Category: Computer Science
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Ladies Learning Code
From this article at ReadWriteWeb on the Ladies Learning Code team come the story of them starting HackerYou and pursing other opportunities for women to learn to code and not in a University setting. Read the article, it is an interesting team of women tackling a difficult problem. A university alternative As to the need…
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Reasons to Teach Computer Science to Every Student
Because when they are in court they can either look like they possess a High School education or not. The judge got one, Oracle’s attorney didn’t even get the respect from Oracle’s programmers to explain how code works. From Slashdot: "One month into the Oracle v Google trial, Judge William Alsup has revealed that he…
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Google and MIT announce open sourcing of the App Inventor code
I finally found the Google App Inventor Blog for MIT. I am catching up to using App Inventor again in class after pausing while MIT took it over. From the Blog: Google and MIT are pleased to announce the initial free and open-source release from Google of the App Inventor source code at http://code.google.com/p/app-inventor-releases/. There’s…
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Should Computer Science Be Required in K-12?
I found this article today by Audrey Watters. Read the entire article and the related material and comments Should Computer Science Be Required in K-12? It resonated with me as I was unable once again to get a substantive step forward in teaching CS at my current school. Sadly, the competition for existing Science classes,…
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Google Apps Script is Another Reason to Learn Javascript with CodeYear
Automate tasks across Google Products Scripts that are easy to build and fast to run Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. With Google Apps Script you can: Automate repetitive business processes (e.g. expense approvals,…