It has been over twelve years since I last wrote to my blog, ending with a letter to my recently deceased brother. While my writing frequency had already dwindled during graduate school as depicted in Figure 1, Daniel’s death ended my blog writing. I had little desire to write …

Dear Daniel,

I have put off writing this letter as long as I could. Its anticipation has consistently brought me to tears, and will continue to do so throughout the writing process. I welcome the tears but wish there were no reason for them.

Today would have been your 26th …

This is my first pelican post using markdown. I have yet to import all my old blog entries as I first need to make sure I can make it work from scratch.

Below is the skeleton python program that I always start out with:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os …

Bryce Boe
Ph.D. Proposal
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
10:30 AM in 1132 HFH

Committee: Diana Franklin (chair), Kevin Almeroth, Danielle Harlow (Education Department), Timothy Sherwood

Title: Submission and Feedback Tools to Support Growth in Computer Science Education

Abstract:

The increase in popularity of teaching using visual programming languages …

Many people in the US show appreciation for their mother on the second Sunday of May. While Mother’s Day may be more commercial, and directed differently than originally intended [ref], I will use the day to thank two women, both mothers, who have made and continue to make a …

Early yesterday morning many people gained an extra hour by repeating the second hour of the day. Those people in time zones that were previously on daylight saving time switched back to standard time and thus may have observed their digital devices record the following sequence of times:

2012-11-04 01 …

Two weeks ago I attended SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC. The plane on my return flight had Internet access through Gogo’s Inflight Internet. While I think it’s incredibly awesome that Internet access is readily available to those who travel by plane, I personally feel it is not worth …

Major Area Exam
Bryce Boe

March 12, 2012
2:00 PM
HFH 1132

Committee:
Diana Franklin (chair), Tim Sherwood, Kevin Almeroth

Title: Automated Feedback and Assessment of Student Submitted Code

Abstract:
Increases in class sizes pose a problem for computer science instructors. With a larger number of students to educate …

A few days ago I wrote about a few differences between using C and python to handle a process-based job management system. My discussion covered performance, development time, dependencies, and portability. I ended with the conclusion that despite C being vastly superior in performance, the relative difference in performance between …

I had an interesting discussion with my buddy Ali after he read my previous post, Python Multiprocessing Pool and KeyboardInterrupt Revisited. The discussion was around the question, “what are the benefits of using the python multiprocessing.Pool class over writing a simple process-based job management system in C?”

We started …