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about the author
Majed Marji holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Wayne State Uni-
versity and an MBA in strategic management from Davenport University.
He has over 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, where he
developed many software applications for real-time data acquisition, device
control, test-cell management, engineering data analysis, embedded con-
trollers, telematics, hybrid vehicles, and safety-critical powertrain systems.
Dr. Marji is also an adjunct faculty member with the Electrical Engineering
Department at Wayne State University. He has taught courses on communi-
cation engineering, machine vision, microprocessors, control systems, and
algorithms and data structures, among other topics.
about the technical reviewer
Tyler Watts, EdS, is a creative-computing educator who teaches sixth
through eighth graders in Kansas City (Kansas) Unified School District 500
and adult students at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He has been
using Scratch since 2009 as a tool to combat the digital divide and teach
students how to think like computer scientists. Since Tyler’s first year of teach-
ing Scratch, he has learned the importance of weaning learners off of the
“Scratch training wheels” and challenging them and molding them into
digital creators. He feels that programming is a form of personal expres-
sion and teaches his students to approach it as they would any other art
form and have fun.
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