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When the popular computer scientist received tenure in 2000, his colleague, Henry H. Leitner, remarked, "We need more people like Michael Smith. Undergraduates love him, his teaching evaluations are always among the very highest. Harvard did very well in this case...
...Senior Lecturer Henry H. Leitner, who teaches Computer Science 51, the notoriously grueling departmental introduction to object-oriented programming, says he believes undergrads are better suited to teaching his course because the students he hires have taken the course very recently and so are intimately familiar with the concepts and assignments...
...Undergrads are much more in tune with what students know and don't know," Leitner says...
...maintain fairness in his course, Leitner says that assignments are graded according to very detailed and precise grading standards, and sections are assigned so that no TF knows any students in his section...
...addition to his merits as a researcher, Smith is also an outstanding teacher, Leitner added...