Computing Educators Oral History Project:

(Speaking of her early career in teaching) "[W]e didn't have the internet, so there was no email. So your days were actually quite relaxed... We had lectures to give, we had tutorials to give, but when we went back to our offices it was quiet and peaceful and we used to go to lunch and we used to go home at 5. It was actually a very quiet life in those days." Link to this audio snippet in new window

"Don't talk down to the students. I think Dijkstra had the same. He said many teachers should be head up for (what was the word he used, anyway) for abusing the minds of the students. Don't give them stuff that they are going to have to relearn later; give it to them correctly the first time. They don't have much time, especially those students who are not going to be majors with you. Don't give them simple, simple, simple. Give them the real stuff as the physics people do, as the chemistry people do. Give them the real stuff. And so when I see very poorly written programs in introductory books on C, with if statements going if if if if, I really feel we're doing the community in. I would rather just take it from a higher level, explain it well and give them something that will last a lot longer."