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I was teach on mathematics that on real line small numbers are on left and big numbers are on right. Therefore, I think the comparison 0<1 is more natural than 1>0, and in general, x less than y is ...

Do you know of any website or other source with partial/complete solutions to problems from Algorithms book of Jeff Erickson?

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Nowadays, kids as young as six years are being taught coding through various tools such as MIT's Scratch. I wonder what is the point of teaching coding at such a tender age. They will go for a job ...

I'm a technical trainer (part instructional designer, part trainer) and I would like to know: Is there a respected certification for ID similar to the CompTIA CTT+ for trainers.

I am a non-cs graduate and would love to be a machine learning engineer. I have learned to code, and know the basics of Machine learning. Now I would like to know what "basics of CS" I should learn ...

What's the best approach to learning a library, framework etc.I find it overwhelming initially as to where should I start learn such things. Is it like you start taking up a course and then try to ...

For example, does it makes sense to write tutorial called Best Intellij shortcuts. You can already find so many shortcuts online in many places. If the answer is "...

Is there any good source/textbook with notes about db indexing with examples?

I'm running into some annoying technical problems in trying to incorporate JavaFX into my CS1 class, mainly arising from the constraints of avoiding/minimizing material they haven't yet learned. ...

Every year I focus on one of my courses to overhaul a bit. Partly because I'm supposed to have professional goals, and this is one that's pretty easy to admin to understand. But I also get bored ...

I've tried googling for this but I'm not sure I'm searching for the correct terms. Is anyone aware of any research on the differences between teaching novice software developers how to write code and ...

I was reading this article “Ten quick tips for teaching programming” by Neil C. C. Brown and Greg Wilson at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5886386/ It had many useful suggestions one of ...

Next semester I will be TAing a computer organization/assembly language course. I will be full-fledgedly (co-)teaching the lab. The first lab will take place before the first lecture, so me and the ...

I'm trying to set up a remote cloud Linux server with multiple logins for a class in Linux basics, BASH and C programming. We want our students to be forced to work exclusively in the shell to improve ...

A younger friend of mine, a high school student I have been encouraging to take his Computer Studies class seriously, and possibly go for CS in tertiary education, brought this problem to me. He was ...

I've been mulling this over for several hours, and have looked at a tangentially related question here. That question was about making a task more challenging for a "more confident" learner. I have ...

I'm about to start teaching a class of 10 people. I do it for free, and I search after a platform for home assignment. That platform should be: ...

I am trying to make studying computer science interesting for freshmen students. This will help them apply what is taught in the class to real life projects. My intention is to divide the class into ...

What will be a simple analogy to use in teaching non-CS people the concept of interrupt as part of OS topic?

I am planning a free JavaScript online video series, the first chapter covers the Javascript history and its capabilities. Following is a transcript of the video. I would like it to be reviewed by ...

Before I ask my question, some background may be apposite to provide context. Please indulge me. At the institute I teach, our Intro to Programming. It involves a coverage of C language. We believe C ...

For example, words like "method," "puts," and "object" do not have as much linguistic markedness as "comparator," "eff-gets," and even "function" (because context alone at the very least conjures up ...

I was a college student majoring in computer engineering, but dropped out because of several issues (social situation, interest, etc). I always wanted to study computer science, but didn't do it ...

The book should be easy to read, or at least average. The level for reading such a book is the MATH and CS school curriculum. It should also be expanded on topics related to CS, and also be narrated ...

Are there any universities that give you a Bachelor's in programming? I am aware of Computer Science BSc, but it's a little too broad in scope.

I know that most computer science students learn things like they are assumed some basic knowledge of programming and they are learning gradually more accurate reasoning and ways to produce more ...

I'm trying to find an online source or textbook with problems+solutions for problems in dynamic programming, number theory, graph theory, greedy algorithms, etc. Do you know of any?

In my experience, as a general observer of the world around me, and as someone who teaches some really simple basics in python to non-IT students, it does seem to me that general computer literacy (of ...

The series should complete all the things from basics till advanced, initially I studied from YouTube channel called NewBoston and he skips many things in his lectures, I want the lectures to be ...

I'm preparing a class on the modified BNF notation that python uses. I.e., Each rule begins with a name (which is the name defined by the rule) and ::=. A vertical bar (...

I was teaching an intro to Programming class, full of social scientists. After explaining that the basic building blocks of a program are called tokens, I took them through Keywords, Identifiers, ...

The course should be discussed in c language. I am presently learning basic computer programming through a book and while doing the questions from the book from a chapter say array, I found out most ...

I am now in high school and have to do research. But I am not sure which research question to choose. I would like to talk about programming languages and therefore something within computer science. ...

I will teach algorithms for 4 days for some students. It will be their first course in computer science before learning coding with Java. My fear is to bore them as I was bored at the university :( ...

This semester in my university we learned C++ but I feel like I am not that much good at programming as much as I should be, and because I am also interested in game development so of course it will ...

I've been recently helping someone with their beginners Python programming course at their university (though I don't think the specific language is particularly important). At times I'm frustrated, ...

I use repl.it, and one problem i note, is that each new test case has to be added by many gui-web clicks. it is both slow and annoying, and makes it harder to : 1) send to other teacher to review the ...

Somebody wants to develop applications for his cell phone in Java. He does not know programming and he does not know Java. Should he start learning Java on his cell phone or would he better off ...

Already last year I encountered the great http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ and it was much needed fresh air (while I was suffocating in my provided "textbooks": cobbled collections of ...

I teach an intro to programming course which covers mostly the basics (data types, control flows, functions, arrays, pointers, singly linked lists, circular linked lists, doubly linked lists, without ...

Does it make sense to introduce methods even before objects? What we are attempting to do is to get students out of the "everything in main()" mode as soon as possible. Suppose one starts out with a ...

I wondered what attempts were made to use tag(s) with programming exercises so that anyone can search / find (etc.) exercises just like books in a library. For example (in user story format): As a ...

I would like to design or develop program or game to teach non CS-major(engineering students) programming languages.My question is which one will be effective games or designing program? If so any ...

I'm trying to create a programming competition with personalized challenges for my class, using Hackerrank. The thing is: I need to show only the minimum relevant code to solve the challenge, and ...

I teach as a private tutor and most of my students are prohibited to use techniques and/or language constructs that they haven't been taught! There's a really broad variety of stuff that is ...

I'm taking a course on data structures and algorithms and it follows the book Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (ISBN-10: 9780262033848) by Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein, Ronald Rivest, ...

Cloud Foundry open sourced their curriculum to train students on how to use it. Are there any other open source courses out there or organizations who collects training that is open sourced? To ...

My colleague and I are considering bringing Greenfoot into our AP classes this year, and while Interfaces have been removed from the AP subset, we will continue to teach them. Greenfoot itself seems ...

I want to practice my problem-solving skills that involve the usage of a tree data structure (e.g. Binary Search Tree, Heap, <...