Irv Kalb
Adjunct Professor at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolIrv Kalb is an experienced software developer and educator based in Mountain View, CA, with nearly a decade of adjunct teaching and over a decade consulting on educational software. He builds curriculum and teaches Python and object-oriented programming using materials he developed from scratch, while also designing interactive e-learning systems and custom LMS reporting used at multiple universities. His consulting work spans leading development teams and sole-authoring reusable frameworks for multimedia courses, accessibility-focused apps for children with disabilities, and consumer video tools. A hands-on full-stack practitioner (Python, Java, HTML, SQL) who moves quickly between teaching, instructional design, and production code, he also contributes practical open-source Python examples that refine UI and image handling. Colleagues and students consistently recognize him for clear communication, project discipline, and a knack for turning complex instructional needs into robust, extensible software.
9 years of coding experience
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at West Coast UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (10)
user-interface10
object-oriented-programming10
pygame10
python10
game-development9
image-manipulation9
abstract9
abstract-class6
macos6
inheritance6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IrvKalb/Object-Oriented-Python-Code
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Code from Object-Oriented Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Irv made updates and name changes to the code. The changes involved replacing calls to `blit` in chapter 15 programs with the use of `Image` and `ImageCollection` objects. This suggests a focus on improving the user interface and potentially optimizing the rendering of images. The changes include modifications to Python files and code for a Rock Paper Scissors game.
object-orientedpythonpython3
IrvKalb/pygwidgetsExamples
Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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