"*** I am NOT an "Instant Book" tutor. I require at least 24 hours of advance notice to schedule a session. Expect to explain your tutoring request in detail. *** My focus as a tutor is quality teaching. I reserve the right to decline tutoring sessions for which students are not prepared to make an effort to learn. In addition, since I emphasize quality in all of my tutoring sessions, I will not schedule more than three hours of sessions, across all students, per day.

I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science and I have been programming for more than 40 years in a variety of computer languages, from Common Lisp and Scheme, to ML and Prolog, to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I have taught introductory college-level computer science courses which have included programming in C/C++, Java, and App Inventor as well as general computer science fundamentals. I have tutored undergraduate and graduate computer science students through all levels of coursework.

I can help prepare high school students for the AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles exams. For traditional AP exam schedules, the best time to start tutoring sessions is in February so that topics already covered in class can be reviewed, upcoming topics can be prepared for, and studying and testing strategies can be planned with enough time to execute them properly.

I believe the best way to learn programming concepts is by focusing on the fundamentals and writing computer programs to solve problems. I can help guide students through the process of learning how to program so that students can learn any programming language that they want or need to in the future." less...