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Have a conversation with a "clever bot". Great way to introduce AI.

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The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. The Finch is made to easily integrate into high school and college CS courses. Institutions piloting the Finch have shown improved retention and year-over-year enrollment growth in their CS1 courses.

The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. The Finch is made to easily integrate into high school and college CS courses. Institutions piloting the Finch have shown improved retention and year-over-year enrollment growth in their CS1 courses.

Computer viruses are programs which are created with the sole intent of disrupting the operation of a computer. These computer viruses are usually placed into computers without the permission or knowledge of the person who owns the computer.

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program with it, even in a rudimentary way. Those days are gone

At the heart of the hash table algorithm is a simple array of items; this is often simply called the hash table. Hash table algorithms calculate an index from the data item's key and use this index to place the data into the array.

In computer science, linear search or sequential search is a method for finding a particular value in a list, that consists of checking every one of its elements, one at a time and in sequence, until the desired one is found.

In computer science, a binary search or half-interval search algorithm locates the position of an item in a sorted array

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NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things: - a powerful N-dimensional array object- sophisticated (broadcasting) functions- tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code- useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.

Modkit is an in-browser graphical programming environment for microcontrollers. 

This recent story is a good example of impact and dangers of social media websites and "free" email services like Gmail. The impact and consequences for this case are also clearly explained (up to 121 years in jail is significant !!).

Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts. 

Survey of top programming languages