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Is there any textbook you would recommend as appropriate for preparing a Web Programming college course? I would prefer a book that comes with sets of exercises, practice, code examples, etc. Any help ...

I want to create a graphical overview (similar to a business process model) with information about all the services a company uses. Services like: e-mail marketing software, back-end technologies, ...

I grew up using an Apple IIe computer and I liked several things about it: It had no Internet access It had cool creative apps like Print Shop that I used to make stories and pamphlets It had Turtle ...

What are the popular books for teaching CS in high schools in the USA? The programming language doesn't matter. I'm asking because I'm looking for more exercises to give to my students. I am a CS ...

Here is a question that was asked in the GATE CS examination. It asks to find the number of bits required to color the pages to remove the problem of aliasing in VIPT caches. My peers out there ...

Amortized analysis is often taught in algorithms classes, with the different methods (aggregate, accounting, potential). It is very important when discussing some data structures and their use in ...

Often, I find it useful to teach some Python to students. In-person classes are easy in this regard, I can just go to colab.research.google.com and show them the concepts there. (It requires no ...

I'm looking at ways to improve assignments and reduce the amount of grading. Previously, there were two in-person lab classes with 15-20 students each week. Since Covid, there is now one online lab ...

I am wondering about from where do I need to consult the upper said topics in a good depth in order to solve the questions intuitively. Please help me out in this regard. Please provide some video ...

What could be good resources to teach Natural language Processing to Undergraduate students? I am using python as medium.

I'm looking for a multiple-choice assessment to determine the efficacy of an introductory CS program. Preferably validated with some research and free to use but both of those requirements are ...

As we know that MS excel plays an important part in the life of programmers, managers, scientists, engineers, statisticians, etc. Shall we add a comprehensive course in excel for our high school ...

What can be real-world examples to teach the difference between null and zero to high school students of computer science?

While teaching the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) topic in the ML/AI class, a question I often encounter is, "If we have a feedback/supervised learning [for Discriminator], then how come ...

I am a Faculty Teacher of Computer Science and am in my NQT year. I am having been asked to re-apply for my job to be a permanent teacher at the school and have my interview next Tuesday. The school ...

What are some free online AI/ML demos for grade 8-10 students? I am a high school teacher, and I am exploring apps and games which will help students understand and appreciate the world of Artificial ...

One of the popular algorithm design techniques is the Greedy Algorithm. Do we have real-world examples of Greedy Algorithm which we can teach Undergraduate students? I know the famous Djikstra's ...

I want my students (equivalent first-year college students) to work on algorithmic paradigms during a 2 hours practical programming session in OCaml. I chose the subset sum problem since it can ...

I am a Ph.D. student in Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). If I want to publish a survey paper, can I send that to a conference instead of a journal? Is that allowed? I am asking this because the ...

Is anyone aware of any published papers or ongoing studies that research the integration of S.O. For Teams into C.S. education? There's a related post about this titled "Enterprise Stack Overflow ...

I'm working with middle school teachers who are teaching a CS class with middle schoolers. The students have a wide range of programming skills, and for some it would be beneficial to offer them an ...

At SigCSE this year a session participant said, roughly, "research shows that there is no correlation between 'early skill' is CS and a student's ultimate success in the field." ...

On Stack Overflow this question would be dismissed as "opinion based." But my first impression (after having spent half an hour on this exchange) is that the norms seem to differ a bit here....

It is a well-known fact that we have a shortage of COBOL programmers. Why we do not re-introduce COBOL in our curriculum for the Undergraduate and Graduate Students? I know some schools are teaching ...

A few years ago I visited a university (very likely an US university) lecture website that teaches perhaps file system or version control system (I'm really unsure here), which gradually lead students ...

How to teach decorators to Undergrad students? I mean how make the concept crystal clear? Sometimes it becomes complex as : "functions passing another functions in argument, adding new ...

I'm exploring options for students to work on open source projects for academic credit. The Apache Software Foundation run a Mentoring Programme, and also facilitate participating in the Mentoring ...

As the question suggests, is it a good idea to teach Data Structure course in Python. Or what be any good rationale for teaching Data Structure course in Python and not in C++.

Is there any recommendation on an online platform that teaches and allows practicing object-oriented programming (OOP) in Python? I am familiar with Hackerrank and HackerEarth, however, they do not ...

These days everybody is learning Python. I remember when we first started programming we were taught C Language. As a teacher which language should be taught first these days, C Language or Python?

I want to learn Go Language as it is popular these days. I tried some demo programs on https://play.golang.org/. Do we have some good resources to learn Golang? It looks pretty similar to C, C++ in ...

Wikipedia shows that in 1886 John Milton Gregory outlined his "The Seven Laws of Teaching"; asserting that a teacher should: Know thoroughly and familiarly the lesson you wish to teach; ...

I am a fresh Ph.D. student in information science. I know some python, C, Cobol, etc. I know some sites to learn SQL for data science interviews. Can anybody tell me any resource available for data ...

I taught Theory of Computation last Fall and I believe it would be more interesting for students to add some coding implementations. Are you aware of any online course or textbooks in which Haskell (...

I am currently following the red dragon book: But most of the time, I have difficulty understanding the kinds of stuff in the book. Though the content is fine, and I end up asking questions on cs....

I don't remember that I saw sources section on Udemy tutorials or YouTube videos, whether they are a course or not. Even, on books such as, https://www.unf.edu/~wkloster/2220/ppts/...

I am having some difficulties to find free access documentation, lecture notes, scientific papers, or books, on a course I have to give. Course topic is "Services-centered design". Course ...

I would like to make animation of algorithms in order for students to see the flow of an algorithm in a visual way. Like an alternative to https://visualgo.net/en I want to make custom animations like ...

Not long ago I had asked this question. Sipser is a good book and the lectures by Harry Porter using Sipser text is awesome. But the thing is that is there any lecture series using Peter Linz's text ? ...

I'm gathering my wits to create a course that will focus a great deal on OO programming patterns (things like singleton, flyweight, command, etc, etc.) I do not have a lot of background in this topic ...

I am asking this question on behalf of my brother. He is taking his first programming class. So far he has just learned the basics (if-then statements, for loops, while loops, etc.) The class is using ...

I'm a high school student who has learned Java with the AP Computer Science A curriculum at school. My CS class used the University of Washington's Practice-it site for practicing Java. I was ...

I'm using snap! in my high school computer science class (11th grade, ~16 years old) and I'd like to reduce the features (~blocks) that snap! provides by default. Reasons: Simplify the interface Many ...

.NET expression trees can be used to write self-modifying compiled programs -- because it is possible to construct and compile a method at runtime, it is also possible for a method to rewrite its own ...

I am interested in learning Compiler Design , and from many resources I came to know that "The Dragon Book" is a good textbook. (Below are the two editions of the said textbook. [Red Dragon ...

I am tutoring a student in GCSE level computing science- the OCR exams specifically. I also tutor A level as well as the Scottish equivalent. My other students all need to know SQL for their courses, ...

Does anyone know what topics I should start studying to form a foundation in PHP ? Loops, outputting data, manipulating a database etc. ? Edit: I want to start using PHP to create a social site. ...

I've been interested in becoming a computer science/programming educator for a while now, and I have a real passion for it. I've taught a few people to code through sites like Khan Academy by ...

CSS diner is a game for learning CSS selectors. But it goes "into the woods" relatively quickly, focusing more on breath of selectors than on mastery of fundamentals Can it be productively ...

I have had good results, and happy students, using "CSS diner" to teach CSS selectors (I will share more in another question). And one of my students asked me if there is a similar game for ...