Reflections on SIGCSE from the past 30 years

Imagine attending a conference and going to a lunch that would change the direction of your life. That was me at SIGCSE 1994 finding out about a new teaching position. Since 1993, I have attended every SIGCSE Symposium and many other SIGCSE conferences; they have impacted my life in many ways. I have met colleagues, integrated ideas I learned into my teaching, and even changed the direction of my career from tenure-track research to teaching-track focused on computer science education. In what follows I reminisce about my experiences with SIGCSE and its impact on me over the past 30 years. © 2018 ACM.