Making the Grade: Tech Professor Blends Music, Computer Coding

Posted January 31, 2017

External Article: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Brian Magerko, associate professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was mentioned in “Making the Grade: Tech Professor Blends Music, Computer Coding” by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Excerpt:

The program grew out of conversations between Freeman and his EarSketch co-founder, Brian Magerko a musician and professor of digital media at Tech. “We were looking at ways to collaborate and settled on this problem of how to engage students in coding,” said Freeman. “We both saw the same thing: We use computers, but very few of us understand how they work, let alone how to control them or understand their potential.”

For the full article, read here.