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Category Archives: Computer Science
Alan Turing Google Doodle
Very cool. Alan Turing got his own Google Doodle for a 100th birthday present.
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Copyright overkill
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, it’s only a Hello World program, but they created this specific one. If you want … Continue reading
Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB – take 2
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 … Continue reading
Another good use for mod
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 is and how to do it, but the purpose. The classic isOdd / isEven lab … Continue reading
Predicting the stock market with Twitter
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 tweets to gauge the collective mood of the users and have been able to predict … Continue reading
String methods in Scratch BYOB
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 especially now with the BYOB 3 version from Berkeley. Adding in the ability to have … Continue reading
Where Americans are moving
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 and out of that county. Red is out of the county and red is in … Continue reading
CompSci Minor and employment
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 students that show computer science as something other than the Office Space view of a … Continue reading
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Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB
One of the biggest limits we came across teaching with Scratch this year is the inability to write methods and use parameters. Methods, returns, and parameters are probably the only major concept in our intro CompSci class that we can’t … Continue reading
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