Owen Astrachan 2008 official pic, 2003 official pic, a few years ago, many years ago, hard at work, biker-like dude, and self portrait

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
D241 LSRC, Research Drive, Box 90129
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-6522, fax: (919) 660-6519
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Material accessible from this web page that was created by Owen Astrachan is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

We're revising our CS1/compsci 101 course and I'm (intermittently) blogging about the process.

I'm a CDEF: CISE Distinguished Education Fellow

code as a metaphor info from CS&IT and HarambeeNet

Slides from Recent Talks

bubblesort (see Barack Obama discuss Bubblesort)

Grace Hopper on Letterman!

Pickastudent executable jar and if that doesn't work try this: pick a random student code

Student Data Structure Songs (and videos)

Office Hours, Spring 2013 Wednesday 3:30-4:30, Thur 2:00-3:00, whenever my door is open or by appointment.

I want to take Compsci 92 in Spring 2013

Teaching and Courses	Family	Professional
Spring 13 Compsci 342s, Technical and Social Foundations of the Internet Compsci 92, CS Principles/Technical and Social Foundations of the Internet Past courses from past semesters anonymous course feedback for CPS courses. UTA sign up for Spring '12	Snowman 2007 Our Family, April 2006 Ethan Adam Children say no to war (movie) Children as Robots Revolt (youtube home movie) Uncle Josh and kids playdrums (movie) me pretending to be Ethan Laura Heyneman Thanksgiving Family Football Dogs and Cats personal odyssey/biography wiki owen Music and a Google Experiment	vita and official bio csprinciples code as a metaphor from bioinformatics to networks and regex tool Java in AP Ambient/Eclipse Tapestry/C++ book Talks using patterns Papers Panels/Presentations older stuff FYI 2000 A Workshop on First Year Instruction in Computer Science. July 15/16, 2000. Apprentice learning METEOR Research in Automated Theorem Proving Internet Programming Contest (old) C++ and AP

I re-organized this page in Feb, 2004, here's the old page

I enjoy being called an idiot by my friends, acquaintances, and colleagues.

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