I took my first coding class in high school. I hated it. ‘Coding just isn’t for me,’ or so I thought. It wasn’t until my Teacher Assistant (TA) at Berkeley refreshed my perspective that I discovered the beauty of computer science, and how empowering coding can be.
I teach in the aspiration of having such an impact on others.
Coding is beautiful. My initial misconceptions of it allow me to accelerate students’ toward that eventual conclusion. I empathize with my students, having myself once resented hard-sounding concepts like ‘abstraction’ and ‘recursion’.
That empathy enables me to cut through the lingo and convey fundamental understanding. I tailor a practical curriculum where I bring my past misunderstandings, teaching, and industry experience to the table.
A practical curriculum also approaches problems in the context of AI rather than considering them in a vacuum. Using AI for coding is the realistic future of the craft. That’s why students will learn both the fundamental concepts and their real-life implementations.
I have always been passionate about education, and specifically computer science education. I have previously been a USACO computer science teacher with Juni Learning (YCW18) for two years, and currently in my free time I teach CS & math to kids in my neighborhood.
I also had a Youtube channel called Mathile, where I focused on making explanatory math / ML videos. One of my videos was a deep dive into The Birthday Problem, a common statistical paradox which investigates the likelihood that at least two people in a room of N people share a birthday.
After graduating from Berkeley, I took my love of education and channeled it into a platform called Leaf (getleaf.app). With Leaf, we took scrollytelling -- the concept of transforming long-form text into an interactive experience -- and applied it to coding tutorials. We enabled computer science educators to author interactive coding tutorials without having to write a single line of code. See an example of the type of blog posts one can make using Leaf.
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