Karl R. Wurst

Areas

Awards

Computer Science Department
486 Chandler St, Worcester, MA, USA 10602
Office: ST 110C
Phone: +1-508-929-8728
Fax: +1-508-929-8156
Email: karl.wurst@worcester.edu

B.S., Computer Science, Central Connecticut State University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Connecticut
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut

Software Engineering
Open Source Software
Computer Science Education
Robotics

Northeast Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Conference Co-Chair for 2015 CCSCNE Conference
Member of the Regional Board

Worcester State University Center for Teaching and Learning

Member of the Editorial Board for Currents in Teaching and Learning Journal
Co-Facilitator of the 2007 Alden Teaching Fellows

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Member
Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
WSU ACM Student Chapter Faculty Advisor

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines

Member
WSU UPE Chapter Faculty Advisor

KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)

Institute Fellow
Botball Judge for New England Region

2014 George I. Alden Excellence in Teaching Award

Worcester State University's highest teaching honor.

1995 NSF Engineering Education Scholar

Named one of the initial group of thirty-one National Science Foundation Engineering Education Scholars nationally. Participated in a week-long workshop on engineering education and its future supervised by NSF administrators and led by nationally recognized educators.

1994 Taylor L. Booth Teaching Fellow

Awarded by a UConn CSE faculty committee to the applicant with the greatest future teaching potential based on letters of support from teaching supervisors and the student's research advisor.

Spring 2015 Schedule

Fall 2015 Schedule

Office hours are subject to change—classes will be notified of any changes.
Office hours are also available by appointment—please contact me to make arrangements.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:00 AM	CS-348 01 Software Process Management ST 107		CS-348 01 Software Process Management ST 107		Preparation, Grading, Research and Professional Development
08:30 AM		CS-383 01 Cloud, Parallel and Distributed Computing ST 107		CS-383 01 Cloud, Parallel and Distributed Computing ST 107
09:00 AM
09:30 AM	Office Hours ST 110C
10:00 AM	Office Hours ST 110C	CS-401 01 Software Development Process ST 107		CS-401 01 Software Development Process ST 107
10:30 AM	Department Meeting		Office Hours ST 110C
11:00 AM	Department Meeting		Office Hours ST 110C
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
01:00 PM		CS-383 02 Cloud, Parallel and Distributed Computing ST 107		CS-383 02 Cloud, Parallel and Distributed Computing ST 107
01:30 PM
02:00 PM
02:30 PM				Office Hours ST 110C
03:00 PM				Office Hours ST 110C
03:30 PM
04:00 PM

Online

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Office hours are subject to change—classes will be notified of any changes.
Office hours are also available by appointment—please contact me to make arrangements.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:00 AM					Preparation, Grading, Research and Professional Development
08:30 AM		CS-443 01 Software Quality Assurance and Testing ST 107		CS-443 01 Software Quality Assurance and Testing ST 107
09:00 AM			Office Hours ST 110C
09:30 AM			Office Hours ST 110C
10:00 AM	Office Hours ST 110C	CS-135 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107		CS-135 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107
10:30 AM	Office Hours ST 110C
11:00 AM
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:30 PM	CS-135 01 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107		CS-135 01 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107
01:00 PM				Office Hours ST 110C
01:30 PM				Office Hours ST 110C
02:00 PM	CS-242 02 Data Structures ST 107 (until 3:40pm)		CS-242 02 Data Structures ST 107 (until 3:40pm)
02:30 PM
03:00 PM
03:30 PM
04:00 PM

Online

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Spring 2015 Course Information

Fall 2015 Course Information

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 October 2014)

Computer Science Illuminated, Fifth edition
Nell Dale and John Lewis
Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781449672843
Textbook website

CS-348 01 Software Process Management

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 November 2014)

Version Control by Example
Eric Sink
Source Gear, 2011
ISBN-13: 9780983507901
Free downloads available here

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Prentice Hall, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780132350884
Textbook website
Available for no additional cost with an ACM Student Membership.

Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson
Dymaxicon, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781937965044
Available as a $0.99 Kindle book
Read the whole text online here

Head First Software Development
Dan Pilone and Russ Miles
O'Reilly Media, 2007
ISBN-13: 9780596527358
Textbook website
Available for no additional cost with an ACM Student Membership

CS-383 01, 02 Cloud, Parallel, and Distributed Computing

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 November 2014)

No required textbook. Materials will be provided by the instructor, and/or linked-to online.

CS-401 01 Software Development Process

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—31 October 2014)

Version Control by Example
Eric Sink
Source Gear, 2011
ISBN-13: 9780983507901
Free downloads available here

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Prentice Hall, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780132350884
Textbook website
Available for no additional cost with an ACM Student Membership

Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson
Dymaxicon, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781937965044
Available as a $0.99 Kindle book
Read the whole text online here

Head First Software Development
Dan Pilone and Russ Miles
O'Reilly Media, 2007
ISBN-13: 9780596527358
Textbook website
Available for no additional cost with an ACM Student Membership

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-135 01, 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-242 02 Data Structures

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-443 01 Software Quality Assurance and Testing

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

ACM Student Membership

If you are a Computer Science major, it is strongly suggested that you have an ACM Student Membership. An ACM Student Membership costs only $19 and you get access to a large number of benefits, including Safari Books, which includes electronic copies of some of the textbooks in your courses, as well as many other professional books.
The ACM is the world's largest educational and scientific computing professional society. As a soon-to-be professional in computing, you should be a member to keep up-to-date with advancements in the field. And it looks great on your resume!

Academic Lineage

Erdös Number

Random Photos

Based on the concept that one's Ph.D. advisor is one's academic parent. An interesting exercise, but don't read too much into it. From the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Mouse over a box for more details, click on a box to go to the full page.

The line from Ambrosius Rhodius goes back further (to include, among others, Copernicus) and I'll finish that later. I also need to do some more work to adjust the tooltip positioning.

My Erdös Number is at most 5. (Which is the median value.)

Karl R. Wurst (5) → Holly Yanco (4) → Tucker Balch (3) → Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (2) → Noga Alon(1) → Paul Erdös (0)

Coming soon...

Karl R. Wurst, PhD

Professor of Computer Science

Worcester State University

OpenMRS

FOSS2Serve

Teaching Open Source

Northeast Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Worcester State University Center for Teaching and Learning

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines

KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)

2014 George I. Alden Excellence in Teaching Award

1995 NSF Engineering Education Scholar

1994 Taylor L. Booth Teaching Fellow

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 October 2014)

CS-348 01 Software Process Management

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 November 2014)

CS-383 01, 02 Cloud, Parallel, and Distributed Computing

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—24 November 2014)

CS-401 01 Software Development Process

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

Textbook List: (Complete—31 October 2014)

CS-101 EL Basics of Computer Science

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-135 01, 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-242 02 Data Structures

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

CS-443 01 Software Quality Assurance and Testing

Syllabus (On GitHub, in progress, subject to change until class begins)

ACM Student Membership