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by teach 15y ago
Yes, I only make them do the first ten assignments in Notepad and a command-line compiler. Then we switch to JCreator, which is a pretty unremarkable IDE, but it does have syntax highlighting and a few other niceties that make it a much mor
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by teach 15y ago
I agree. I don't get to choose whether or not I teach Java; that's determined by the state. However, in my class, we write our first working program on the first day of coding. We install the JDK, do a basic DOS primer, type in our first pr
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by teach 15y ago
Yeah, it's 70, not 80. Not sure what I was thinking there, and now it's too late to edit my original comment. Anyway, the "Swing" assignments are there in the sequence for four reasons: 1) To break up the monotony a little bit. 2) To give t
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by teach 15y ago
My class is an honors elective, fulfills no state requirements, and there's a waiting list to get in. My kids are already pretty motivated. You really, really have no idea how difficult precise logical thinking is for an average person.
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by teach 15y ago
How to use a compiler. Basic shell of a Java program. That statements occur in a sequence. Practice with getting details right. Mathematical expressions. What variables are, and how assignments to expressions differ from formulas (in Excel,
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by teach 15y ago
I taught myself programming from a book, too. We're super geniuses, yes.
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by teach 15y ago
High school CS teacher here. I really hate taking shots at Khan Academy, because I love what they do and his other videos have really helped a lot of my students in chemistry, economics, etc. However, he's moving through the material MUCH m
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by teach 15y ago
I'm sure this varies wildly by locale. In Austin, most employees I've ever asked anything pretty much knew.
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by teach 15y ago
Given the description, I was expecting it to automatically infer the content of images and categorize them.
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by teach 15y ago
I agree with every aspect of your comment except one: Dropbox does not require the mouse. I've been very happily running it on my headless web server for over a year. There's a CLI installer, and you can do things using the 'dropbox' comm
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by teach 15y ago
When I install Dropbox on a new machine, I can use selective sync to decide which folders are kept in sync on that machine. You can configure selective sync in CLI mode using 'dropbox exclude <path>'. (Unfortunately, I don't think t
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by teach 15y ago
"We're trying to remove the barrier between 'I want that' and 'I have it'." - Sam Hall, Amazon's director of wireless products and service I don't know about others, but my consumption of digital music from Amazon increased by about $20 a m
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by teach 15y ago
I often refer to June (our first month of summer vacation) as "homicide prevention month". I'm only mostly joking. I do agree that time off should be considered when talking about teacher salaries. I know other states are different, but in
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by teach 15y ago
I've heard proposals for both bandied about. Some suggest that we ought to go year round "like they do in Korea" [sic] to get more learning in. Others just want to space out the breaks more evenly, as you suggest.
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by teach 15y ago
Prof. Astrachan has written a lot of the material for the high-school Advanced Placement computer science course (which I teach), and I agree that he has a rare gift and we (in the APCS community) are blessed to have his involvement.
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by teach 15y ago
Healthy quantities of vacation time is one of the reasons I'm still in public education after 15 years. Teaching in a public school isn't the easiest job in the world (nor the hardest, probably), and not everyone has the personality for it,
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by teach 15y ago
I suspect Liz Upton is female.
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by teach 15y ago
Good call. That interpretation seems obvious in retrospect.
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by teach 15y ago
I think you're mistaken about superpowers flinging nukes at each other. Only two nuclear weapons have ever been used in war, and that was 65 years ago.
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by teach 15y ago
I'm pretty certain that "invitation only" wasn't a ploy to drive up demand; it was just a way to make sure they could scale up the number of users in some sane fashion.
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by teach 15y ago
I only pay for the 200MB per month plan from AT&T, so I always use less than that.... The plan determines my behavior, not vice-versa. I'm careful to turn on WiFi both at home and at work. I can't allow myself to listen to streamed musi
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by teach 15y ago
I have no way of knowing if you've ever dabbed in photography, but I have; taking a good photo is alarmingly difficult.
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by teach 15y ago
Maybe I'm anomalous, but I use the navigation bar EVERY DAY, because I check to see the free Android app and also check their discounted mp3 album and free mp3. Each one is one click away using the navbar. I prefer physical albums to mp3s,
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by teach 15y ago
I love this quote: "It has always been about winning the lottery." My three rules for becoming a rock star: 1) At least a little talent. 2) A willingness to do whatever it takes. 3) Being in the right place at the right time. I think number
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by teach 15y ago
I really does seem like the admin of FunnyJunk is doing everything possibly (albeit unintentionally) to goad Inman into suing the site. He's complying in the most asinine ways (for example, removing all "The Oatmeal" comics... but only the
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by teach 15y ago
So in this case, you're not talking about making the software easier to use, you're talking about about making a cleaner legal audit trail. Which I'll still argue makes the application in question harder to use and is a worse software ch
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by teach 15y ago
I would argue that in almost all cases, a confirmation is far inferior to undo from a usability standpoint. I must admit to having been persuaded by Aza Raskin, in his widely-read article "Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo". [0] http:
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by teach 15y ago
When I wanted to get better at Python, I started working through the problems at Project Euler[0], because they were novel and interesting. Also, many of them needed non-trivial optimizations to produce an answer in a reasonable amount of t
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by teach 15y ago
You're incorrect about the methodological flaws. Only 50-year-olds are mentioned because this is a longitudinal cohort they've been testing since 1977, and this year (2009) it's their turn to be reported. The "adjusted" number is higher tha
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by teach 15y ago
You're really misreading these statistics. Nowhere do they say anything close to "85% of Americans use marijuana". On page 103, it says that 82% of fifty-year-olds (who attended high school during the heaviest-drug-using period in Americ

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