Summary
Pierre Bettens is a seasoned maître-assistant in computer science with over 12 years of higher-education experience and a career teaching programming, networks, and cybersecurity since the late 1990s. He favors active, peer-driven learning—individual exploration, team collaboration and pair programming—over traditional lectures, and pairs that pedagogy with practical skills in Java, C/C++, system administration (Debian, KVM) and documentation workflows (LaTeX, pandoc). Comfortable across a broad technical horizon rather than narrowly specialized, he blends software development, sysadmin duties and a growing interest in security while remaining an avid advocate of free software. Beyond academia he contributes to local cooperative initiatives and brings soft skills in shared governance, collective intelligence and non-violent communication to classroom and community settings.
12 years of coding experience
CAPAES - Certificat d'aptitude pédagogique appliquée à l'enseignement supérieur, Informatique, CAPAES - Certificat d'aptitude pédagogique appliquée à l'enseignement supérieur, Informatique at UMONS
Master, Mathematical sciences with computer science option., Master, Mathematical sciences with computer science option. at Université catholique de Louvain
CESS, CESS at Institut Technique Libre de Ath
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