspires
		
		- William arthur Ward

• Habits of Mind: Lessons for the Long Term , (e.g., curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, thoroughness, and humility), Chronicle of Higher Education, October 8th, 2012.
• Colleges Should Teach Intellectual Virtues , (e.g., love of truth, honesty, courage, fairness, wisdom), Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 12th, 2012.
• The 4-Letter Word That Everybody’s Talking About , (i.e., grit), Chronicle of Higher Education, October 8th, 2012.
• Grades and Tests May Miss Measuring What Matters Most in Learning , Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15th, 2012.

Course Portfolios

• CS 5980 : From GPS and Google Earth to Spatial Computing 2-page summary , Fall 2012 , Fall 2011 ,
• Csci 8715 Spatial Data Management - Fall 2011 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2007 , Spring 2006 , Spring 2004 , Fall 2001
• Csci 8799 (Graph Data Management, Spring 96) syllabus , Links
• Csci 8701 (Overview of Database Research ) - Spring 2006 , Fall 2000
• Csci 4707 : Practice of of Database Management Systems - Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2005 , Fall 2002
  - syllabus, exams., notes
• Csci / SE 5707 : Practice of of Database Management Systems : Fall 2011 , Fall 2004
• Csci 5708 (DataBase II: Performance Tuning) - Spring 2011 , Spring 2010 , and Spring 2004
• Csci 5705 (Object Relational Databases, Winter 99) - Syllabus
• Csci 4061 (Operating Systems Programming, Fall 1999)
  - syllabus, exams., notes (html)
• Csci 5180 (Software Engineering I, Summer 98)
  - syllabus, exams., notes (html)
• Csci 1902: Algorithms and Data Structures I: Spring 2012 (with Java) , Winter 1996 (with C++ as Csci 3321
• Csci 3316 (Scheme Programming I, Winter 97)
  - syllabus, exams., notes (html)

Teaching Resources

• Excellence in Teaching, Bush Foundation, Active Learning IS book with excellent web support, Links cde.psue.edu, Links libset.ucsd,
• Web-resources: World Lecture Hall, IT Classes, Ext. Resources, IT Classes, O Reilly Training,
• XML Databases: IBM Tutorial, Wrox Book chapter, alon levy, overview, Products, XML-QL, Penn State - DTD tutorial, papers, Widom papers,
• Data Mining: Tutorial using Clementine, notes , Clementine, Clementine WP, demos,
• Databases: Sample Exam., Ullman slides, PostgresSQL3, SQL Standards Home, SQL Links,
• ERwin Tutorials: pomona, bryant, CA Erwin page (tips, trick) pomona, Adv. ERwin,
• SQL Standards: SQL 2003, SQL Links, The DA Newsletter,
• SQL Tutorials: SQL for web nerds, SQL Guide, andrew, andrew, 2, 3, Style, Tricks, SQL Tutorial w/ Java/Perl, NIST SQL examples , PL/SQL Manual, Oracle 7 Manual, Oracle8 manuals , Oracle SQL Manuals,
• Oracle ucdavis slide on SQlplus, Oracle architecture etc., tutorials on SQLplus, Developer/2000, revealnet oracle summary, Oracle SQL for web nerds (tuning, dwh, java), cramsession.brainbuzz , Oracle summary, Oracle 7 Manual, PL/SQL Debugger, DBA FAQ, Slides , articles , Links 1* , 2 , 3 , jokes ,
• Oracle Forms: Designer/2000 Developer/2000 tutorials - McFadden Book , Documentation:sss111/111111, FAQ, tutorial, objects, version2,
• Python:
  • Intermediate courses: Exercises from upriss ,
  • Basic Course: Python Training Material from BITS VIB, Scripting Course from Bioinfo , Course from CMBI ,
  • Java: The Java Tutorials,
  • C/C++: Links, Win32 - 1,
  • Software Eng.: 5180f96, Arizona, Comix, Proverbs, Resources, Software Eng., Web Module, Web Book, OOSE,
  • CASE Tools: List, by category, Reviews, Honeywell DOME, Rational SEED Program, CASE Tools, TSER: A free CASE Tool,
  • Object Technology: UK course ,
  • Systems Programming: Ant ( Jakarta, iseran , modern development processes talk, ), Unix Resources, Using Unix, cramsession.brainbuzz , C overview, Gnu C library man pages, Gnu tools man pages, Linux man pages, FreeBSD man pages, 5102w98, Stalling's book + courses, NT courses, Systems Prog courses (see lectures), Unix courses(see code examples), Courses ( Haward, jhu, iit, akron, ) Silberschatz's book, Perl sockets, Java threads, MS Developer's Network, SUN developers Network, Unix links, C links, POSIX threads links, Perl POSIX , POSIX programmer's guide (TOC), AT examples ,
  • Publishers: EngrText.com, PWS, ITP, Course Tech., wiley ,
  • Software, Collection of Tools: MathTools (Matlab, C++, Java, ...), JavaCampus, Microsoft Academic Cooperative
  
  

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