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Compressional Warming

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My TED-Ed Video Lesson: > 3.5 Million Views

#11 trending video on YouTube shortly after release
Featured by BBC News Brasil (in Portuguese and Spanish)
Featured by Quartz, Boing Boing, Digital Trends, LifeHacker, IMDB, and Reddit
Teaches computer science topic: sorting algorithms

University of Texas Homepage Highlights My Teaching

I was the "homepage hero" of the Computer Science Department
UT-Austin Faculty Innovation Center features my teaching

University of Texas Features My Comics on Leading Women in Mathematics

One Step Deeper #2: Katherine Johnson
One Step Deeper #1: Ada Lovelace

Chief Meteorologist Shares My Weather Comics

Ridges & Troughs with Bad Puns [More Info]
Compressional Warming [More Info]
Why Is It Hot Before a Cold Front? [More Info]
What Meteorologists Do [More Info]
How Clouds Make Snow [More Info]

Learn to Physically Simulate a Fluid

From first principles and C++, using only free, widely available software, create and visualize a physics-based simulation of a fluid

Learn to Code by Character Animation

I modified a Blender plug-in to enable writing Python code that directs 3D animated characters to dance, throw a basketball, and climb.

ACM Inroads Back Page Features My Comic

Learn how computers store letters in their memory
Learn about abstraction

Math Comics

What Is A Cauchy Sequence?

Weather Comic: How High and Low Pressure Centers Form

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Comics on Computer Programming Concepts

Programs are recipes telling computers how to "cook" data.
Programs have ingredients & instructions.
Ingredients in a program are like boxes.
Each box has a unique name.
Each box has a data type.
Boolean data type
Character data type
Integer data type
Float data type
Box = Variable
Value of a Variable
Primitive data types
Data structures
Arrays
Array of integers
Array of characters
Strings
Declaring a variable
Assigning a value to a variable
Assigning a new value to a variable
Ingredients of a program are variables. What are instructions?
An assignment is one kind of instruction.
A print statement is another kind of instruction.
A simple program: Just a print statement
Another simple program: An assignment and a print statement

Comics on How Computers Store Data

Computers Can Cook Data, but We Have to Write the Recipes
Computers Remember and Do Things Kind of Like Us
Computers Use Secret Codes Called Data Types to Store Data Using 0s and 1s
Boolean -- Yes and No
Boolean -- Housing the Truth
Houses of Character
Computers Use Blocks of Memory to Represent Larger Pieces of Data
Liar Paradox or a Joke for Computers

Comics on How Computers Run Programs

The Life of a Computer Program, Part 1: Fetching the Recipe
The Life of a Computer Program, Part 2: Virtual Memory
The Life of a Computer Program, Part 3: Program Segments
The Life of a Computer Program, Part 4: How Computers Store Programs
The Life of a Computer Program, Part 5: How a Computer Adds Two Numbers
The Life of a Computer Program, Part 6: How a Computer Runs a Program
How an Array of Integers Gets Stored in Memory
Computers Don't Know Anything, but They Compute Quickly

Comics on How to Computers Search Data

Linear Search, Part 1: A Simple Algorithm
Linear Search, Part 2: Program Walk-through and For Loop
Linear Search, Part 3: How the Program Works
Linear Search, Part 4: How to Understand a Program
Binary Search, Part 1: The Algorithm
Binary Search, Part 2: A Play & Poem
Binary Search, Part 3: How to Implement It
Binary Search, Part 4: How It Runs

Comics on How Computers Sort Numbers

Algorithms, Page 1
Algorithms, Page 2
Insertion Sort, Page 1
Insertion Sort, Page 2
Insertion Sort, Page 3
How to implement Insertion Sort
Quicksort, Page 1
Quicksort, Page 2
Quicksort, Page 3
Quicksort, Page 4
Quicksort, Page 5
How to implement Quicksort

Data Science / Machine Learning Comics

Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 1
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 2
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 3
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 4
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 5
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 6
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 7
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 8
Linear Regression & Gradient Descent, Page 9

Physics Comics

A Rock Goes 0 to 60 in 3 Seconds

Older Comics

A Comic for All of Us, Especially Girls and Women, to Learn and Enjoy Computer Science

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