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How to teach the value of the command line in high school?Part of what I love about the particular adaptation I use for AP CS Principles — CS50 AP — is that my curriculum teaches students basic Linux shell commands in the Cloud9 IDE. Students learn things ...
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Is it important to teach pointers in a first course using Java?Many instructors teaching with Java started their education using earlier languages such as C or C++ in which pointers are essential. Pointers, however, are not a Java concept, though those same ...
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How to teach a person to enjoy programming?I've been teaching programming to my 13-year old son for over a year now. I'm not satisfied with his progress. I think that one of the reasons is his attitude: He wants to learn programming (he said ...
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How do you teach Big O to high schoolers with varying degrees of math exposure?My second semester programming curriculum includes a searching and sorting unit and mentions Big O notation, giving the notation for each search and sort we implement. It does not show the ...
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Why isn't there one language to use instead of different programming languages?One language is better. It is just better to learn one language rather than learn C++, Python, C#, etc. Just build one language that makes you build apps, websites, games, AIs, etc.
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On studying Computer Science vs. Software Engineering to become a proficient coderI’m mostly interested in the coding aspect of the CS and SE majors curricula. And I’m trying to decide between the two. Each major has its pros and cons, and they prepare you in very different ways ...
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How should floating point inaccuracies be explained and justified?When I first started working with floating point arithmetic, issues like the one illustrated in the sample below both frustrated and confused me: ...
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