Prof. Marcus Chen

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Lecturer · Coding & Data

Software engineer and educator specializing in Python, PostgreSQL, and GIS programming. Teaches CS-101, CS-201, and DB-401. Builds the data pipelines that power Urbanicity research tools.

CS-101 CS-301 DB-301 GIS-201

Contact & office

🏢 Online — office hours by video

Office hours: Mon 3:00 PM-5:00 PM · Malone Hall 224 | Thu 11:00 AM-1:00 PM · Malone Hall 224

College

M.S. Computer Science — Georgia Tech (2017)

B.S. Data Science — UC Berkeley (2014)

Family

Grew up over his parents' restaurant; still cooks the family menu.

🐾 Two cats, Turing and Ada

Teaching now — CS-101

Last #5 · Lesson 5: Lists, Tuples, and Dictionaries ↗

Current #6 · Lesson 6: String Manipulation and File I/O ↗

Next #7 · Lesson 7: Error Handling and Debugging ↗

Recommends

Advent of Code ↗

Reading list

The Pragmatic Programmer ↗

Hunt & Thomas · from the syllabus

Code ↗

Charles Petzold · from the syllabus

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat ↗

Samin Nosrat · cooking

Field

Python, PostgreSQL, GIS programming, data pipelines, web development