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I'm looking for effective strategies and projects for introducing non-linear data structures to students. I currently teach linked lists, stacks, and then introduce binary trees. A lot of students ...

One benefit of having a class provide a static factory method rather than public constructors is the method can return an instance of a subclass. For example, if the class ...

What are the reasons that AP Computer Science A is using Java as its programming language? For example, if I compare C++ to Java, I would think C++ would be better for AP Computer Science A in ...

In Hopcroft-Motwani-Ullman there are exercises on this topic. What is another good reference (textbook/website) for fractional/quotient regular languages, possibly with examples?

I'm a freelance tutor working with high school students, giving them programming assignments in languages like Python, Java, C++, and others. In recent months I've seen the value of using English - ...

I am working for a company, and a target for this year is to increase the level of CS knowledge among the staff. The company does mostly engineering stuff so the people come from an engineering ...

I'm a freelance computer science tutor with junior high and high school students (working outside of school - I give them assignments. Mostly my assignments are problems we find online, such as ...

I am involved in a website project, where main implementation language is PHP. Main development is done by two full-time developers, who lack a lot of understanding about program architecture and ...

I teach a computer science course and I like to share sample solutions to assignments after the assignment is due. I think it helps students learn to see a solution sheet with sample solutions and ...

I'm teaching an Algorithms class (junior/senior level), and we've just proved the validity of the Master Theorem. I'd like some good questions on it, both for homeworks and for exam questions. Problem ...

I have been working with the ACM Curriculum Guidelines for proposing courses and topics related to CS in the Faculty that I am currently working on. The core document that we have been using was the ...

People have different modalities in their imaginings. Some imagine things visually, some spatially, some by touch, some by smell, and some other ways. What if a student claims to not have the ability ...

A trace table problem is code that you follow along by hand and fill out variable values at each line. For example. ...

I'm looking for a text for a course in object oriented programming. Most of the students will have done some programming courses in the past, but the background of the students is varied so the ...

I am an undergrad going into my junior year this semester. I really wanted to explore algorithmic game theory, as my university has some excellent professors in that field. However, as my undergrad is ...

I have a background of 20+ years professional coding, but my heart is really in teaching. About three years ago, I started tutoring ages grade 6 through adult in coding topics. introduction to coding ...

Is anyone aware of freely available KANBAN materials that can help students (and myself!) reinforce the key concepts? I understand that the main concepts are not actually that complicated. Ideally, ...

I am looking for advice for September with a new format for our daily schedules for high school CS. As part of my board's grade 9-12 return to school plan, students will be in one of 3 cohorts of a ...

I would like to teach my software engineering students git and to introduce key ideas in a presentation. Creating slides from scratch does not seem like a good use ...

I'd like to move to mastery-based grading and have drafted a set of rubrics for my undergraduate computer architecture class. I am having trouble with the one for computer arithmetic, which includes ...

In the past students have submitted hardcopy of the programs and output for grading (electronic version was also supplied if I wanted to run the programs). I always annotated and graded the source ...

I'm collecting a list of possible items for grading rubric for a coding assignment. Below is a start. Is this complete, or am I missing important criteria? I welcome other ideas. Effectiveness Runs ...

I've taught AP CSP for a few years and am interested in teaching CS50 AP, but I'm having trouble getting started. The links in the getting started guide at https://cs50.harvard.edu/ap/2020/ aren't ...

For a beginner Is it right to use the concept of hotel room and passenger as an analogy to explain the concept of variable?

Is there any Jackson based IDE for programming? I mean, an IDE in which you can place the sentences in sequence from left to right.

I am student from CS background and I have Operating Systems in my upcoming semester. A simple search around the internet revealed that that Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz and Galvin is ...

I hope I'm addressing the right community. I was redirected here from CS.SE. For a project for my students, I need to find some weighted graphs (oriented or not) to benchmark their algorithms (...

I would like to start volunteering with kids and young teengers in my community by introducing them to programming. I thought teaching them the basics of python would be a good start. I have some ...

JUnit seems to work well for unit tests, but I'm not interested in unit tests, I want to test and entire command line application as a black box. I have created a text-based adventure game project for ...

I have created a PowerPoint presentation and I want to create a video of me presenting it. I'm looking for a software to make my life easier. The features I'm looking for are: Can record a 25-minute ...

I was commissioned to prepare an advanced course on Computer Networks with updated topics. My students have already passed the Computer Networking course using A. S. Tanenbaum's book. They gave enough ...

Out of my own interest, I have been self-learning Java over the past few months. I decided I should take this to a greater advantage, so I have been considering taking the OCP (Oracle Certified ...

I'm still student in university, and I need 2 years to graduate, but the thing is I still don't know anything about computer science other than problem solving, C++/Python OOP and DataStructure; I ...

I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. but faced some issues with the Fibonacci Heap section, especially the intuitive working of the charging and discharging of the ...

In our Bachelor curriculum the course Operating Systems and Computer Networks (5 CP) is designated to be taken in the second semester. Currently it uses C, and while I'm personally very fond of C, it ...

I need a set of problems for beginner Haskell course represented as a problem book or workbook. Can you help me find any to give them as a homework on weekly basis? I was able to find only one book in ...

I study mathematics and sometimes I have difficulties to find proofs or counterexamples to some problems. Is it useful to learn programming to find counterexamples or proofs? How useful it is for ...

Now for a student who is trying to master the subject of "Compiler Design" which book should he/she follow (written by Aho, Ullman)? 1) Principles of Compiler Design By Aho Ullman (1977) I ...

Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman have written The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling. Volume 1 Parsing 1972 and Volume 2 Compiling 1973 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools 2ed ...

I am a CS undergraduate student, strictly speaking I am fond of studying theoretical CS subjects, the corresponding books just attract me. Now in theoretical CS we probably have algorithm design and ...

Java is updating on a regular basis and it being so the corresponding text books to study Java also changes. Now I do not know why the edition "Java 2: The Complete Reference" by Herbert ...

I am currently in third year of my Computer Science UG degree. I wanted to know what are the best certifications for a data scientist. Found that Data Science Council of America (DASCA) is the most ...

I am a student from CS background. I am currently going through "Introduction to Algorithms" By Cormen et. al. $\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad$ It is indeed a ...

I'm planning to design an introductory course to CS and programming for kids of 8-12 grade and see that we have Scratch for catching an eye in the beginning and getting instant result on place. But I ...

In short: Does learning how to make software, have its place inside universities? If so which parts of it? I was studying in a university in Russia. I don't want to name its name and location. I ...

I think the https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html assumes you know too much. It's written in an unfamiliar language to me, OCaml, and they assume you know about lexers, parsers, AST. Any thorough ...

I want to do self-study for Computer Architecture and I wish I could get hold of a detailed video lecture series that goes hand in hand with the classic text "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative ...

Whenever I searched for "best book for computer architecture" in google, the first result to come up was this book "Computer Architecture : A quantitative approach"(3rd Edition) by Henessy and ...

I would like to know if there are some tools to teach the following topics in a programming paradigms course: Demonstration of lexical rules Demonstration of grammar rules, such as tree parsers of ...

I am an undergraduate student, and I have an idea which I want to explore and write a research paper on. But I am totally new to this. I don't have good CS community at my place. So I can only look ...