Gary Langner

Instructor

Mr. Gary Langner has almost 40 years of experience in education. His very first job was at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. during the turbulent summer of 1968. But most of his career was spent teaching in a Kansas City suburb where he taught business classes and computer science. He had been teaching computer science long before the AP exam was first offered in Pascal and was a pioneer in his district in offering their first APCS class. He then transitioned to C++ and finally to JAVA.

After a brief retirement and an eight-week trip to Southeast Asia he taught JAVA, was the tech-coordinator and assistant principal at an inner-city school for four years. In the late 1980s he took a short break in the middle of his career to work for the United States Senate where he took on the task of training network administrators how to manage their local area networks as they were moving from mini computers and typewriters to PCs.

He now lives in his retirement home on the beach in North Carolina, but because of his love for teaching programming Gary still makes a sixty-minute round-trip drive each day to teach in a small coastal high school. In his free time you might find him fishing in the surf or in his beach chair reading a current best seller. On some days you might be corresponding with him from that spot on the beach as he taps out his comments and grades from his dependable laptop.