Academic Interests

• Distributed compilation
• Tools to analyze software.
• Teaching techniques -- making computer science fun
• Computer Programming as an Art
• Computing in Christian missions, non-profits, and humanitarian organizations
• Python programming
• Integration of computer science and other sciences

Projects I would like students to work with me on:

• Setting up a python scripting library for the Virtual Reality system at Calvin.
• Building and "publishing" an open-source, general-purpose graphing application that can take input from files, pipes, or stdin (ala HP OpenView's xnmgraph).
• Setting up the python library pympi on the Beowulf cluster and working with Biochem professors to allow them to run their algorithms faster on the cluster.
• Building a website with easy matplotlib examples -- not the complicated ones they show in their website. Grrrr...
• Building a tool to analyze and visualize the dependencies between .c and .h files in large-scale software projects.
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