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This is my Ada Lovelace Day post as promised in January . Today well over a thousand bloggers are posting posts about women in technology who they admire. The goal is the present role models to young women and girls as well as to highlight and honor the
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The the Faculty Resource Center which is easily reached from the Faculty Connection site has had some reorganization lately. And some new resources added. One piece is a number of Special Collaboration Areas. A couple that may be of interest to high school
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Over at the Microsoft Learning community blog I found a post with this month's Microsoft Press 25th Anniversary "Free e-Book of the Month" offer . It's available for a limited time only so grab them now! Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition:
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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 was checking the Microsoft Learning blog the other day and saw this announcement of some free eBooks as Microsoft Press continues its 25th Anniversary eBook giveaway. The books below are only available until December 24th so grab them now if they look
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This just out in time for Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah etc gifts for the programming geeks you know an love - Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More . The book’s web site is at http://www.c4fbook.com/
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Looking to learn or teach C#? Rob Miles announced that the C# Yellow Book which “ is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hull as the basis of the First Year programming course” is available as a PDF file. I went and grabbed
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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 received some information about some new offerings from Microsoft learning last week and thought they would be worth sharing with others. If you are looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 now or in the near future these resources may help you jump
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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
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I love Rob Miles blog . If there is a post from Rob in my RSS reader it is likely to be one of the first things I read. Rob is on the faculty of the University of Hull in England and is a real teacher. By that I mean he seems to really enjoy teaching
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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
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