Austin Z. Henley

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee - Knoxville

353 Min H. Kao Bldg
1520 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

azh@utk.edu
@austinzhenley
github/AZHenley

Blog Articles

I write about software engineering, academia, game development, and usability. (RSS feed)

More challenging projects every programmer should try (12/20/2020)
Progress bars still lie: Please fix them (11/23/2020)
List of human-centered software engineering dissertations (11/22/2020)
Parsing RISC-V assembly (10/26/2020)
Useful functions for game development (9/21/2020)
Implementing cosine in C from scratch (7/19/2020)
Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 3 (7/5/2020)
Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 2 (6/5/2020)
Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 1 (5/5/2020)
Books I recommend to my software engineering students (2/29/2020)
Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this? (1/27/2020)
What's wrong with computational notebooks? (1/19/2020)
Going viral on Reddit and Hacker News (12/28/2019)
Challenging projects every programmer should try (12/11/2019)
Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Facilitator (10/27/2019)
Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Catch All (10/7/2019)
Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Object Dictionaries (9/30/2019)
Is optional null better? (9/4/2019)
The 8 lessons I learned from releasing 8 video games (7/17/2019)
Quick start guide to research on human factors of software engineering (7/7/2019)
Type inference has usability problems (6/27/2019)
What I got from 5 internships during grad school (9/9/2018)
Faculty interview questions I asked and got asked (5/14/2018)
My favorite Wikipedia articles about science (11/11/2016)