C.J. Jennings

I am a software developer and have been a tutor and teacher's assistant in the past. I enjoy tutoring because I like helping people improve.

For three years, I tutored computer science in college. The students tackled Python and Java programming exercises. I was a teacher's assistant in a 2-week coding bootcamp for High schoolers. Students learned the basics of programming in Ruby on Rails and built web sites of their own devising. Most recently, I tutored a student who was preparing for the Computer Science AP exam. My teaching focuses on mastery of concepts: I challenge my students not only to understand new ideas, but to apply them.

When students do not know how to proceed, I get them to think about the problem a different way. I have drawn diagrams on a whiteboard to convey concepts visually. When I see a bug in a student's code, I frequently ask them to emulate the computer and describe what their code is doing line-by-line. This usually helps the student see the flaw in their logic. Of course, I concentrate hard on not giving students solutions outright.

I tutor computer science in tandem with working as an industry professional. I maintained a desktop application written in C#, and a web applications written in Javascript and Java. I know object-oriented programming, database querying and design, and scripting languages.

Because of my technical knowledge and my strong communication, I am a good tutor. Please let me help you.