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.

I will return to Clark College to lead and teach the Web Development program this fall. It will mark the start of my 11th year teaching full-time and my 3rd year on Tenure-Track. New this term is that students enrolled in my Python courses will have the opportunity to earn a certificate from Harvard University simultaneously (CS50P). How cool is that? Come to Clark College and earn a certificate from Harvard! I will share more information on what’s in store for me shortly.

Common Canvas mistakes that teachers should avoid

“How to Canvas” – The YouTube Channel for Teachers Using the Canvas LMS

The How to Canvas channel is dedicated to helping teachers enhance their abilities as they navigate the Canvas LMS. Discover tips and tricks of the platform as we create and curate content, enable settings, embed technology, and design teaching and learning communities for our students. Have fun exploring Canvas with me and make sure to subscribe so you can become a Canvas expert.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowToCanvas/about

There’s also an accompanying website at https://www.howtocanvas.com/

How to make screen recordings of code like CS50 does

Ever wonder what software the folx at Harvard/edX are using to make those cool demo videos showing how a problem should work?

They are using https://asciinema.org/

There are also other tools that you can use. More on this soon.

Video: My CS50P Final Project Presentation

This video demonstrates the output created by a Python program I developed for the Harvard CS50P course that I recently completed. It takes closed caption files and can generate HTML, Markdown or Text. You can also use this application to create clickable transcripts which can be embedded in WordPress or a learning management system such as Canvas.

I’ve Officially Completed CS50P at Harvard University

I’m happy to announce that I’ve completed CS50 at Harvard University CS50P – Introduction to Programming with Python course. Even though I know the Python language, I learned a lot of new things. The Problem Sets were challenging; writing your own unit tests for some was an excellent course feature.

Onto my next CS50 course.

CS50P: More on Unit Testing

For those of you taking the edX CS50P – Introduction to Programming with Python course, I found this video helpful if you are new to unit testing.

Auto-Grading Assignments with GitHub Classroom

In this video, I demonstrate how you can use Python unit tests to auto-grade students’ assignments through GitHub Classroom.