I’ve been using NetBeans to teach Computer Science for a while now, but it’s always seemed a bit heavy. Came across a post on the…
I’ve been using NetBeans to teach Computer Science for a while now, but it’s always seemed a bit heavy. Came across a post on the…
Very cool. Alan Turing got his own Google Doodle for a 100th birthday present.
There really are some things that don’t need to be copyrighted. Take the following example for, well, example. Oracle wanted to protect their IP. Sure,…
This is a follow up from a post I did about a year and a half ago on using Scratch BYOB to teach recursion. The original way of defining parameters in BYOB were a bit clunky, but it’s gotten much better in recent versions so it seems a good time for an update.
A bit about BYOB
If you haven’t tried Scratch in your intro computer science classes run, don’t walk, and give it a try. It’s early October and our intro students just finished their first pass through a unit on list processing. There’s no way we would be where we are if we had to worry much about syntax, and Scratch takes care of that by letting students drag and drop pieces together rather than worry about classes, methods, braces, and semicolons.
Got to admit that mod is one of those topics that I have trouble getting across to my students. Not the idea of what it…
Looks like there may be more to Twitter than just a list of what everybody’s cat is doing. Researchers at Indiana University used 10 million…
Each of the last 3 years we’ve been able to get more and more out of Scratch as it went from 1.2 to 1.4, and…
Cool use of technology and data mining. Forbes.com has a map that lets you click on a county and see where people are moving into…
Came across a new blog to add to my reader last week called CompSci Woman. I’m always on the lookout for articles to give my…
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