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What is the point of teaching coding and robotics to kids as young as six years old?
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 ...
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JavaFX and console-based interfaces, at the CS1 level
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. ...
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Students' confusion over C -structure members and structure variables
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 ...
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Is there any formal education for programming? Other than a CS degree?
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.
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Any website/textbook with problems+solutions in algorithms?
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?
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Can anyone recommend video lectures series for learning C? [closed]
The series should complete all the things from basics till advanced, initially I studied from YouTube channel called NewBoston and he skips many things in his lectures, I want the lectures to be ...
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A category to classify expressions, statements and blocks
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, ...
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Is there any series of videos in which all the main algorithms are discussed without going into things like time complexity and space complexity
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 ...
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Research question thesis
I am now in high school and have to do research. But I am not sure which research question to choose. I would like to talk about programming languages and therefore something within computer science. ...
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Want to be good at programming (C++) and then start learning game development, where should I start?
This semester in my university we learned C++ but I feel like I am not that much good at programming as much as I should be, and because I am also interested in game development so of course it will ...
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what would be a best approach to teach programming to non CS major?
I would like to design or develop program or game to teach non CS-major(engineering students) programming languages.My question is which one will be effective games or designing program?
If so any ...
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Hackerrank challenges for a programming course: hide code and show only what is relevant?
I'm trying to create a programming competition with personalized challenges for my class, using Hackerrank.
The thing is: I need to show only the minimum relevant code to solve the challenge, and ...
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What's the benefit of prohibiting the use of techniques/language constructs that have not been taught?
I teach as a private tutor and most of my students are prohibited to use techniques and/or language constructs that they haven't been taught!
There's a really broad variety of stuff that is ...
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Explain to someone that programming isn't just all “if”s and “else”s
I have a friend who, in his mind, has the wrong image about programming. Whenever I mention that programming is fun and that one can enjoy it very much especially if they like solving problems (both ...
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Why teach C using scanf without talking about command line arguments?
Most of the books I read give examples using printf and scanf. At some point the students know perfectly how to use these two ...
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How To develop One's Interest in Programming [closed]
My younger brother is having a hard time learning programming. This seems strange because he's very good at other computer related subjects. He isn't choosing any other field, so how can he develop ...
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How to teach so that your student doesn't feel stupid?
I'll start by admitting I'm not a teacher. But I am a professional computer programmer with over 20 years of experience and a BS in computer science. I'm also a dad. My daughter is 9 years old and is ...
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Why do computer science students learn electronics and electric circuit analysis? [duplicate]
I am a student of BS(CS), There are two courses that I don't understand why they are in our scheme? As we know that in CS we learn programming courses. Our concern is with programming languages like ...
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On studying Computer Science vs. Software Engineering to become a proficient coder
I’m mostly interested in the coding aspect of the CS and SE majors curricula. And I’m trying to decide between the two.
Each major has its pros and cons, and they prepare you in very different ways ...
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Through what basic programming language can beginners easily get the concept of programming? [duplicate]
I have some students that are from medical background and have no concept of programming. So, which language I should teach to them to make their basic concept of programming perfect?
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Why Computer Science students learn Digital Logic Design?
Is there any relationship between a computer science student and DLD course? I am studying BSE and we are studying DLD in my second semester. We've learned so many things about DLD but nothing is ...
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How can I improve other programming languages while having command on one language
As in computer science field we have to learn several programming languages like C++, Java, C#, python, php etc to complete our tasks and home assignments. However you are good in only one language. ...
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How to teach C++ language to beginners of (BSCS) students who have no any idea about it?
Some students come to CS field but they have no idea about any programming language. Either they will have the background of engineering or medical. But still they want to make CS their field. What ...
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How can programming skills be improved?
I often take help from online videos to improve my programming skills, but I am not successful. Videos help me in debugging my code, but I am not improving my programming. Is there any other way ...
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How to make project in java language, for students who doesn't know java?
In CS I have been taught other programming languages than java. Now in final year project they are demanding project in java. So is there an easy technique to learn java fast?
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how to motivate student that programming will give bright future to them?
some students in my class are leaving CS because programming is difficult and think that it will not give them bright future. how to motivate that students, that their interest is develop in ...
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What teaching techniques can be used, in teaching students from a medical background, to improve their programming?
Students from premedical background feel difficulty in programming. They have no basic concepts of programming, so they are unable to do good programming. I have searched but didn't get any solution ...
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Online Code Review Scripts Like Udacity
Please, can anyone recommend a simple online code review scripts/website similar to udacity. Instructor upload students code to the scripts, they add inline comments and can send the URL to the ...
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Students seem to be unable to use code to express their ideas. Is the teaching methodology improvable?
In my beginner experience as a teacher, the thing that's strucking me most is a sensation of my students' inability to express their (valid!) thoughts in code. Let me deepen it a bit.
I inherited a ...
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How to learn to program compiled languages efficiently when coming from an interpreted language?
I have experience with Python and now am learning C++, I am finding the lack of an interpreter or a repl to be a serious hinderance when learning the language, as well as the ability to type ...
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What is the best way to learn an object oriented programming language with framework, data structure and alogrithms?
At first I will say, I known some basics Python and Haskell. For now I decided to follow my programming road with Python. I have chosen a few issues and their learning path, hence I would like to know ...
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Why do educators not set an upper bound for the amount of times we're allowed to compile code?
First of all I'm sorry if the wording of my question is off so let me be more specific with what I mean;
At my University we have some platforms we can code on and hand in assignments. They usually ...
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Why some students think that programming is difficult and hard to learn, how I convince my students that programming is not difficult as they think?
Some students think that programming courses are tough and hard. I personally know some teachers who say to their students that programming is not their cup of tea. How much percent this thing is true ...
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Standardization of software [closed]
I am a CSE undergrad 1st yr student. I would like to know how software that companies use change from time to time. Can't they have a single standard software?
For example: in my school they ...
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Java or Kotlin for beginners (procedural programming knowledge is existing)?
We are teaching an "introduction to cs" course (bachelor level) and in the first half of a year students are learning the fundamental principles of procedural languages. We are using python 3 and C as ...
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Is it okay to teach C++ to my 7 year old brother?
I was thinking this for quite long, should i teach my little brother about programming in the age of 7-8? Because it will help him in the future in 12th standard and in university life. I want him to ...
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What is good age to start learning programming?
I am thinking of offering classes for people, maybe take 5 to 10 at the time. There would be 4 hours every Saturday, twice a month, for three months. So in total 6 such sessions. The language thought ...
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How can I remain a programmer and move into currently “hot” areas? [closed]
I'm a programmer, and I want to continue as such, but I want to explore new areas. I know the future is in the big data, and virtual reality (for example), but I don't know if they have less coding ...
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What is the difference between computer science and computer engineering in brief
For a beginner who wants to walk down the path of programming and developing and etc. What is a brief explanation of the differences of the two?
To clarify, Computer science is CS while software or ...
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Looking for puzzle/game programmes, so students can write solvers
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 ...
