To finish up, we'll look at some of the other sessions I attended but first a couple of notes. One thing I again noticed was the lack of pedagogy sessions. Maybe I missed something but other than Nifty Assignments, which isn't really about pedagogy and doesn't interest me much anymore I didn't see anything. This is nothing new but at least a couple of years ago we had "It seemed a like a good idea at the time" coordinated by Jim Huggins and Dan Garcia in all their pink suited glory and Colleen Lewis's "Micopedagogy" session (I hope I'm remembering the name right).

So last week I completed my second and final week back at Stuy teaching CS. We spent Monday finishing up the mode lesson and then spent most of the week on this topic - writing a computer program to automatically decode something "encrypted" with a Caesar Cipher. The post I just linked to was from when I first taught the lesson. I've refined and reworked it considerable since then but the gist is the same.

Once again, there were three sets of Birds of a Feather sessions. Two at the end of the day on Thursday but before the big reception and one partly over lunch on Friday. Last year I enjoyed two but walked out o the third mid session. This year, I enjoyed two but just missed the third because I got caught up talking to an old friend. Both of the sessions I enjoyed suffered from the usual BOF problems - since the sessions were well attended and time was short, it was tough to get deep discussions going and also keep the entire BOF together.