Thomas Hastings

Three years ago, my advisor, Prof. Kristen Walcott, introduced me to an excellent set of software engineering curriculum. The curriculum was developed at UC Berkley by Prof. Armando Fox and Prof. David Patterson in partnership with EdX.

More than 20,000 students earned certificates from these online courses since 2012, and more than 100,000 have completed parts of the course.

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Fox and review/update the JavaScript chapter for the 2nd edition. Today, I received the new beta edition of the book in the mail. Thankful for the opportunity.

Students deserve the best education regardless of socioeconomic factors and the pandemic has been widening the equity gaps.

Last semester I found many of my CS students relied heavily on school computers to do their assignments.

I've spent the last two weeks working nights and weekends to build a platform which can run as a #SaaS or on-prem.

Students will be able to dev using a web browser on a platform that scales using #Kubernetes.

Teachers can create #dev #environments for their students with a few clicks and schools can use their existing infrastructure (yes, even behind a firewall as long as the nodes can reach the internet) with the self hosted application.