Anne Jeannin-Girardon visited UFAZ in March 2018 and gave valuable insights about her teaching time at UFAZ. Anne is working at the University of Strasbourg where she is an associate professor in computer science at The Engineering science, computer science and imaging laboratory. While at UFAZ she is the professor of "Object oriented programming", she also teaches "Introduction to web programming", "Artificial intelligence and deep learning" and "English for computer science" course. Anne is at the same time the Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree in Computer Science of UFAZ since September 2017. 

We asked her several questions about her academic background and teaching activity at UFAZ. "The main purpose of the object-oriented programming course is to teach students to describe the real-life objects abstractly and through the computer language. Say if I want to describe the desktop, how to do that through the computer program? The idea is not to just describe the program, but also the data inside the software, which is also key subjects of the class." 

When asked about the main quality of UFAZ students, Anne had stressed that she was "very pleased by the level of interest to her subject in class. Even though one week is never enough to acquire the whole course, the students ask many questions, which shows the way to professor too: students kind of tell us the right direction we should take while introducing new concepts. I have witnessed the curiosity from very intellectual students who constantly show interest by asking questions during and after the class."

"I think it is always a good idea to bring something new into the existing culture of teaching. I believe that both French and Azerbaijani sides have common goals that we share in order to succeed in this unique initiative that is UFAZ. My experience here contributes a lot to my future way of teaching too. I had the opportunity to try new teaching methods with them. Like, for example, something I call "one-minute-sheet", where the main goal for me is to understand whether students listened and payed attention. I asked students to draft a short note about what they understood after each class. Now I can test my Strasbourg students in the exact same way so that I encourage them to ask more questions if something is left unclear."