1,190 ratings
Intro to AI nerd
Jeanie P.
I make coding feel like solving a clear little puzzle.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Computer Science (Software Systems concentration)
Hometown
Seattle, Washington
A note from Jeanie
“Most students aren't bad at CS — they're guessing where they should be tracing.”
I teach you to read your own code the way a debugger does: one line at a time, asking "what did I actually tell the computer to do?" instead of what you meant. A program is just a stack of small honest decisions, and the day you can trace one by hand is the day you can write a thousand.
Jeanie’s story
At fourteen Jeanie wrote a text-adventure game in Python that crashed the instant a player typed a word she hadn't planned for; she spent a rainy Seattle winter reading her own crash logs to find out why, and learned to program from her bugs instead of a textbook. She nearly quit CMU after scoring a 41 on her first 15-122 (Principles of Imperative Computation) exam, until a TA pointed out her code wasn't broken — her mental model of the call stack was. She rebuilt it, finished the course in the top decile, then captained CMU's 48-hour game-jam team for two years and shipped a two-player climbing game that took the audience award at Carnegie Tech Game Jam. She boulders V5 on weekends and coaches CS the same way she climbs: find the one move you keep avoiding, commit to it, and try.
What students say
4.9 ★ · 1,190 ratings
“I walked in failing intro Java at 58 percent, convinced I just didn't think like a programmer. Jeanie made me trace recursion on paper with the call stack drawn out by hand until the base case clicked. I finished the course at 94. She never once just gave me the answer.”
“Anaya wanted to drop AP CS A after a 2 on her March practice exam. Jeanie drilled the array and 2D-array FRQ patterns with her every Sunday for a semester. Anaya got a 5 in May and is applying to CMU this fall. I budgeted for a tutor and got a turning point.”
“I kept freezing on the whiteboard round of coding interviews even when I knew the answer. Jeanie made me narrate my logic out loud before writing a single line, the way she debugs. I cleared the technical at a Series B fintech and start as an SWE intern in June. Knocked off half a star only because I wanted more mock rounds.”