ACSE Discussion

Can you crack this code?

From Sand to Processor or How a CPU is made It is hard to believe, but a modern processor is the most complex finished product in the world. Here comes a question: What is so complex in this piece of metal?

Show students this if they complain that JavaScript isn't a real programming language.

Just for fun!

Welcome to learnpython.org's interactive Python tutorial. Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, this website is intended for everyone who wishes to learn the Python programming language. Just click on the chapter you wish to begin from, and follow the instructions. Good luck!

EVERY THING U NEED TO START UP ON HACKING!!! Must read

All the tutorials listed here are written in Java™. You can find many other useful tutorials on developerWorks.

IBM this week announced a cloud-based collaborative software development tool that's being offered free to students now for academic use only but is expected to become a commercial service at some point in the future.

History of Computing - Microsoft vs Apple

Personal blog post about "programmer" versus the other terms used - software engineer, etc.

Infographic comparing humans to computers.

I frequently see a problem when people (especially techies) try to teach programming to someone (especially non-techies). Many programming tutorials begin with basic programming principles: variables, loops, data types. This is both an obvious way to teach programming and almost certainly a wrong way to teach programming. It's wrong because nobody wants to learn how to program

Good find, Doug. His book is excellent: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

Internet Observatory is a free service that monitors global traffic 24 hours a day in several regions of the world. Unlike ipoque's Internet studies that have been a reliable source for Internet traffic statistics ever since they were first published in 2006, Internet Observatory is not jus a snapshot of Internet traffic patterns during a certain time period. It is traffic statistics in real-time. But see yourself.

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CODING BY LOSING YOURSELF IN THESE SIMPLE-BUT-DEVILISH PUZZLES.

Anyone who has used Microsoft Excel since 1993 has likely dabbled at least once with VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, scripting: That's the year Excel 5.0 arrived with VBA support. The feature allows users to create automated tasks and functions in the spreadsheet application, extending the software's potential.

Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?

Doug, thank you for the link to the article. I just spent a few days in Boston with CS Educators at the App Inventor Summit and the issues discussed in this article now make more sense to me. The CS Principles project (csprinciples.org) looks like a huge step in the right direction. It "could" become the foundation of introductory CS courses in high school (AP) and in post-secondary. They have run 2 years of pilot courses and it looks promising. The next generation AP exam will likely be language agnostic - designs will likely be expressed in pseudocode and the course really engages with students (not just programming).

"EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in the Python programming language."

Everyone can become a millionaire selling just one app in the Apple App Store, but it takes a few steps!

A detailed discussion of issues around "time" in Java. I think this helps shows students the focus of computer science, as contrasted with programming.

If your PC's been humming along under your desk for more than a year or two, I've got news for you: Chances are inside that case, half a dozen dust bunnies are dancing around your hard drive, leeching onto your CPU fan and fluttering about your motherboard having a grand old time. This is not good.