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I have to teach CT to Class 5 kids. To explain the concept, I am trying to explain to them how CT is beneficial in today's world. The way I learn and appreciate things is by comparison. So I would ...

I may tutor a student who just started learning "school C", by which I mean that strange kind of C seen only on school books (and that in my opinion "cripples the mind", so to say, but I digress). I ...

Today I wanted implement a deep learning model in openvino.So I went to the page here and started reading.After starting the reading,I struggle to understand things and started to deviate a lot from ...

While I'm sure that the comp-sci 101 mistake of having a triple nested loop with two recursive calls is sure to be cured by a decent comp-org class, it can have the unintended side-effect of turning ...

How should computer science, software engineering or ICT be integrated into the Waldorf curriculum? Steiner-Waldorf education derives from the anthroposophical philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, and ...

My students currently submit their code in Bitbucket and create a pull request. Bitbucket has a code review tool that allows me to create comments tied to specific lines in the code. I really like ...

I apologize; I know this question is sort of open-ended and if I could think of a way to make it more specific, I would. What would you consider a piece of CS so fundamental that it would be ...

As they say, you don't get a second chance to make a good first impression. Are you aware of any notes/slides appropriate for a first lecture in databases?

I will be teaching a course to college students in their 3rd year in college study. So far, they have taken only one programming course in MATLAB. We have a package, i.e., is a set of functions, ...

Is there any guidelines how to make sure that code you write won't be copyrighted anywhere? I meet sometimes situations where I write code that does some particular small thing but there is a similar ...

Consider the following two competing incentives in teaching a first Intro to CS course for CS majors. In my case, the course must use C++ -- that's a given. The first incentive is that the course ...

Students are very happy when they see some real applications of the theory. Any suggestions for interesting examples of knapsack problems?

Background I have a friend who loves applied math and physics, but hates programming. She is learning python right now because she thinks it's helpful in getting a math-related job, and her mom ...

Recently Python and Java have started to be the de facto standard for teaching CS1/2. This means that students arrive in courses like Embedded Systems, Operating Systems or High Performance Computing ...

I found a puzzling site where one puzzle was to find a string whose MD5-hash is given. Is such a puzzles good for learning? I mean, I believe that hash might be cracked by using enough computing ...

I am teaching middle school kids (aged 11-13) some basic JavaScript and want to get some "professional" opinions. I am introducing JavaScript with a simple function with a variable, a prompt, if/else,...

I'm going to do a course for my entire University, this means students that are in the last year and also in the first year. What can I do so what I teach isn't too hard to understand for the first ...

What is the most traditional or meaningful order for learning formal languages, automata, compilers and parsing, if there's one at all? Would students benefit from a parallel course in formal ...

I've asked this myself sometimes already. A lot of knowledgeable developers are using Stackoverflow to give advice and help solving other peoples problems - for free. Giving back your own knowledge ...

Do you know any textbook with problems+solutions to support teaching of linear programming and reductions? In particular for: standard and slack forms, formulation of problems as linear programs, ...

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?

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 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 ...

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 ...