University of Michigan - Flint

University of Michigan-Flint

Biography of Linda M. Hicks

Linda M. Hicks is a Lecturer at University of Michigan - Flint (U of M-Flint) , in the Computer Science, Engineering Science and Physics Department (CSESP). 

She received a Bachelors of Arts in Education from Michigan State University.  After teaching science and math classes at McGrath Middle School, Grand Blanc, Michigan, for a couple years, she took time off to have two sons.  She resumed her education at the University of Michigan - Flint, where she received a Bachelors of Science in Computer degree.  This was during the tremendous growth in the field of computer science, and she was asked to teach a couple computer science classes while she was still a student.  She has been a full-time Lecturer in Computer Science since 1982.  Ms. Hicks obtained a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Science from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. 

Ms. Hicks has taught programming courses in the languages:  LIST, Fortran, PL/1, Pascal, COBOL, C, C++ and Java.  She has taught digital logic, microcomputer architecture, computer organization and assembly language for the IBM 360/370 machines, and for the Intel 8088 family of processors. 

In 2000 she conceived of, and developed a course in web design, CSC 263.  This popular course has been taught regularly since it's inception.  Courses in intermediate web design, CSC 293 and web programming CSC/CIS 363, were also developed. 

Ms. Hicks is a member of the the International Webmasters Association ("IWA") and The HTML Writers Guild (HWG).

She is webmaster for the CSESP Department.

 

Linda Helping students in the computer lab


 

 

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