Computers are just so useful in all domains of human endeavour, and giving people the skills to do interesting things with them is really important work. I really enjoy it, too 😃

INFO

I’m currently on a teaching break, but I’ll be back in S2 2026 with a new course: COMP4020/8020: Rapid Prototyping for the Web.

Upcoming courses

• COMP4020/8020: Rapid Prototyping for the Web is a brand new course in S2 2026. I’m currently finalising the content, but here’s the blurb:

  LLM agents, which run tools (e.g. search the web, edit files, run code) in a loop to achieve a goal, offer a new workflow for developing software. This is especially true for application domains which are well-represented in LLM training sets—like the web.

  Moving beyond naive “vibecoding”, this course provides a studio-based “iterate and test with working prototypes” approach to rapidly prototyping web apps. In the weekly lectures students will learn fundamental concepts and practical skills for harnessing an agentic AI/LLM development workflow. In the weekly “studio session” tutorials, students will demo their work-in-progress prototypes and receive feedback from peers and instructors. By the end of the course each student will have designed, developed and deployed multiple web apps prototypes using a rapid, feedback-driven process.

Past courses

• COMP2710/6470: Laptop Ensemble in Semester 1 (Feb–Jun) is a course open to students in computer science, music, art, and elsewhere at ANU (the course is co-taught with MUSI2205 in the ANU School of Music). In this course students learn fundamental skills of music computing, including digital synthesis, algorithmic composition, and musical interface design, putting these skills to use creating a computer musical instrument, composition, or interactive media work to present in concert at the end of the course.

• EXTN1019: ANU Extension Creative Computing in Semester 1 (Feb–Jun) is a course where ACT Year 11 & 12 students learn the fundamentals of computer programming through the creative process of making music and visual art. As well as creating and performing their own new works of code-based art & music, this course contributes towards the students’ ATAR and they receive credit towards an undergraduate computing degree if they choose to study at ANU.

• COMP2300/6300: Computer Organisation and Program Execution is ANU’s introductory computer architecture course, which I wrote and delivered from 2017–2018. In this course students take a complex computer system (the STM32L476G discovery “disco” board) home from week 1 and learn about CPUs and how programs are organised and executed.

• COMP1720/6720: Art & Interaction in New Media is a course about learning to tell stories through interactive code art. No previous coding or artistic experience is required: COMP1720 teaches everything from the ground up.

• The COMP2710 Internet of Things China Study Tour is an in-country intensive study course conducted in partnership with the Beijing Institute of Technology.

If you’re a student at the ANU, then I encourage you to take one (or more!) of these courses—I think they’re pretty great 😃

I also give regular guest lectures & run workshops on various topics in my areas of expertise. If you’re interested in hiring me as a speaker, get in touch.