Changed the way I think
Mr Wittry changed the way I think about the world. I may not be a computer programmer, but the paradigms of OOP and efficiency I learned from Wittry affects the way I do so many simple, everyday things. He was a great teacher, and proved that those of us who are not mathematical or computer geniuses can still understand and enjoy Comp Sci.
Mr Wittry will live on in his children (who I hope are as cute in Halloween costumes as ever), his wife, friends, and the hundreds of students whose thinking and goals he has forever shaped.
“Where there was a person, a voice, a range and welter of experience compressed into lines and images, now there are only lines and images. Where there was a life, now there is a form. And the form, spoken, breathes of that life out into the world again. It restores a human presence, […] the turns of thought and of phrase, the habits of saying, that make those words unmistakeable.