The MSU Engineering Jupyterhub server provides 2GB of disk storage space for each student. It can be helpful to learn some disk management so you can use this space effectively.

For example, pip install uses a temporary folder when downloading packages. Periodically, deleting this folder can significantly free up space …

A few weeks ago I was asked by Terence O'Neill to give a talk to the VR/AR seminar group being held at the library. He wanted me to talk about our "Mobile beast" and show how we are using VR equipment in CMSE.

The VR equipment had a bug …

Example Makefile

A former student recently emailed me asking for a good reference about makefiles. To be honest, I teach a lot about makefiles but I am not sure I have a go-to source. I could have googled something but instead I just tapped out this quick description. I thought …

This quick tutorial shows provides basic instructions for generating the above graph using Graphviz.

If you already have Anaconda installed on your system, you can quickly install graphviz using the following command:

conda install graphviz

Once graphviz is installed you need to create a text file with the connections. This …

I have an example program that came with BCCD called Pandemic which I wanted to run on our local HPCC. Unfortunately Pandemic requires X11 to run and I would get a segmentation fault every time I ran it in the batch system.

This blog post shows how I used the …

Faculty at MSU conducted a workshop to brainstorm and discuss ways we can try and foresee how education will be changed by technology in an effort to get ahead of the changes and make sure our teaching goals and values stay intact.

My presentation was about the difficulty in predicting …

Today is the last day of the 2018 ACI-REF Virtual residency workshop here in Norman Ok. It was a great week with a lot of great people. I highly recommend the workshop for anyone in the area of Advanced Computing Instruction especially those do some Research and Education Facilitation in …

I had fun leading a discussion on Deciding Which Technologies to Adopt, and When at the 2018 ACI-REF Virtual residency event in Norman Oklahoma. Since many of the participants were virtual I experimented with doing a Brainstorming exercise over zoom. We had local volunteers on typing in comments from our …

Thank you Aaron Bergstrom (U North Dakota) for facilitating the panel discussion on Teams of CI Professionals: Recruitment & Retention, Management, Team-building, and Motivation at the 2018 ACI-REF Virtual residency. My fellow panel members included:

• Jerry Perez, U Texas Dallas
• Derek Leydig, Pennsylvania State U
• Claire Mizumoto, U California San Diego …

I just got done trying out our latest CyberAmbassador Curriculum developed specifically for the 2018 ACI-REF Virtual residency.

We had some growing pains related to getting zoom breakout rooms working with a large group of people calling in. Some didn't have working mics, others work in a group room and …