Jeff Avery

A short presentation on the CS program and it’s specializations, followed by a live Q&A

A brief summary of all CS courses offered by the Cheriton School of Computer Science.

My virtual bookshelf. Somewhat accurate.

I mostly use this site to share off-the-record projects and half-baked ideas. If you are looking for my research, you should look at my Google Scholar profile. If you are looking for course information, I suggest looking at the respective home-page from the list of courses on my homepage.

Building user-facing applications can be challenging. Widget or GUI toolkits provide essential abstractions for OS-level capabilities like graphics, sound, reusable widgets and event handling. There are a large number of these toolkits available. Let’s review some of the differences in their design.

Over the past few years, I’ve moved through a number of solutions while figuring out how to publish courses notes online. Currently, I’m publishing-with-hugo, which is an exceptionally great tool for small sites.

What do I believe as an application developer? What are my biases?

I joked with a group of friends the other day that I would `rather retire than teach web development’. It was an off-the-cuff comment, but there’s a grain of truth to it. Does this mean that I hate web technologies?

Picking a programming language for a new software project can be a daunting task: there’s just so many choices! So, why Kotlin? Why not Rust, Typescript, Go? I think this choice always comes down to the suitability of the programming language and language ecosystem to the types of software that you are writing.

In a previous post, I talked about the value in using Markdown to generate course notes. I’ve continued to refine my use of Markdown, and I’m convinced that it’s still the fastest way to generate semi-structured content for my courses¹

I’ve also recently started using Hugo to generate websites. Hugo is a static site generator that takes Markdown source files and related assets, and generates a static website from your content. It supports many, many different themes, so you can pick something that works for particular style of content.