Saw this article in the New York Times yesterday. It's been making its rounds. There was some discussion in some of the CS Ed related online groups, my friend Alfred Thompson posted his take here, and when my daughter, a professional SWE at Meta for close to a decade came over for dinner yesterday, she brought it up. I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd add my two cents.

Warning: This post is political and involves my views on antisemitism and the Gaza situation. So, in my travels over the past year or so, I've been trying to hit independent book stores or otherwise cool local places. I mean Devorah always wants to go to the local yarn store to get something either spun or dyed in the area but I don't have a similar hobby. I figured that I could visit a local book store.

Although retired, I'm trying to keep some skin in the game. An opportunity to do that came up back in mid march when my friend Aankit Patel reached out to me. I've known Aankit since he ran CSforAll for the NYC Department of Education but now he's the University Dean for Tech and Computer and Info Sciences at CUNY. Aankit told me he had some extra funds to run an event and asked if I wanted to organize and run a hackathon for CUNY students.