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Scrum for COMP 402?

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Mathias

I went to a talk on Scrum yesterday, and it was very interesting. Scrum is an agile software engineering methodology, similar to Extreme Programming. It features a list of externally visible features that need to be implemented, the product backlog. … Continue reading →

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COMP 410 Final Presentation

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Mathias

The guys of COMP 410 had their final presentation last Wednesday. They got some pretty tough questions, and the state of the final product was not as polished as I would have liked it to be, but I think they … Continue reading →

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Paging Stuff Back Into My Brain

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Mathias

I gave the second lecture as Corky’s substitute in COMP 311 today. We talked about object-oriented languages in general, and Java in particular. I didn’t talk about the historical perspective on OO (slide 5), and I only mentioned multiple inheritance … Continue reading →

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A Nice Monday

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Mathias

I had a very nice Monday today. Corky asked me to take over his lecture in COMP 311 today while he is at SPLASH/OOPSLA. I handed out the exam and reviewed the sample midterm. I’m quite happy about how the … Continue reading →

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COMP 410 Customer Meeting

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Mathias

I had my first meeting as “customer” with this semester’s COMP 410 class today. It was a lot of fun for me. From the class website: COMP 410 is a unique experience in learning fundamental principles of software engineering. As … Continue reading →

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COMP 202 Links for Previous Semesters

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Mathias

Dung Nguyen noticed that the links for previous semesters that I have on my Fall 2008 COMP 202 page all lead back to my own page. I looked at the HTML source, and I do redirect to Owlnet, where the … Continue reading →

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Back and Wanting More

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Mathias

This is my second day back from my talks at SIGCSE and Purdue, and I’m already wanting more. We’re finalizing our Mint paper for PLDI, and I’m thinking about a nifty assignment for the SPLASH/OOPSLA Educators’ Symposium. I couldn’t really … Continue reading →

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In the Thresher!

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Mathias

In light of the upcoming registration period for the Spring 2010 semester, the Rice Thresher (our university newspaper) has published last spring’s course evaluations. It’s kind of cool to be listed in there, even though I probably won’t offer COMP … Continue reading →

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Long Overdue Update

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Mathias

It is the end of July already. The last time I … Continue reading →

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I love yUML

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Mathias

I haven’t blogged in a long time again, and I d… Continue reading →

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Two-Thousand Nine

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Mathias

Okay, I have neglected my blog for about two mo… Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Mathias

This semester is now over, I have submitted the… Continue reading →

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ANTLRWorks and OpenJDK Compiler Grammar

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Mathias

Now that my qualifying exam is behind me, I’ve … Continue reading →

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SourceForge Subversion Problems

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Mathias

Corky and I are having problems on the CSnet ma… Continue reading →

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Academia.edu and Publications Category

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Mathias

A few days ago, I got an email from Academia.ed… Continue reading →

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Bad Shortcuts

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Mathias

Sometimes, trying to take a shortcut can make y… Continue reading →

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Symphony and Exams

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Mathias

Yesterday, I finally went to the first symphony… Continue reading →

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Two Weeks, Gone With The Wind

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Mathias

It’s hard to believe that two weeks have truly … Continue reading →

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Lecture 4 Review

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Mathias

Today we started our discussion of Java generic… Continue reading →

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Lecture 3 Review

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Mathias

Today, we talked about higher-order functions, … Continue reading →

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