Christopher Bourke
Associate Professor Of Practice
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Bourke is an Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with 16 years of higher-education and industry experience, including prior work as an optimization systems engineer. He earned a PhD in Computer Science and focuses on teaching introductory and honors courses while researching CS education, complexity theory, and machine learning. Christopher authors open-access textbooks and course materials, runs a popular YouTube channel for computing students, and publishes in top CS education venues, blending scholarship with practical pedagogy. He also contributes to course-management tooling on GitHub, applying backend PHP and OOP skills to automate grader assignment and team formation—an example of translating classroom needs into reusable software. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he combines rigorous academic credentials with hands-on software development and optimization experience.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (3)
php10
object-oriented-programming10
scripting9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cbourke/ComputerScienceI
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Computer Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:389 commits, 24 PRs, 419 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the backend logic of the computer science repository, with commits focused on creating and maintaining PHP scripts. The code differences include the addition of scripts for assigning graders and making teams, which points to the development of course management tools. The user demonstrated skills in object-oriented programming with PHP and data manipulation.
computer-sciencescience
cbourke/CSCE155-Java-Lab10
May 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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