ACSE Discussion

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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.

If this article is of interest to you, you might be a computer scientist!

Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages! It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the basic concepts of programming.

These books deal with Computer programming: the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. A program's source code is written in a programming language.

Use our online generator to create your own QR codes. Select the type of the code, then press "create code" button. Once you do that you can save it (as GIF or PDF) for further use. Registered users have also option to store codes in folders, manage and edit them.

An afterschool program in DC that has been using App Inventor since October 2010.  The youngest student is 8 and the oldest is 17.

A visual programming language for beginners. 

Do you need resources to introduce your high school students to the field of computer science? Would you like to more fully integrate principles of computing and computational thinking into your classroom? The University of Michigan's CS4HS workshop is designed to support the activities of computer science teachers and to establish a dialog about the focus and requirements of collegiate CS programs, so that high school students can be better prepared for a future in computer science.

A bitly bundle of, in my opinion, key articles to use with students in ICS on the issue of privacy - via issue of cell phones tracking your movements!

There is a lot of "process" that goes into designing for mobile devices, but sometimes you just wanna jump in and get your hands dirty! This post is designed to give you the tools you'll need and the basic design and technical requirements to get you up and running quickly.

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems. The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is to provide a platform for the inquiring mind to delve into unfamiliar areas and learn new concepts in a fun and recreational context.

Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone platform using the iPhone SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multitouch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller pattern, memory management, Objective-C programming language. iPhone APIs and tools including Xcode, Interface Builder and Instruments on Mac OS X.

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list. Requirements Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux, or Mac OS X 10.5+. Note that resulting USB drives are bootable only on PCs (not on Macs). Internet access for downloading a distro to install, or a pre-downloaded ISO file

Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like computer programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming. Let's look at which channels made the cut.

In other words, C++ is a strong and important language, and will continue to be even in a browser dominated landscape. Here are a few resources for leaning C++, and its predecessor C.

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.

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.