A Love Letter to Functions

“Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.”  – Chris Pine It wasn’t love at first sight. When I was first introduced to functions, they seemed perfectly fine, but a little bland. Sort of like that person that your grandmother would be happy for you to bring home – steady, predictable

The Problem With Teaching to the Test

“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Whether you’re working with students in a classroom or a machine learning algorithm housed on a computer, teaching to the test can have