Steve Cross

Math Instructor • Programmer • Journalist • Web Developer

Backgound

With a background in programming and a recent certificate in IT, he specializes in web development, software development, and educational software. My notable projects include writing a C compiler, developing a CADD system, and creating educational math software used globally by high school teachers.

In the East Bay he taught Math and Chess at the Renaissance Middle School in Oakland and graded calculus papers as a student at UC Berkeley.

In Kentfield he taught Math and Computer Science at the College of Marin.

In Santa Cruz County he tutored Math through Cabrillo College's Mesa Program and was a TA for a Machine Learning Graduate course at UCSC.

Programming

His most interesting projects were the design of the generic chess engine in C for Heuristic Software Systems of Berkeley and the Geometry Constructions of Euclid in WebGL and Javascript for the Visual Math Institute of Santa Cruz.

He has also written a compiler for computer scientists, a CADD system for civil engineers, and medical imaging software for radiologists.

Journalism

As a staff writer he put the Cabrillo Voice online with Wordpress and negotiated a certificate in online journalism with the Digital Media and Journalism deparmtnents. Samples of his writing for the Cabrillo Voice online are at Cabrillo Voice Online Archive.

Web Development

He wrote the original site for Cabrillo's Internship program CWEE in Drupal, Fall 2012.

He sometimes blogs at his sites ai-maths.net and remedialchess.com as well as at chess.com with handle stamma1

Current Plans

He plans to

  • Write customized and functional websites.
  • Introduce set theory and fractal geometry into the high school curriculum.