Marge Coahran

Instructor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
USA

Office: Tome 246
Email: coahranm [at] dickinson [dot] edu

Office hours: Mon 1-2pm, Tues 10-11am, Thurs 1-2pm


Photos: funnel cloud, kitty

photo of me Bargello quilt photo
photo of my kitty
funnel cloud
Resources: Java 6 API LaTex Help Merriam-Webster Online BBC News
Teaching: Current (Spring 2012):
COMP132: Introduction to Computer Science II

Past:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College
COMP131: Introduction to Computer Science I (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
COMP251: Computer Organization and Architecture (Fall 2011)
COMP332: Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2010)
COMP394: Computer Graphics (Spring 2011)

Department of Computer Science, Grinnell College
CSC105: The Digital Age (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010)
CSC152: Fundamentals of Computer Science II (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
CSC161: Imperative Problem Solving and Data Structures (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
CSC201: Memory Management, Data Representation, Formal Methods (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
CSC211: Computer Organization and Architecture (Fall 2007, Fall 2009)
CSC295: Computer Graphics (Spring 2009)
CSC301: Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
MAT/SST115-01: Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2010)

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2005
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2004
Software: BargelloSketcher 1.0: Easy-to-use software for designing Bargello quilts. Free download for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Also available for Linux by request. Launched: August 2011.
Posters: Coahran, M., and C. Manders, "Hands-on laboratory projects for Computer Organization courses", ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (March 2008).
Publications: Computer-Assisted Bargello Quilt Design, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September, 2005. Supervised by Eugene Fiume.

Coahran, M., and E. Fiume, "Sketch-based design for Bargello quilts", Eurographics Symposium Proceedings: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (Sept. 2005), Takeo Igarashi, Joaquim Jorge (Eds.), 165-174.

Coahran, M., and Colbourn, C.J., "Maximum and average access cost in double erasure RAID disk arrays", Proc. 35th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (April 2004), Congressus Numerantium, 167, 209-219.
Education: M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2005
B.S. Physics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1987
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