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Why do computer-science majors learn calculus?

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Should test cases be made available to students for assessed assignments?

27 votes

How important is learning Binary for first-year college students?

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How to prepare students for bias in industry

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How to deal with students that don't like CS?

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How to provide individual grades for group project work?

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How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?

10 votes

How can I show the value of best practices?

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How do you encourage students to take criticism of their code constructively?

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Why is the critical-section problem always presented with code in infinite loops?

8 votes

Does/should a CS education include information about responsible use of human subjects in research

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Is SICP appropriate for an advanced high school CS course?

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How to tell a student that s/he should enroll in a different program?

5 votes

What should be the difference between a university course and developer training?

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Avoiding difficulties when teaching with metaphors

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching Block-coding Languages Such As MIT's App Inventor?

4 votes

Differentiating Inclusive from Exclusive Or

4 votes

How to teach Stack Overflow more efficiently?

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Why don't more universities teach revision control?

4 votes

Simple Pointer Examples in C

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Book recommendations for rigorous CS books

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Cheating on labs

4 votes

Benefits of explaining low-level architecture in a programming class

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Best practices for letters of recommendation in CS

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How should floating point inaccuracies be explained and justified?

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Is there an online drag-and-drop interactive sort simulator?

3 votes

Basic OOP practice exercises for inheritance and polymorphism

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Lesson ideas for introducing macros in C

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My teacher said that java is pass-by-reference when the type is not a primitive

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Equivalent of PISA study for standardised assessment of skills on computational thinking and programming?