Mattias Appelgren

My goal in our first meeting(s) will be to ascertain what you are needing help with during our tutoring. I will then work with you through your textbooks or past assignments to look at the things you do well and the things you do badly. I then build a personal plan where we will focus on understanding the fundamental building blocks of the topic at hand. From understanding these basic concepts we will build a solid foundation which will help the student going forwards.
I work to collaborate with the student, I will try to motivate them to believe that they can learn the concepts and materiel, but I will not motivate them to want to learn. That truly has to come from themselves. There are very many good reasons to learn computer science in this day and age and if you have an interest in talking about it I can tell them much about topics such as Artificial Intelligence given that is my main field of expertise.
My goal is also to be practical. Computer Science is in essence a practical pursuit. It is about making computers do what we want them to through programming and clever algorithm design. As such we will always have that practicality in mind. Always try to connect the concepts we are learning to their application in the real (virtual) world.
I hope that learning with me will not only help my students understand the concepts they are faced with but may also give them a practical framework for learning and solving problems in the future focused on digging down into the weeds and getting a firm understanding of things.