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Joel Spolsky is an interesting guy with strong opinions about software development and the education of people going into software development. Recently he posted a blog article called Capstone projects and time management which is pretty critical of
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One of the problems with knowing something about programming, computers and user interface design is that when you run into a poor design in the real world it really makes you wonder. I get this every time I use an ATM. Some of the commands require you
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One of the discussions that take place which I talk about Internet and computer safety is what makes a good password. Things I talk about are length of the password, mixing upper and lower case letters and including non-alphabetic characters. I found
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Oh you math teachers are going to love this one. No, really you will. And honestly it may encourage some of your programming students who don’t think they like math to get interested. I’m talking about a web site called Project Euler . There are well
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I love codes and ciphers. As a kid I loved to play with simple substitution ciphers. Since I like these sorts of applications anyway I was happy to see at post on the Visual Basic team blog called Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz) I love the story of
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Are you a member of the Special Interest Group for Computing Teachers (SIGCT) of ISTE? If you are then you probably know that the latest issue of the Journal for Computing Teachers is out. If not, well, think about signing up . Either way the Fall 2008
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Last week I was in Denver for a large middle school STEM event. They had a large selection of workshops for well over 1,000 middle school girls. My co-worker Hilary Pike did three workshops while I took care of our booth. During a lull I had a chance
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It’s no secret that one of the things I think is most valuable about teachers blogging is that they can share ideas for what works in the classroom. Good teachers are always either looking for or struggling to come up with projects that teach important
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One of the areas that is seeing huge growth lately is geo-coded information. Applications that take location information and other data to create useful maps is a big deal. Clint Rutkas has written a demo application and a rather complete explanation
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I’m in the middle of a deep review of some curriculum for developing web pages. ( This curriculum was talked about in a previous post .) It’s really good stuff and I think a lot of teachers will find it valuable. During the course of this review I came
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I love binary numbers. I was first taught about different number systems in grade school and was fascinated with them immediately. I used to convert decimal numbers into different base numbers just for the fun of it. So I guess it is not surprising that
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July was interesting. If you missed it (all you lucky teachers who got to actually relax and disconnect in July) here are some of the highlights according to comments, reads, and links followed. Tops would have to be the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle
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Leigh Ann Sudol has an interesting post titled The Beauty and Elegance of Computer SCIENCE . In it she talks about what makes a good example or exercise and the difference between an exercise and an example. One thing she leaves out, or perhaps just doesn’t
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So I was remembering a piece of code I had to write once. Honestly I don’t remember exactly why I had to write it. I think it may have been part of a set of patterned data for some test software though. In any case the problem was to generate a four digit
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June was an interesting month with two main topics that generated traffic and conversation. The most conversation was about women in computer science. Women and Minorities in Computer Science had several comments and attracted a lot of readers. But Articles
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