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Early tomorrow I get to the airport to fly to Washington DC for NECC. Saturday is the CS&IT Symposium run by the Computer Science Teachers Association ( CSTA ) with sponsorship from Microsoft Research, Intel and some company that sells ads on Internet
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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