bh@cs.berkeley.eduI'm a "Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment Emeritus," which means that they paid me to teach full-time (not to do research), but was essentially tenured, even though I'm not supposed to call it that. (But since nobody outside the University of California has any idea what that title means, I'm allowed to call myself a "Teaching Professor Emeritus" instead. Research faculty at some other UC campuses don't allow this for their teaching faculty, because they're afraid people might think we're like them and they'll get cooties.) I am retired as of July 1, 2013. But I'm continuing to work on various education-related projects at the University.
I taught many of the lower division (freshman and sophomore) computer science courses at Berkeley, as well as one called Social Implications of Computing and occasionally others.I'm (still) faculty advisor of the Computer Science Undergraduate Association and of the Open Computing Facility.
I'm also interested in the use of computers in pre-college education; I used to be a high school teacher, and was involved in the development of the Logo programming language. More recently I've been helping develop the Snap! language (see below).
Brian's Last Lecture (Quicktime) (download it to watch; don't try to stream it in the browser)
This project really excites me — sneaking the ideas of Scheme
into the visual metaphor of Scratch!
( at
the right is λ.)
Recently we also snuck in the vector and matrix functions of APL. :)
News! UCBLogo development has been taken over by wonderful chief volunteer Josh Cogliati and bunches of other volunteers: dmalec, Barak A. Pearlmutter, janekr, hosiet, reinerh, atehwa, kilobyte, pahihu
The newest source tree is here:
https://github.com/jrincayc/ucblogo-code.
You can file bug reports in its issue tracker at Github.
The current version is 6.2.4, posted 2 Jul 2024.
Click here to retrieve the complete distribution archive for Unix/Linux, MacOS X, or Windows, complete with C source code.
Here are links to version 5.3 for frozen platforms DOS or Mac pre-OS X. A version for the One Laptop Per Child XO is here.
(If you think Logo is just a graphics language for little kids, check out a sample program that should impress you.)
Also consider David Costanzo's FMSLogo, an updated version of George Mills' MSWLogo, a multimedia-enhanced version for MS Windows based on Berkeley Logo. Or Andreas Micheler's aUCBLogo, a rewrite and enhancement of UCBLogo.
Here are links to other versions of Logo.
If you got here by Googling "logo" and are looking for someone to design a logotype (an identifying symbol) for your organization, you're in the wrong place. This is the Logo computer programming language for learners!
Now FREE for personal use: The second edition of
Computer Science Logo Style, a three-volume series intended
mainly for teenagers and their teachers, or for adults who aren't professional
programmers. You can look at the tables of contents and complete
downloadable PDFs and browsable HTML versions of
MIT Press web pages for Computer Science Logo Style
v1
v2
v3
Here are the
program files for use with the book (or by
HTTP).
MIT
Press web page for Simply Scheme
I've written several papers about
computers and education.
I'm a member of
the Exploratorium (member #125!),
the Electronic
Frontier Foundation,
the League for Programming Freedom, and the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Other organizations I support include the
Electronic Privacy Information Center,
Check out the Marxism
page and the Marxists Internet
Archive.
Check out the world's best turkey
stuffing recipe.
Note: These books are still in copyright, and in print. They are
posted here for your personal use, not for resale or redistribution.
Thanks!
The second edition was published in 1999.
You can look at complete
downloadable PDFs and browsable HTML versions of
the chapters.
Note: This book is still in copyright, and in print. It is
posted here for your personal use, not for resale or redistribution.
Thanks!
cover art
(削除) the Berkeley Food and Housing Project (削除ここまで)
Insight Housing (when I first
started supporting them, they were the Berkeley Emergency Food Project;
I supported them in lieu of handing money (coins, back then) to people on
the street. Then they became Food and Housing, and over time they've put
much more attention into the latter. So now I give half the money to them and
half to the Alameda County
Community Food Bank),
the Ethical Culture Fieldston School,
and Camp Winnarainbow.
(The latter group are not membership organizations, hence the two categories.)
So, what do you do for fun, Brian?
But lately I've really gotten hooked:
And of course I read the classics:
bh@cs.berkeley.edu
