Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Hi, my name is Jeff Abramson, I have been teaching CompSci classes at PCC for over 16 years.  I am a part time instructor who works in the industry, so you get that perspective from me - I like to share real life examples, pitfalls, where the learning really is important, etc.  I have a long and wide experience with hardware and software development. One other note: I live in Seattle, so all of our course interaction is virtual, but you will find my response time/frequency to be very good, I get that feedback all the time.  So hope to see you in the class!

This class is 100% Distance Learning. There will be sessions scheduled from time to time with the hope that most students can make it.

The course consists of assignments, labs (problem sets) discussions, a midterm, a final exam. This class has a solid mix of hands on coding combined with academic learning and problem solving. 

You will be coding python in this class. Most computers should work for this, ideally a Windows based system. In addition, you will use the browser to view, upload, download, etc., from the class.  You will interact with me and other students through zoom and/or discord, so best situation here is a computer with a microphone and camera.  Zoom from smartphone may be OK in some cases but much harder when sharing screens, etc.