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by saundby 16y ago
The comments catch what Groupon missed. Worth more than the blog entry itself.
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Coding Forms for Hand-Made Programs (catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
Good comments, thanks! I take on "new" on day 2, when I cover variables. And static gets revisited several times. I have to be brief with the first class, the main point is that it serves a function, it's not just noise. When we build a cla
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by saundby 16y ago
Yeah, I agree my description of static needs to be changed on that page. It's not what I use in class. I teach static from a general standpoint of stating belonging to the class rather than an object of that class. For didactic purposes, so
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by saundby 16y ago
I show HN and YC to my middle school students and tell them a little about it. I just want them to see it. They'd rather spend time reading snopes if that makes you feel any better. ;) The only time I've heard of a middle school kid going b
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by saundby 16y ago
I use the Karel J Robot examples with Greenfoot in my middle school classes once we start using Greenfoot. It's a great tool.
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by saundby 16y ago
I'm not stupid either, and I can tell a response that's intended to please me from one that's sincere. My students are encouraged to tell me when I'm boring them and when something I'm doing in class just plain sucks. You're missing the poi
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by saundby 16y ago
You're inferring a lot. And overestimating what can be covered in a single period in a room full of 12-14 year old kids, no matter what language is used. Part of why the class takes so long to cover a HelloWorld program is that I explain ea
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My Students Laugh, HaHa, Laugh, at the HN Naysayers ;)(catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
20 points by saundby 16y ago|23 comments
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AMD's Winter Update: Athlon II X3 455, Phenom II X2 565 and Phenom II X6 1100T(anandtech.com)
2 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
I reduce window width to give a comfortable column with where the document allows, then use scrolling as a place-marker. I'm a line or two down from the top of what's displayed. I'll also cut and paste into a plain text editor, adjust font,
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by saundby 16y ago
Others missed but useful for beginners: BlueJ (Java), Arachnophilia (HTML/C/Java)
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by saundby 16y ago
Bookshelves, an entertainment center, lots of medieval armor, several homebrew computers (I'm putting the finishing touches on an 8085 now: saundby.com), a couple of fish tanks, my computer desk, a parallelogram mount for my binoculars, sev
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Is It a Planet, or Not? Planets Flora and Mnemosyne? Really?(astrobasics.blogspot.com)
2 points by saundby 16y ago|1 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
A can of Diet Coke and a banana. I seldom eat before noon, when I do it's usually a piece of fruit.
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The Collapsing Sun: Is the Sun Dying as We Watch?(astrobasics.blogspot.com)
7 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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A First Look at Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (Finally)(catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
10 points by saundby 16y ago|6 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
Not I. But then, those famous bloggers are famous for managing to do so, in part, right? I think part of the idea is that you also earn money off of products that result from the blog, as well as the blog itself. If your articles roll nicel
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THree Simple Ways to Verify a Team is Self-Organizing(marekblotny.com)
2 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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Stopping Jonathan Livingston Seagull with Java(beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
Each language tends to have particular problems it's most used to solve. They may not even be what the language is most suited for. Figure out what sort of programs you want to write, then search on that to see what others use. There'll be
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by saundby 16y ago
There's always a lag time between accomplishment and external validation. Sometimes it's brief, but more often it's not. In my own case I'm used to it being on the order of two years or so. ;) My recommendation is to learn to be satisfied w
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Simple Collision Detection in Java(beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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by saundby 16y ago
Perhaps that's because the article isn't about the formation of galaxies but about the perception of what a galaxy is? Besides, it's a fairly long post without even getting into the nuts and bolts of astrophysics. ;)
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What is a Galaxy, Anyway?(astrobasics.blogspot.com)
24 points by saundby 16y ago|6 comments
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Greenfoot's Greenroom: What a Bonanza(catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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Multiple Constructors in Java without Repeated Code(beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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Java's Inner Classes: The Keys to the Kingdom(beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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Class Projects: The Good, the Bad, and the Future Value(catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
1 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments
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Cornell University's AVR Projects: Hobby Inspiration, Teaching Inspiration(catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
3 points by saundby 16y ago|0 comments

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