Kris Jordan
Director at The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKris Jordan is a director and Professor of the Practice at UNC Chapel Hill with 17 years of experience teaching and shaping computer science education. Over his first decade at UNC he introduced software engineering and CS to more than 12,000 undergraduates while mentoring a large cohort of undergraduate TAs, demonstrating scalable teaching and program leadership. He directs the CS Experience Lab, combining academic instruction with experiential learning and curriculum design. Kris also contributes to open-source documentation efforts, helping reorganize and modernize the widely used "PHP: The Right Way" resource. A former founder of a digital agency, he brings practical product and deployment experience to academic programs. Based in Chapel Hill, he holds a BS with honors from UNC and an Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.M. Computer Science, Sc.M. Computer Science at Brown UniversityBS with Honors Computer Science, BS with Honors Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github contributions (5)
codeguy/php-the-right-way
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focuses on restructuring and updating the PHP "The Right Way" guide. They are re-organizing the content by adding new sections, like "Getting Started" and "Servers and Deployment", and moving existing topics into more logical categories. They are updating the table of contents and sidebar navigation links to reflect the new structure, while also migrating to a post-based structure for content organization.
phplinksstandardsauthoritative
comp110/team110.github.io
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:663 pushes in 10 months
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