I'm a professor of information systems (MIS) and, although I like to think of myself as a hacker, I'm probably not. I was a web developer years ago (1995-2001)

I'm a professor of information systems (MIS) and, although I like to think of myself as a hacker, I'm probably not. I was a web developer years ago (1995-2001) and continue to program various things on hobby projects and in my research (some social science simulations in R and Python). My main teaching is a capstone project course for IS undergrads, which started out as a traditional project management (PMBOK) course, and has evolved into a more practical exploration of software development from version control, to scrum, to testing, to DevOps. Hacker News has been a great source of ideas for what to explore in class. The worst thing about my job is that I have no time to become really good at anything, instead having to be a dabbler in a hundred different things. (Or maybe that just means I'm a "full stack" guy? Heh.) The best thing about my job is that I have a couple hundred students come through my classes each year, so I can assign them to try these things out and I can see how they work.