Mark Mahoney
Professor Of Computer Science at Playback Press
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolMark Mahoney is a computer science professor and founder of Playback Press who blends three decades of academic and industry experience to reinvent how programming is taught. With a PhD focused on aspect-oriented software development and a long tenure leading Carthage College’s CS department, he teaches everything from Data Structures to Software Engineering while emphasizing real-world, creative problem solving. He created the interactive "code playbacks" medium and the open-source Storyteller tool to turn static examples into guided, multimedia code walkthroughs that have supplanted his traditional textbooks and demos. His research and design work around state-based systems and crosscutting concerns inform both his pedagogy and pattern writing. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he pairs scholarly rigor with practical engineering roots from Motorola, making him equally at home in classroom, repo, or prototype.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Roosevelt UniversityHarper College
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Github Skills (30)
ajax7
hosting7
type-conversion6
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design-patterns6
singleton6
vscode-extension6
multithreading6
subclassing6
java6
visual-studio-code6
javascript6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
markm208/markm208.github.io
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:59 pushes in 7 years 8 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
markm208/cppbook
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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