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Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM

A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions

I was looking through the web site for the HP Code Wars competition the other day and came across the page where they list the questions they have used in this annual high school programming competition since 1999. (The previous years questions – including
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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:02 AM

Class Programming Project Ideas

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/26/class-programming-project-ideas.aspx'; It is often interesting what one finds by reviewing referral links (the information that shows how people get to a blog or web site). One of the sites
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:30 AM

A Stopwatch Object in .NET

Did you know that there was a Stopwatch object in .NET? Me either. Apparently it was added in the .NET Framework in version 2.0 and no one told me. Imagine that. Seriously though I have often had to add some code in various projects to understand how
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:42 PM

Top December Posts

Well I must confess that I am struggling to get back into the whole "doing work" thing after taking the last 10 or so days off. It's a good thing I had posted some posts to appear during the break or some of your would wonder if I'd fallen off the face
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:51 AM

Insert Cute Little Cartoon Mascot Here

A long long time ago in a place far far away I was an operating system developer. OK it wasn't a place far far away in that it was here in New Hampshire where I still live but for many of you that is a far far away place in some ways. This was almost
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, November 05, 2007 4:12 AM

My Ideal First Programming Language

Long before I ran into graphical/drag and drop programming languages for kids like Scratch and Alice I was thinking about some thing similar. What I wanted was a tool that allowed a beginner to write their own programs without syntax and syntax errors
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Monday, May 21, 2007 3:21 AM

Irrelevant Programming Languages

Mark Hendrickson from O'Reilly has an interesting review of the market for computer books in a four part series. The fourth part examines the programming language book market. I have no doubt that it is a valuable discussion for people who are thinking
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments
Monday, February 19, 2007 1:36 AM

Programming Proverbs 4: Beware other approaches

This is the fourth of a series of posts based on the book Programming Proverbs by Henry Ledgard . The index for the series is an earlier post and discussion of the list as a whole is taking place in the comments there . Comments on this "proverb" are
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:04 AM

Visual Studio or VS Express Editions for the School Computer Lab?

Teaching computer programming requires good software development software. The Visual Studio family of products is the most modern state of the art tools available today. They are used by top professionals and yet are approachable to students and hobbyists
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:35 AM

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Posters

Are you a keyboard shortcut sort of person? Do you like to keep your hands on the keyboard and bypass the menus? I admit that I am one of those people. So when I saw that Microsoft has made available some reference posters for Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Friday, January 12, 2007 2:47 AM

Picking Programming Languages for High School - Never Ending Story

I see that Susan Canaga is bringing her school's discussion on programming languages looking for industry opinions. This is a topic I have addressed a number of times before (most recently here ) but one which never seems to be settled. In any case if
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 21 Comments
Monday, January 08, 2007 9:03 PM

Create Robot from iRobot

Looks like the people at iRobot have noticed the demand for computers by hobbyists and education. There were was supported to program the standard Roomba vacuum robot but that was actually pretty limited. Today at the Consumer Electronics Show they announced
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:40 AM

Attention Canadian Secondary School Programming Students

There is an online community site for Canadian students and programming enthusiasts at Compsci.ca . They have discussion forums (discussing languages including C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, Turing, and Visual Basic), a wiki and a blog . That site is also involved
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:42 AM

The Problem with Programming

In a recent interview , Bjarne Stroustrup , probably best known for inventing C++ and currently a professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University, talks about some of the big issues of program development, C++ and his legacy and other related
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:31 AM

Recursion - See Recursion

It's nice to see Dave Jacobus blogging about his programming courses again. Looks like all of his classes (IB CS, AP CS and Visual Basic) are all learning about recursion lately. Recursion is a really cool concept. I have to admit though that it took
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
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