In this talk, I will discuss why I believe that computer science should be taught as a diverse and multi-disciplinary subject. I will also describe an adaptive teaching process with feedback based on students’ assessment: a process which incorporates tools, references, help for the students, hands-on projects and in-class experience based on problem solving and bonus work.

Lina Battestilli received an M.S. degree in Computer Networking in 2002 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2005, both from NCSU. She has over ten years of industry experience. Most recently, she spent three years at the Next Generation Computing Group in the Research Division of IBM where she worked on projects aimed at transforming the Datacenter to a dynamic Cloud. In Spring 2012, she was the project coordinator for the Cloud Computing Technology class at NCSU.