Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 1986 (Computer and Information Science)
B.S. , Brooklyn College - 1978 (Mathematics / Computer and Information Science)
Areas of Expertise:
Programming languages and their translators, computer science education, object-oriented software development, interactive and online teaching and assessment software. Since the 1990's, Professor Weiss has been focused on educational software, and in particular, interactive programming exercise systems, resulting in the founding of Turing's Craft, Inc., and its flagship product CodeLab.
Creative Work
Weiss, Gerald and David Arnow. CodeLab - The Soranus Edition, Turing's Craft. CodeLab is an online programming exercise system for teaching programming and was used by more than 15,000 students worldwide in 2011. The Soranus Edition, named after Quintus Soranus, who invented the Table of Contents, introduced support for multiple tables of contents, faculty markup of student work, test case tables to guide student users, and faculty creation of exercises, was released in 2011. 2011
Weiss, Gerald and David Arnow. MyProgrammingLab, Pearson. MyProgrammingLab is part of the Pearson MyLab series of online supplemental instructional systems. MyProgrammingLab in particular consists of more than 700 interactive programming exercises. Four MyProgrammingLabs, each customized to a particular textbook, were released for: Software Solutions (Lewis and Loftus), Problem Solving with C++ (Savitch), Java: Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming (Savitch), and Starting Out With C++ (Gaddis). 2011