Timeline for Can a professor teach mathematics and computer science?
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| Nov 3, 2023 at 20:15 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | In my first comment, the link for "this is the person" is no longer valid. However, it is available at this internet archive web page. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | Because of the job conditions then (very bad in math, very good in computer science), I suggested that we might have better luck if we removed the computer science degree requirement and also advertise where graduate math students looked for jobs, but still stress that the position was primarily to teach computer science. And, in fact, the person we hired (who is still there, in Fall 2020) was just such a person – someone finishing up a Masters in math who had an excellent teaching record and sufficient computer science background (had taught some CS courses at a community college, I believe). | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | (I’m including this note mainly for my own possible later reference, as I recently came across a March 1998 Usenet post related to what follows.) From roughly Dec. 1997 to May 1998, I was involved in a search for a computer science teacher for this school (academically, in the top dozen or so public high schools in the U.S.), and by late February 1998 no one remotely qualified had applied (mainly due to lack of evidence of superior teaching experience and excellence). (continued) | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 20:50 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | I'm hesitant to give specifics in my answer, since there they would be google'able and I haven't contacted any of those involved about my mentioning these things, but if anyone is really interested, this is the person in question and this is the "other place". | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 11:35 | history | edited | Dave L Renfro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
less colloquial usage (for ESL readers)
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 10:46 | history | answered | Dave L Renfro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |