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I'm interested both mathematics and computer science. I like math because one can formalize it rigorously and I have seen that many things can be defined by sets. Is there similar thing in computer ...

I'm currently learning SQL (specifically T-SQL) and focusing on searching databases, not building/editing them. This is pretty much the first language I'm learning, so I don't have a CS background to ...

I will be teaching AP Computer Science Principals this fall for the first time. I've decided to use the CS50 curriculum. (partially due to Curriculum choice for AP Computer Science Principles) Is ...

In my workplace, my team (working both on a ASP.Net MVC ecommerce and a C++ client) had a recent addition of two young members. One is a fresh graduate and the other worked as PHP programmer for some ...

I apologize if this isn't the right kind of forum to ask this question, but I've been feeling helpless. I'm in my 4th year in college as a CS major. However, I am horrible at programming (relative to ...

Both Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Yale are top schools. (I attended both; one as an undergraduate, one as a graduate student, neither as a CS major). Their curricula aren't all that different. ...

Every year for the past few years, I've been mentoring at Scratch Day, helping the kids with their projects during the course of the workshops. The problem? This takes place in my second language, ...

Background: I’m not entirely a CS educator, but I did run into a debate on whether programming contests are good for students. A lot of people around me have fun in programming contests. Usually, ...

I'm a web design teacher and I teach 9th graders (14 year olds) in the US. Currently the 9th grade curriculum in my HS programme teaches students CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Students can create buttons,...

I want to create a web development blog that I will teach there variety of subjects that usually people not talking about it, or there it not so much articles/tutorials about it. The title is ...

I have a class which is in a computer lab (each student has a computer). These are standard Windows computers. The computer lab is organized into rows, with students on either side of a row facing ...

There are so many resources on the internet for self-learning computer science, such as the MIT OCW courses. However, some of those courses are around 5 to 6 years old taught in 2012 or 2013. There ...

Would a student's overall CS education benefit by having such a skill, and if so why not make it a required prerequisite? An editor notes that there are three (at least) different ideas here that ...

I was playing some logic puzzles, and was thinking that they would be good for students to program solvers, that can be plugged in to the game logic. Some of the quantities to make them useful, in ...

Many are now familiar with GBoard, the Google / Android predictive Keyboard. I don't actually know how it works. Obviously it must gather usage data on the device where it is being used, but it ...

In a recent blog post Eugene Wallingford says that when teaching: I frequently pose a problem for them to work on for a few minutes before we look at a solution, or several candidates, as a group. ...

I want to learn about Computers and Electronics and presently don't hold any kind of degree in the same. My urge to learn is entirely driven by my interest and curiosity for these subjects. I will be ...

Can anyone suggest some good textbooks on optimization for MSc level? Books with more concrete applications and examples on real problems would be more appreciated. I am more interested in algorithm ...

I am reading this book published ten years ago and it says that chatbots can be very useful in helping students with course details and to break the ice. I am not familiar with chatbots, so I have ...

I have a question for educators, from the perspective of a TA. I'm happy to post my question elsewhere if it's not appropriate for this site. Homework problems in algorithms classes often involve ...

The GNU manpage (what you'll find on a Linux system) – but pretty much any Unix manpage – of chown (the command for changing the owning user and owning group in ...

This is a very objective question. I want to know what are the methods for teaching programing? I'll provide a parallel example to make this clearer in case this causes any confusion. I have ...

I am familiar with the concept of void and return methods in Java, and am teaching a course in JavaScript, programming Sphero robots. I think I have the gist of how to explain these concets, but am ...

I'm currently a trainer in a kind of "expert" domain: a web-programming backend framework. However, what I truly like is to help people regardless of their level, mostly online or at conferences. The ...

I'm going to be teaching a lesson about asymmetric cryptography to US high school students who have no background in Computer Science, specifically the way that public key cryptography is used while ...

When discussing Hash Functions and Hash Tables, collisions are brought up and how poor hash functions can lead to many collisions for a large input, and the techniques for resolving them such as ...

Recent questions deal with the problem of too many applicants to CS programs, both in High School and University. Yes, this is a problem when only a smaller number can be accommodated for reasons of ...

One question that children are often asked is, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" This really means, what employment they would like. This question needs an answer, definitely by the time one ...

I've been teaching programming to my 13-year old son for over a year now. I'm not satisfied with his progress. I think that one of the reasons is his attitude: He wants to learn programming (he said ...

I am a grade 11 student at school. I created and am running a programming club each lunch. We meet once a week (typically, sometimes I have to cancel since my club isn't important). We have 50 minutes ...

I enjoyed reading this explanation of blockchain at codeanalogies.com, which imagines a fictitious distributed grading system in a high school math class. The article made me wonder whether it would ...

This question got me thinking about cs1 and functional programming. Do there exist anywhere statistics on what portion of schools teach cs1 using a functional paradigm? I know that some schools do, ...

When programming we need to name things. I have been using turtle graphics in python, and was wondering if the names, chosen, for the commands, were making it more difficult for my pupils. Some of ...

We've recently gone through the process of selecting an intern from a local university to join our team for the summer. We are using F# and almost exclusively using functional programming techniques ...

I am to teach sums and asymptotics to first year CS undergraduates who have only high school math. I thought it would be attractive to follow chapter 14 of https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/...

For research reasons, in the last few days, I’ve been looking at several statistics on computer science programs in Portugal (but also in Europe and the US). One of the most interesting findings is ...

In my graduate programming languages course, each student is required to learn a different novel programming language during the course of the semester and give a presentation on it to the class at ...

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs occurs in 1976 (in Niklaus Wirth's book). In the past, we (teachers) may usually cite this equation to emphasize the importance of algorithms/data structures. ...

I'm a student in an undergraduate Computer Science program with several years of experience before coming to university. As I began working through the coursework here, a large problem stuck out to me....

Some use FP, some use OOP, some use procedure. It seems few universities start with logic programming, why?

When teaching Intro CS in Java, I sometimes tell students things that are not entirely true, such as that, unlike abstract classes, interfaces cannot contain any code. (For those of you unfamiliar ...

One of the trickier concepts that comes up in the realm of cryptography is the notion of zero-knowledge protocols (also referred to as zero-knowledge proofs). This is a way to verify an end-user's ...

I was recently asked to teach someone OOP and C++, to a relatively advanced level in the former and an intermediate level in the latter. After one half of a private lesson, it became clear that the ...

At our high school, our tech department has made many strides in the past decade. The courses and technology we offer are a matter of pride when showcasing our school. However, our department is small ...

I originally asked this over on Stack Overflow, but they suggested I look here instead: I'm currently teaching my students about the concept of inheritance (we're using Python 3) but am unable to ...

I typically have the same students two semesters in a row, for programming I (VB.NET) and programming II (C#). In our early, impressionable time together, I stress to these students (high-schoolers) ...

I have been teaching Operating Systems basics in a class and after Processes, Child Processes and Threads, we have managed to move to "Process Scheduling" Now, ironically, as we know that it is not ...

The question is simple and direct here: what objective criteria are helpful* in admitting students to AP CS courses? (By "helpful," I mean criteria that have some worth as indicator of future success ...

I'd like to introduce my students to Nodes and then require them to implement their own Linked Lists, Queues, and Stacks before showing them that their language (C#) provides implementations of these ...

Current middle school/high school teachers in my state who want to obtain an additional license to teach computer science (notably AP CSP/CS A) must pass the Praxis computer science test (5651). I'm ...