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This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial’s blog post What changes CS Education? which you of course must read. No really. I’ll even wait. Back? OK a key summary jumped out at me: My first pass analysis suggests that, to make change in CS, invent
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Filed under: Visual Basic, C#, C++, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, APCS, education, Programming, Java, DreamSpark, Small Basic
So I have this soft spot in my heart for Carnegie Mellon University. I have been fortunate enough to take workshops there several times during my teaching career. They’ve been outstanding and incredibly valuable both for the in-class learning and
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Just on the heels of my finding the Java to C# Orange book I received the following announcement of a pre-conference workshop for SIGCE. Joe Hummel always does a great job with his workshops so I have no hesitation recommending this workshop. The Microsoft
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So perhaps you are teaching Java and your students want to learn C# (sea sharp). Or maybe you want to learn or teach C# your self and are coming from a Java background. Well I have found the free resource for you. Rob Miles who wrote the free “
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I get inspiration for blog posts from a number of places. Sometimes from Twitter (see yesterday’s post) and sometimes for other blogs. Actually other blogs are a constant and regular source of inspirations. Today’s post was inspired by a Programming Pop
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“What does this code do?” is often a bit of a gotcha sort of question. OK sometimes it is a simple thing to make sure a student understands the syntax but many times it is really asking if the student understands some underlying concepts of either the
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If you are an AP CS teacher one of the things that is an important part of your curriculum is the GridWorld case study. The case study is one of the key pieces of the APCS exam and understanding how it works and being able to use and modify it is very
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I just found out about the RampUp program. Briefly this is a program that lets people sign up for and take online training on various Microsoft developer technology such as web development and Visual Studio. There are special tracks for Java developers
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I've been talking to a lot of schools lately that are experimenting with game development using XNA in their courses. For some of them at least some of the motivation is to attract more students into their computer science programs. Springbrook High School
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I received a pair of announcements about summer workshops for teachers at Carnegie Mellon this summer. having attended a number of workshops at CMU over the years I have come to respect them as about the best learning opportunity a teacher can have. They
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