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Matt Leming


Matt Leming is a senior computer science major from New Orleans.
Opinion

Column: Hack, hack, (sleep?) hack

A hackathon is a competition for computer programmers and designers where you stuff 200 to 1,500 people into a room for 24 or 48 hours, shove some energy drinks in there and see what happens.

Matt Leming is a senior computer science major from New Orleans.
Opinion

Column: Flipped classes need scrutiny

One of the hardest undergraduate courses in the computer science department is Computer Science 530: Operating Systems. It’s a flipped class. We worked in groups of four on absurdly difficult worksheets, watching video lectures and doing projects outside class. Besides the professor’s philosophical opposition to posting answers to these worksheets (ever), it was a well-executed course and likely the best way to learn the low-level workings of complex machinery.

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