All posts by Fernando Carrillo Castro

Huge comic book fan, geek by choice
CS, University

How did I end up teaching Compilers?

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When the old curriculum generations ended, I was forced to move to the new curriculum , were my old class named workshop in systems programming, got called Translators I and compilers was named Translators II.

So when I was moved over the logical choice was to continue on Translators I,I wanted to go to distributed operative systems but a teacher of translators II resigned and my head of department needed somebody to teach that class, so he offered that class and I said yes…then he requested the class to be taught on english too.

I gave the class based on Stanford compilers class, that lasted for 2 semesters =).

Motivational, Personal

Best compliments I ever received

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After my gramps died, my grandma told me that in all the family I was the one most similar to him, the one who worked harder…I don’t think she said smarter but she said smart as him; and well thats a lot.

After LACS died, in his religious goodbye, my “mother from CUCEI” told me that I was the one most similar to him, smart and saw CS in a similar way…but I didn’t have the same areas of opportunity that he did have.

 

Those 2 are probably the best compliments I will ever receive…until somebody compare with my mom.

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms IT?

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When I applied to the MBA program I had an interview with SD, then when I graduated from the MBA, SD was selected to be one of evaluators.

We get to know each other after that, talking about work, he was the coordinator of the Ms IT program and wanted somebody to give a talk to the students about BI, I agreed to it, since is something I was working on Oracle. The conference was a success and I was invited to join the program teaching the BI class.

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms marketing direction?

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This one is a long chain of events.

The previous professor resigned of this class too close to the first class.

The coordinator asked the head of the IT department, then he asked his right hand, who asked a friend, who asked my then ex-girlfriend(now wife), who knew the topics needed for the class(CRM, BI and DS) were things I worked @ Oracle.

Then I communicated all the way to the coordinator, We talked and well I have been teaching there from 2016 to date =)

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms in data science?

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I heard about this master coming up on mid 18 from couple of different sources, so of course I wanted to join in. I started checking who was going to be the coordinator but didn’t had luck for a while.

I Finally got lucky mid 19, via couple of students, one of them got me the email and I sent an email with my CV, after couple of weeks I got the class of programming I, and after the first semester I was asked to teach programming II.

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How did I end up teaching workshop in systems programming?

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This one is pretty weird.

When the old curriculum was still in place, my head of department called me and told me that this class, as I knew, was one of the most difficult, she believed the cause being teacher didn’t want to update the class syllabus( and with the new curriculum coming up there wasn’t a point of doing it then) and she wanted somebody young teaching the old things, taking a new approach to this particular class, thinking that might change the output.

I accepted the challenge and started teaching what I think for the students will be the 2nd most difficult class in their career.

I changed things from start, I was teaching taking an approach kind of like a product owner and PM. I will them the dates, let them decide when I will give them a little extra on old things they might forgotten or new things that could help them out and proceed to explain every single practice and theory. I started letting them know that an assembly was the final product and what is an assembly.

My approach worked, most of my students passed in my firsts semester teaching the class, but things went to the other side when that old curriculum started fading away.