Author: Bruce Elgort

You’ll find this technology professor – an award-winning instructor at Clark College – working hard to inspire and challenge his students with meaningful web development and programming experiences. With a skinny vanilla latte (no foam) in hand, Bruce loves to tinker and test the boundaries of existing and emerging technologies, to then guide hungry minds through memorable, educational journeys to showcase with passion the ever-evolving innovations of society. An industry leader, Bruce is known for co-developing Elguji’s IdeaJam software, and is recognized by IBM as an ‘IBM Champion’ for being an innovative thought leader in cloud technologies.

Building Thinking Classrooms

I’m reading “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” and finding it transformational and eye-opening. I also stumbled upon a secondary school teacher’s YouTube series. She does a fantastic job of breaking each book chapter into her experiences and implementing it in her science classes.

AI in Higher Education Slide Deck

On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, I gave a presentation entitled “AI in Higher Education” to the Clark College Board of Trustees. The presentation also included a demonstration of the CS50 at Harvard University Duck Debugger AI assistant. If you have any questions about the slides or using AI in higher education, it is best to contact me.

Click to access ai_bot_2023.pdf

CS50W Completed!

Today, I officially completed CS50w – Web Programming with Python and JavaScript. This course is offered by CS50 at Harvard University. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about this course, I suggest you visit the CS50W on edX.

Here’s a post with all of the videos I made for each of the 6 projects in the course.

Here’s the certificate I received:

CS50W Final Project: WAVE Catcher

Here’s a 5-minute video that demonstrates my final project for CS50W.

CS50W Project 4: Network

Here’s a 4-minute video demonstrating my Network project for CS50W.

Teaching CS50x and CS50P in Higher Education

Here’s the video recording and resources of my presentation entitled “Teaching CS50x and CS50P in Higher Education,” which I gave at the CS50 Educators Workshop held at Harvard University from June 29 – July 1, 2023.

Video

Slides

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5zbcw0jpi22fhff/cs50_educators_workshop.pdf?dl=0

Resources

https://bit.ly/submissiontrackercs50, which is a Google Sheets-based submission tracker
https://github.com/belgort-clark/multi-puller, which is a submission downloader with compare50 support
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BruceElgort.ctec-121, which is a Visual Studio Code Snippet Extension
https://github.com/belgort-clark/vs-code-extension, which is the Visual Studio Code Extension Snippet source on GitHub
https://bit.ly/captions2html, which is a clickable transcript tool
AirGlass tool
Font used (Atkinson Hyperlegible)
Exit Slip Survey

Photos

Photos by Andrew Markham, Max Scherr

Classes that don’t meet

CTEC 121 Online: Intro to Programming and Problem-Solving
CTEC 293 Online: Web Skills Portfolio

Monday

3:30 – 5:50 PM: CTEC 126 JavaScript

Tuesday

10:30 – 12:50 PM: CTEC 227 PHP with SQL 2
2:00 – 3:50 PM: CTEC 270 Web Interface Design 1

Wednesday

3:30 – 5:50 PM: CTEC 126 JavaScript

Thursday

10:30 – 12:50 PM: CTEC 227 PHP with SQL 2
2:00 – 3:50 PM: CTEC 270 Web Interface Design 1

A few minutes with Python and ChatGPT

I spent a few minutes working with Python and ChatGPT this morning. In fact, I asked ChatGPT how to configure Visual Studio Code to use ChatGPT, and within a minute, I was up and running.