User:Charles.dierbach

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Charles (Chuck) Dierbach is an Associate Professor of computer science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University outside of Baltimore Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Delaware.

Dr. Dierbach has been teaching at the university level for over thirty years. He regularly teaches introductory computer science courses, as well as an undergraduate and graduate course in object-oriented design. He has also co-developed and taught a computational thinking course for non-majors. He is the author of an introductory computer science textbook using Python.

The research interests of Dr. Dierbach include analogical reasoning and computer science education.

POSSE Activities

Part A

Introduction to IRC

How so the people interact?

By just jumping in.

What is the pattern of communication?

Generally back-and-forth between two or three individuals at a time.

Are there any terms that have special meaning?

Yes - vm, git, opencv

What advantages might IRC have over other real-time communication methods? Are there potential disadvantages?

Main advantaged of IRC is that a log of the conversation can be kept. Advantages of real-time methods would mainly be more time efficient

Other observations?

How much help participants are to each other in real time

Join and Observe Channel Discussion

(unfinished)