Cihan Tiambeng
Software Developer
46.
I would like to give my condolences to David Davenport's family and friends, and to the rest of us. For a Bilkent computer engineering student David was our first CS professor and introduced us to this fantasitic world computational science. His joy in teaching reverence for the subject let us know what we were in for in just within the first few weeks of university. Whatever we had known before was supplanted by this sense of wonder in a world where machines talked. No one taught a class like David Davenport. With his examples and analogies and his own self made slides, programming wasn't just words and symbols put together that you would hope to compile before lab ends but small worlds that we could make up where each thing has a place and they all interact with one another, for a lack of a better term, it was like magic. I think it is this understanding of programming is what makes a Bilkent Computer Engineer a little different from the rest, and it is thanks to David Davenport. If you need to be reminded what it was all like again check out his academic website, whether it is your first time ever, or your frist time since you were in Bilkent, or if it is just something you browse once in a while to remind you of your college days, we have something so well made that captured the essence of what we knew of David Davenport. May he rest in peace.
18.02.2021 08:54