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Filed under: Visual Basic, C#, C++, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, APCS, education, Programming, Java, DreamSpark, Small Basic
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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, CSTA, education, Programming, Alice, history, Small Basic, ACM
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I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some new things. Some things have new addresses. And the order of things changes for the audience. This list is from
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, C#, Computer Science Education, Microsoft, Visual Studio, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, DreamSpark, Small Basic
Microsoft Press is celebrating their 25th Anniversary with some free e-books. Two that may be interesting to educators are one on MS Robotics Studio and one on Visual Studio 2008 . These offers expire on October 22nd so act now. And tell others who could
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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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Clint has more on our Visual Basic vs. C# discussion on his blog today . Like Clint I am completely willing to let people choice the language of choice based on personal preference. One of the really great things about the .NET platform is how easily
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Clint Rutkas ( who is better than everyone ) Twittered his distaste for Visual Basic and preference for C# today. Now C# is a great language and I really do think that the features they borrowed from Visual Basic (properties for example) make it the best
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The incomparable Sara Ford is coming out with a book collecting the best 251 tips of the day for Visual Studio. Sara’s tips of the day blog posts have taught me quite a bit. So I’m pleased to see that they are coming together in a book form – yes I’m
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The Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 was originally created by Microsoft China to help meet the curriculum needs for teaching programming in that country. According to regulations/policies of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) almost
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If you were around in the early days of the .NET Framework you may remember a game called Terrarium. I believe that Microsoft may even have had a version running at SIGCSE one year. Bil Simser who is bringing it back fresh and updated via a CodePlex shared
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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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