I was getting lunch with a friend - a former student, the other day. Great little tapas place in SOHO. He's a sharp guy. In the tech industry. Back when Google and company were all starting with those "technical interviews," now known as leetcode problems and every other Tom, Dick, and Harry company was playing copycat, he took a different approach. His theory was that his company couldn't compete with, say Google, in terms of cachet, salary, or benefits for an entry level hire so if you were good enough to pass the Google screen and his screen, you'd almost certainly pick Google.

My friend Neil posted this article earlier today. Got me thinking. Enough so to post again after a couple of months. The article is about Harvard's popular CS50 course. David J. Malan took over and redesigned the course in 2007 and it's been his ever since. This year, Malan is on sabbatical and the course is being taught by Henry H. Leitner who was one of the instructors prior to Malan's reworking of the course.

Another big gap in posting. Last time well over a month ago. I do in fact have a couple of things to blog about, not the least of which is the upcoming CSTA conference but I'll hold off on that since Alfred Thompson already posted his preview [[ https://blog.acthompson.net/2026/06/previewing-csta-2026.html ][(link]]) and Doug Peterson also posted on CS Ed conferences in response (link). Instead, let's talk about the latest CS Ed podcast.