User:Cmurphy

Chris Murphy

Chris is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

He is the director of the Masters of Computer & Information Technology program, and teaches graduate and undergraduate software engineering courses. He also oversees Penn's participation in the Facebook Open Academy Program, an academic initiative sponsored by Facebook in which students contribute to open-source projects under the advisement of a professional mentor.

Chris earned a PhD from Columbia University in 2010, and his research focuses on software testing and computer science education.

Stage 1 Activities

Part A: Intro to IRC, Part 1

How do people interact? briefly, but politely, and usually offering to help out or at least make helpful suggestions

What is the pattern of communication? generally focused on a particular issue: someone raises it and the others try to help out

Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning? technical terms, of course, but also the commands to MeetBot

Can you make any other observations? amber does not seem to be a big fan of capitalization and punctuation :-p