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Collection of student CS competitions & award programs

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:52AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/09/round-up-of-student-technology.html

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What Are People Better At (Than Computers)

Posted by Alfred2 on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:27AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/09/what-are-people-better-at-then-computers.html

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Harassment in the Computer Science Classroom

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @06:49PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/09/harassment-in-computer-science-classroom.html

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How Google Glass Disrupts The Sports Image Monopoly

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @05:06PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/09/how-google-glass-disrupts-sports-image.html

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Beyond Teaching Computer Science

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday August 29, 2013 @09:55PM
from the connectlearningtoday.com dept.

http://connectlearningtoday.com/beyond-teaching-computer-science/

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Beware the self-taught know it all

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @10:06PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/08/beware-self-taught-know-it-all.html

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Tricky coding questions are a bad idea

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:01PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/07/trick-questions-are-bad-idea.html

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Interviews with high school computer science teachers

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:13AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/07/cs-educator-interviews-index.html

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Interview with Pat Yongpradit from Code.Org

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @09:58AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/07/cs-education-interview-pat.html

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Computer Science Education Act (CSEA)

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:02PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/06/computer-science-education-act-csea.html

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Your GPA doesn't mean anything useful

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:23AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/06/your-gpa-doesnt-mean-anything-useful.html

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Two Sides: Putting Industry Professionals in the Classroom

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday June 20, 2013 @08:31AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/06/two-sides-putting-industry.html

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About the lack of interest by "education leaders" for computer science education

Posted by Alfred2 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:55AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/06/they-just-dont-seem-to-get-it.html

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Re:A friend helped out my startup, are they entitled to equity? on Saturday June 01, 2013 @08:30PM (#5806724)

Legally or morally? I would say so morally. Legally is anyone's guess but you'd be crazy to take the advice of anyone other than a lawyer on that question.

How to overcome Silicon Valley

Posted by Alfred2 on Saturday June 01, 2013 @08:28PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/06/how-to-overcome-silicon-valley.html

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Sexism and Women in Computing

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:37AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/sexism-and-women-in-technology.html

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Why do/should companies invest in CS education

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:36AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/whats-in-it-for-company.html

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How many fart apps do we need?

Posted by Alfred2 on Saturday May 11, 2013 @01:33PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/how-many-fart-apps-do-we-need.html

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Why Search Engines Can’t Replace Teachers (yet?)

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @04:38PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/why-search-engines-cant-replace.html

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The book, as reimagined by video game makers

Posted by Alfred2 on Friday April 12, 2013 @10:53PM
from the kickstarter.com dept.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vidyagamer/vidya-books-the-book-as-reimagined-by-video-game-m

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HTML and Computer Science

Posted by Alfred2 on Sunday March 24, 2013 @04:25PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/03/html-and-computer-science.html

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When do we teach debugging

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @08:49PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/03/when-do-we-teach-debugging.html

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What Most Schools Don't Teach

Posted by Alfred2 on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:51AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/02/what-most-schools-dont-teach.html

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ICT Move to Computer Science More Than A Makeover

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:17PM
from the royalreports.com dept.

http://www.royalreports.com/2013/02/13/ict-move-to-computer-science-more-than-a-makeover/

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Computer Science - Part of English Baccalaureate

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:15PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/02/computer-science-part-of-english.html

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Do we need radical change in computer science education?

Posted by Alfred2 on Friday February 01, 2013 @07:18PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/02/do-we-need-radical-change-in-computer.html

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Industry and education - friends or foes

Posted by Alfred2 on Monday January 28, 2013 @05:38PM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/01/education-and-industryfriends-or-foes.html

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Avoid puzzles in code

Posted by Alfred2 on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @10:26AM
from the blog.acthompson.net dept.

http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/01/avoid-puzzles-in-code.html

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Re:We Need More Operating Systems on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:56PM (#4993943)

Good point!

Re:We Need More Operating Systems on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:55PM (#4993941)

have we really seen that much improvement in UI over the years? I wonder how much more we could see if the underlying OS was more supportive.