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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 ...

1. THE INFORMAL QUESTION THE BIG-PICTURE One way of wording the question is: What real-world source code could I provide students with such that: the source code files mainly describe a class the ...

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 ...

The question may be found in the following link. I have been asked in the comments to provide my question on this Stack Exchange site. Is there a word for mathematics/physics/data-analytics/…?

I'm trying to categorize university courses of the department of computer science and electronic engineering. Such courses may include: Data Analytics and Machine Learning Computer Science and ...

The course includes: Regular Languages, Context-Free Languages, Turing Machines, Decidability, Reductions, etc. Do you know of any collection of problems/solutions suitable for a senior course?

Do you know of any online resource with ideas/projects for an Algorithms and Data Structures course? Topics in the course include: basic data structures (array, list, stack, queue, priority queue, ...

A big part of understanding an idea deeply (such as a math theorem, for example) is being able to imagine a thought process which would lead one to invent or discover that idea. Michael Nielsen ...

I teach a course on C++ for 2nd year undergraduates in computer science. So far, the exams in my course contained mostly code-writing questions, such as "write a class that implements a binary tree ...

I teach an intro programming course in a social science department. My field is geographic information systems. The goal for the course is for the students to understand scripting in an interpreted ...

Do you know of any courses using Haskell to illustrate Computational Theory topics?

I am currently researching some good content/problems to teach my students. I am referring to Mensa's Book on Logical thinking, which has a good amount of puzzles for all age groups. Is there any ...

What would one suggest to learn web development? I was educated to mathematician and have done data-analysis. Now I was asked to do web pages, and I would like to practice that. However, it seems to ...

I need a detailed automata theory (or Theory of Computation) video lecture series to go hand in hand with the classic text books mentioned in this question The books are fine but I am having problem ...

I intend to lead a nephew through the exercises of sequence, selection and iteration via Python. I also intend to introduce hardware sensors for data collection. If there is a better choice (I ...

I'm looking for an application that I can compile live, in class to show the students that compilation takes time, but brings speed benefits in the end, whereas interpreted languages always take time, ...

I have been trying to think of an example of xor to connect with what students already know. I did some searches. But everything I found, seems to have ...

Like many of you, in the last weeks, I've been forced to move to distance teaching/learning. While our university has always suggested us to use Zoom, from the first moment, several students said that ...

I am teaching a second year programming course for adult students. It is an introduction to C++, with a chapter on Git. I'm not covering Makefiles and while I could find a bit of time to talk about ...

Team projects seem to run in to difficulties fairly often. One complaint is that some member doesn't actually do anything, causing dissension or the failure of the project altogether. Too often, ...

I mentor online (in assembly language and computer architecture) at codementor.io.  The way I work is to have a zoom meeting with a student to instruct them on what they are confused or stuck on. ...

I've attended a couple online classes and I'll be teaching my own in a short while. And what I noticed is that usually the lecturer has a lot of interruptions from people who ask them to repeat ...

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many colleges and universities have implemented policies to allow students to take classes pass/fail this semester. Students will now be asking their advisors ...

I am a retired college teacher, now trying to teach computing to middle school kids. One of the parts of the definition of "algorithm" is that it must be "effectively computable." I'm looking for an ...

I need to create tests on Blackboard and customize access time for different groups of students. Anyone knows how to do this?

I'd like to try teaching an online lesson to high school CS students on modeling the spread of a virus. Ideally it would be something that could be coded in a spreadsheet, Code.Org's Game Lab or App ...

Sorry if not a question about Computer Science / IT / digital literacy. However I am teaching these, and it is about use of IT (Communication Technology) in teaching. I have now started to teach ...

We've done pair programming for years with the rule of two kids, one screen, and the kids sitting next to each other. We have found this to be a tremendously valuable process. Now that all ...

If one has to teach a 15-week course titled "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" to the postgraduate students of Electronic Engineering, what topics should one teach? Assume the students ...

Today, university after university in the US announced moving to online classes. This is perhaps easier in CS than in, say, ceramics or dance, but it still presents unique challenges. Can anyone ...

The current situation with the spread of a serious disease worldwide has caused a number of universities and schools to move courses to an online model where students don't meet face to face in large ...

As you may know, schools in many parts of the world will remain closed for a long time due to the coronavirus outbreak. In Italy, the government has invited schools to provide remote teaching, and ...

I'm a retired college teacher. I've been asked to "teach coding" to a dozen very bright seventh-graders using the Micro:Bit kits the school has on hand. I have a total of seven contact hours ...

I am an assistant professor preparing a 5 lecture series 'introduction to programming'. The target audience are first year engineering undergrads - from a mix of mechanical, electrical, electronic, ...

I teach a course in C++. Often, students submit a homework assignment that works well in their computer (they send me a screenshot showing that it compiles and runs perfectly), but when I run the ...

I have a vague notion that I could create some sort of introductory activity for Objects. There would be worksheets ("programs") to get kids (high school, in this case) to physically go through the ...

I've seen many platforms that allow companies to interview prospective developers by means of coding challenges, but those are always paid. So I'm trying to find some tool where I can create my own ...

I am looking to get into a software engineer role and I need some fundamental knowledge of Computer Science Engineering concepts. Will David Milan's basic Computer Science course from Harvard, CS50x, ...

I am sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, but I would really like to know. I have finished a computer programming bootcamp and found I took to programming deeply. Some of my course mates ...

I am a mathematician who has done programming in Python, Java, and R. I would like to learn to make neural networks and artificial intelligence. Are there any good books for self learning AI for a ...

I will be tabling at a high school career fair and would like to have printed fliers about careers involving computer science. Does anyone know where I can find ones that are free (either to print or ...

I have a class of 25 students. We want to learn programming robots using a blockly-type programming language. I would prefer having a robot for every student or at least one per every two students. ...