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June 2006
Jim Anderson
Former Professor & Coordinator
Web Technologies
and Networking Technology
Personal email: janderson4@gmail.com
Retired as of 6/30/2008 5:00 PM
Current and Past Activities
Currently: Developing Joomla version of 3gooddogs.com - focusing on books, book reviews, and all manner of thing related to the written word.
Spring 2005: Developed the 2005 SCC Grad Survey for SCC Planning & Research Office
Spring 2004: Developed the 2004 SCC Student Survey and 2004 SCC Faculty/Staff Survey for SCC Planning & Research Office
Spring 2003: Developed the Survey and Evaluation Instrument for the NCCCS colleges
Fall 1999 - Present: Developed and enhanced the Distance Learning and Classroom Online Evaluation Instrument for the SCC - first developed in Perl (Fall 99 - Spring 01) and then in ColdFusion (Spring 01 - present)
Fall 2001: Developed the SACS Document Database for SCC SACS Self-Study
Fall 1999: Initiated the Internet Technologies degree and certificate
Spring 1999: Initiated the Cisco Networking Academy certificate
Spring 1998: Taught PHI 215 Philosophical Issues
1997: Developed/taught first Distance Learning courses at SCC
1996-97: Created SCC and Internet Resources sites
1996-97: Re-built CEAT program under the semester system as Computer Engineering Tech. (CET)
1984-1996: Coordinator Computer Engineering Applications Tech. (CEAT)
1983: Named Sibley Professor for "Professional Achievement and Noteworthy Service"
1982-present: Taught every major PC operating system, Cisco networking, PC upgrade/repair, many versions of BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Assembly Language (6502 & 8088), XBase and Access database programming, many office applications, Web design & graphics, Internet protocols, Internet security, Internet programming (HTML, Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion).
1979-82: SCC Math Department
1978-79: SCC Continuing Education
1979: MA, Philosophy, Univ. of Florida
Thesis: "The Meaning of Emptiness in Thomas Merton's Contemplative Thought"
1971: BA, Philosophy, Univ. of South Alabama, Minors: Math, History
Here is my official (somewhat dated) resume as Word and PDF files.
Jim Anderson's Brief Biography

Jim has spent practically all of his adult life in post-secondary education. His last position was that of Professor and Coordinator of the Web Technologies and Networking Technology.
From 1984 until 2001 he taught and coordinated the Computer Engineering Technology A.A.S. curriculum. Since 1982, he has taught courses in almost every area of PC computer technology – including many programming languages, desktop applications, networking, PC hardware, and operating systems. He was instrumental in the creation of the Internet Technologies A.A.S. (now Web Technologies) curriculum for the state of North Carolina. He initiated the popular Network Administration & Support (now Networking Technology) A.A.S. degree program in the fall of 1999 and the Cisco Networking certificate at Sandhills Community College in the spring of 1999. He set up and administered SCC's Distance Learning Server (1999-2005). In 1997 he began the first Distance Learning courses at SCC. In 1996-97, he created and maintained the Sandhills Community College web site (sandhills.edu) until September 2005. During the same period he created and continues to maintain the Internet Resources (scc.pinehurst.net, 3gooddogs.com, jimanderson.org) web site, a documented link resource for many of the best sites for search engines, news, weather, maps, education, research, computer hardware, software, Windows, Linux, web development, web graphics, and much more. In 1983 he was named Sibley Professor for "Professional Achievement and Noteworthy Service." From 1979 till 1982 he taught in the SCC Math Department. On coming to SCC in 1978 he taught in SCC Continuing Education department.
In addition to teaching and administrative duties, since 1982 Jim has provided consulting services in the areas of PC applications, database programming, PC hardware and networking services.
Jim earned a M.A. in Philosophy, with a minor in Religion, in 1979 from the Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He received a B.A. in Philosophy, with minors in Mathematics and History, in 1971 from the Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.
His principal computer research interests are Joomla CMS Web development, PHP/MySQL and web services application development, and AJAX. His major non-computer interests are the history of physics since Maxwell, history in general and WWII in particular, and the history of ideas (inclusive of philosophy, theology, psychology, science, etc.), mystical theology, poetry, mystery and other literature, and a little SF.
He is the devoted companion to two unique alien beings (sometimes inappropriately referred to as "dogs"), from which he has learned more in the last five years than it is possible to measure, let alone compute.

Zoey, Spring 2006 Jim Anderson Bella, Summer 2006

A few quotes that regularly cycle through my brain.
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

"What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that you do it."

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
- James Matthew Barrie

"No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!"

"Loss is underestimated in America. ... I don't think you learn anything from winning. It just feels good, it feels great. You jump around. Wonderful, great feeling. But loss you think about. Loss makes you change the way you do things. Loss makes you consider how to do things differently."
- Pat Conroy

"The mark of the half-educated man is his assumptions that his outward successes and failures are absolute and real."
- Lin Yutang

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

"A web site is never finished, only abandoned."
- Jim Anderson

"My puppies sleepy enthusiasm at seeing me when they first wake in the morning...ah, is this not happiness?"
- Jim Anderson

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."
- Christopher Morley

"The secret of what something means lies in the ways that it connects to all the other things we know."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
-- Christopher Morley

"Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong."

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