About Me
New Syllabus is the online professional home of John Lewis. I'm a computing educator and textbook author. After receiving my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, I spent 14 years at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. In the summer of 2006 I left Villanova and moved back to Virginia. I now teach as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech and Radford University while working on textbooks and related pedagogical projects. My areas of interest in computing include software engineering and the challenges of teaching introductory programming. I'm a Mac geek, amazed that so much of the world still uses PCs. I live with my wife and four children in the beautiful hills of southwest Virginia.
Contact Info
- Email: john.lewis@acm.org
- Virginia Tech Email: lewis63@vt.edu
- Radford Email: jlewis97@radford.edu
- AIM: docjohnlewis
About the Site Name
One of the best things about a life in academia is that it begins fresh every few months. Each semester there are new courses, new students, and new pedagogical challenges. And when your focus is computing, your topic is a moving target. So while we are guided by certain core principles, we must also continually evolve our knowledge and the strategies for communicating that knowledge to students. I suspect that all computing educators worthy of the name make changes to their courses almost every time they are offered. Thus the name New Syllabus.
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