Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator

I was honored to receive ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award1 for 2020 this past April. I was also surprised: while I think I've helped scientists through Software Carpentry and other projects, nothing I've done in the last twenty years seems to have had much influence on software engineering. It isn't for lack of trying. In the early 2000s I began teaching classes at the University of Toronto. One was titled "Software Architecture", and...