"I tutor students who are self-motivated to learn. Beyond my introductory presentation about the ADCs of programming, I do not lecture in my role as a tutor. When students are not in a formal education setting, I guide students to explore subjects on their own. For all students, I encourage self-reflection on their understanding of what they are studying and provide support for them to overcome any obstacles they encounter.

I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science and I have been programming for more than 40 years in a variety of computer languages, from Common Lisp and Scheme, to ML and Prolog, to Ruby and Python. I have taught introductory college-level computer science courses which have included programming in C/C++, Java, and App Inventor as well as general computer science fundamentals. I have tutored undergraduate and graduate computer science students through all levels of coursework.

I can help prepare high school students for the AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles exams. For traditional AP exam schedules, the best time to start tutoring sessions is in February so that topics already covered in class can be reviewed, upcoming topics can be prepared for, and studying and testing strategies can be planned with enough time to execute them properly.

For students at all levels, I believe the best way to learn programming concepts is by focusing on the fundamentals and writing computer programs to solve problems. I can help guide students through the process of learning how to program so that students can learn any programming language that they want or need to in the future." less...