John Beatty
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     Office Location: MC 2107
     Office Phone:    x  4525
     Email:           jcbeatty@cgl.uwaterloo.ca
     Office Hours:    TBA, or (almost) any time you find me there.

Some courses I teach at the University of Waterloo.

Teaching in Africa.

This is the "machine room" at the Malawi College of Accountancy, where I taught computer literacy in 1991-93 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. (Malawi is a small country in central Africa, west of Mozambique and south of Tanzania.)
     The College had three PS/2's (80286-based machines) and three totally useless dual-floppy Amstrad's (8086's). Three IBM PC XT's donated by Wes Graham's Computer Systems Group and Paul Dirksen of DCS arrived in late 1991, doubling the computing power shared by the 50-60 students I taught each term...
     Not everybody in Malawi owns a computer ... 85% of the population are subsistence farmers, living in mud huts (like the larger building shown to the right) that lack electricity and water.
     (You can click on either of these two images to display a larger version.)

Some good books I have read...

  1. Pop Internationalism, by Paul Krugman (reviewed by The Economist).
  2. Primary Colours, by Anonymous.
  3. We're Right, They're Wrong, by James Carville.
  4. The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker.
  5. The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.
  6. A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel.
  7. Ces enfants de ma vie, by Gabrielle Roy.
  8. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron.
  9. The Faded Sun Trilogy, by CJ Cherryh.