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Ask HN: How would you evolve modern computer science curriculum?
20 points by bayonetz 12y ago|24 comments
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by bayonetz 12y ago
The power that attorneys' hold is reminiscent of the power early catholic priests held when they knew how to read and everyone else was illiterate...can you imagine? I, like most normal people, am basically legal-illiterate. Absolute
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by bayonetz 12y ago
Pascal! First mention I've seen on this thread.
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by bayonetz 12y ago
I told my friend at work about this thread. He isn't on here so I am ghost posting for him for fun and perspective. He did his undergrad in CS at UCLA '78-'82. Intro to Programming => PL/1 Problem Solving using Compu
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by bayonetz 12y ago
I'm teaching an intro class for 5th-7th graders that already have some experience with Scratch (visual block based programming). I think Processing, especially in its static mode, does a good job at helping make the leap to actual pro
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by bayonetz 12y ago
Looks like you received more variety than most of the other commenters.
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by bayonetz 12y ago
OP here, all my C courses had the extra requirement that they compile under GCC on a Solaris box; not for our education but for the prof's benefit of using an automated "turnin" program for grading. Thank god though, I had o
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Ask HN: What programming languages are used in CS courses these days?
31 points by bayonetz 12y ago|66 comments
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by bayonetz 12y ago
Perhaps but there are so many more actually fun "games" than testing your code that you are again fighting natural incentives - people will pick the most fun game when given the choice of many, yes?
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by bayonetz 12y ago
Agree but then of course who will put up the bonus money? Could be a great philanthropic outreach opportunity for Google or other big company.
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by bayonetz 12y ago
It's funny, I just assume open source security oriented development would follow far more rigorous testing and verification than it apparently does. I guess it's no different from every other kind of development - testing and ver
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I agree that syntax highlighters are wrong...except when they are right! There are times when you want the comments to recede into the background, such as when you are actively creating some new code and aren't reading your own comment
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by bayonetz 13y ago
A simple nuclear trick for LvL two and on: http://pastebin.com/c7vqzrU3
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by bayonetz 13y ago
I'd like a regular search page to use first for query development and then once I'd figured out my queries, an API would be good for automation. Maybe make the search page free and charge for the API? Cost-wise for the API, the
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by bayonetz 13y ago
God yes! I am tired of writing scrapers and crawlers myself when most of the time, I'd like to just do some prototyping with a regex in a search box against the internets. This could seriously accelerate the prototyping loop. Tradi
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by bayonetz 13y ago
I've worked in a Dilbert mill or two where managers mistake movement for progress. The thing is, if you aren't ready to quit, then you must play the game. And by that I mean play some actual games. Like Call of Duty or Halo or