Python at Rikers

Posted on Sun 11 December 2016 in Criminal Justice • Tagged with Prison Education, persistence, resilience

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming. ~ Victor Frankl paraphrasing Johann Wolfangang von Goethe

Teaching Python to Rikers Detainees

On Saturday, December 10th, I had the privilege of joining students from the Columbia …


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Hard Problems

Posted on Mon 26 October 2015 in Tutorials • Tagged with Grad School, persistence, resilience

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Comparison is the theif of Joy. ~ Sofia Kovalevskaya

Renowned Researcher and GC CompSci EO Haralick vists undergrads

CUNY Graduate Center Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor Robert Haralick came to visit the Computer Science club at John Jay last Thursday. His nominal topic was graduate school applications. More than 40 students …


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