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Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:35 AM

Some Interesting and Useful Curriculum Links - Visual Basic, XNA, Other Intro CS

Over the holiday I did some browsing around the Internet. I found a couple of new blogs to follow, read some posts by people who hadn't blogged in a while, and just stumbled across some interesting things while looking for something completely different.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:30 AM

Will the Kindle Change the World of Textbooks

There is a lot of talk on the Internet today about Amazon's new electronic book called the Kindle . The talk among bloggers is largely about subscribing to blogs. Others are talking about books for, mostly, pleasure reading. I am wondering though if this
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:29 AM

XNA Student Projects/Games

It looks like a lot of my co-workers have been running into students who are having fun creating games with XNA . Hilary Pike writes about a student from her alma mater (The Ohio State University) who is interested in a lot more than football. In fact
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:02 PM

Object Oriented Programming in Visual Basic 2005

I've never been very good at taking notes and here are NECC hasn't been much of an exception. While I have blogged about a number of sessions for the most part I have just listened intently but not blogged or taken notes. I have to say that I regret this
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, May 21, 2007 3:21 AM

Irrelevant Programming Languages

Mark Hendrickson from O'Reilly has an interesting review of the market for computer books in a four part series. The fourth part examines the programming language book market. I have no doubt that it is a valuable discussion for people who are thinking
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments
Monday, March 05, 2007 1:58 AM

Beginner Developer Learning Center

The Visual Studio Express people have just announced a new Beginner Developer Learning Center . The main part of the site is for beginners of all ages who are interested in learning how to program computers or design and build dynamic web sites. It looks
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Friday, December 08, 2006 5:41 AM

What if what you see is not what you get

I read a resume recently where the job applicant told of his 7 years of professional experience. It read as if he thought that was a long time. I have over four times that much experience and yet I still feel like a newby at times. Things are just changing
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:25 AM

Objects Early, Objects Late, Objects Never?

Sometimes just when you think an argument is over and become a settled issue someone else comes up an reopens it. Sometimes what you discover is that people have been as much beaten into submission as convinced my the arguments. All they were waiting
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:20 PM

Visual Basic Textbook Review and Saving Class Time

I'm enjoying following Chris Higgins ' first year teaching computer science at his blog. On Friday he posted a pair of interesting posts. One is a review of the textbook he is using. The other is a description of how he is using some web based tools to
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:19 AM

C# Textbooks

I've been getting questions about C# (pronounced Sea Sharp or C Sharp) textbooks for high school courses lately. There are a lot of C# books out there but I think most of them are aimed either at professional developers or college level programs. Teachers
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:05 AM

Visual Basic 2005 Jump Start

My friend and co-worker Martin Schray (check out his resources page) just sent me a copy of his new book – Jump Start Guide for Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 . It’s a really useful book if you are upgrading from earlier versions of Visual Basic but it is
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Monday, June 12, 2006 5:04 PM

Text Book Writing

About 10 years ago now I was sitting in the teacher’s lounge and the mail came in. There was a package for me and it was tossed on the table in front of me. Seeing the return address I knew exactly what it was and hurried to open it. One of my friends
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