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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:57 AM

A Group Project – Create an Index File System

Back when I first started writing code for commercial use I was working on a project on a small computer (about the size of a small refrigerator) that was also a very low cost computer (well under $100,000). Obviously a computer like that could not support
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:56 AM

Who Cares How Fast the Code Is?

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/27/who-cares-how-fast-the-code-is.aspx'; Ironically one of the problems teachers can have with teaching about optimizing programs is that computers are a) so fast now and b) getting faster all
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:07 AM

XML in Schools - Is Now the Time?

The other day I was chatting online with a good friend of mine. Dave was a teacher but has gone back to industry. He's a SharePoint consultant these days. Its been a real learning experience for him and he seems to be enjoying it. But one of the things
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:55 AM

Do We Really Need Computer Applications Classes?

Right now I think we pretty obviously do. In the long run I think we'd be better off without them though. David Warlick asks a similar question in his blog and a companion poll. The way he asks it is “ Are computer applications something that should be
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Friday, March 23, 2007 2:55 AM

Learning things the hard way

One of the first things I did when I took over as Technology Coordinator for my last school was to start putting together a backup plan. We eventually had nightly incremental backups and weekly full backups. We had several weekly backups at any given
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:12 PM

Take Part in a National Survey of High School Computer Science

The CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) is conducting a survey of the state of high school computer science in the US. If you are a high school computer science teacher in the US please take part in this survey . There is a lot of discussion
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:30 AM

Getting Started with SQL Server Express - Video Training for Beginners

I see that Microsoft has released five more videos in their SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for Beginners series . (Now that is a mouthful of a title. There are now 13 difference videos that make up almost 9 hours of training. The videos can be watched
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Friday, January 12, 2007 2:47 AM

Picking Programming Languages for High School - Never Ending Story

I see that Susan Canaga is bringing her school's discussion on programming languages looking for industry opinions. This is a topic I have addressed a number of times before (most recently here ) but one which never seems to be settled. In any case if
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 21 Comments
Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:21 AM

Static Typing, Dynamic Typing or maybe both?

Erik Meijer has a new interview up on Channel 9 . Erik is one of the people at Microsoft who I have a ton of respect for. Erik is a brilliant computer scientist (he used to be a university computer science professor) who is currently working in a product
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:19 PM

Databases for Beginners

Now available for free is a series of video lessons that use SQL Server 2005 Express Edition to teach databases. The whole series starts here and includes over four hours of video-based instruction. There are 8 lessons in all and they start at the very
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