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I am a HS Computer Science Teacher in New Jersey.

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Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?
Oct 30, 2017
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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?
Jan 22, 2018
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Advances in CS appropriate for CS1 and CS2 made by female computer scientists
Jul 10, 2017
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How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself?
Feb 26, 2018
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What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?
Jan 9, 2018
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Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming
Aug 9, 2017
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What are healthy, productive ways to encourage students to progress to more advanced constructs as opposed to staying with the familiar?
Apr 10, 2018
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Should CS students be doing their tests on paper?
Jun 13, 2017
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What controversies in computer science education exist today?
Dec 15, 2021
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If a program does not compile, should it get a mark of zero?
May 12, 2022
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Can we enable math notation?
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Retagging: Coding style? Conventions? Practices?
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How does the Y combinator exemplify "Lambda calculus inconsistency"?
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Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes
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Talking to the parents of an adult autistic student
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How do I effectively get people to look past my age when considering my abilities, if they know how old I am?
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How to support a friend with an 'insignificant' problem?