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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:56 AM

Top Conversations and Links for July 2008

July was interesting. If you missed it (all you lucky teachers who got to actually relax and disconnect in July) here are some of the highlights according to comments, reads, and links followed. Tops would have to be the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:27 AM

Examples and Exercises

Leigh Ann Sudol has an interesting post titled The Beauty and Elegance of Computer SCIENCE . In it she talks about what makes a good example or exercise and the difference between an exercise and an example. One thing she leaves out, or perhaps just doesn’t
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Friday, July 11, 2008 6:09 AM

The Four Digit Problem

So I was remembering a piece of code I had to write once. Honestly I don’t remember exactly why I had to write it. I think it may have been part of a set of patterned data for some test software though. In any case the problem was to generate a four digit
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Friday, July 04, 2008 6:44 AM

June 2008 Top Conversations

June was an interesting month with two main topics that generated traffic and conversation. The most conversation was about women in computer science. Women and Minorities in Computer Science had several comments and attracted a lot of readers. But Articles
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:59 AM

Learn How to Create a Popfly Input Box

Ed Dunhill have been running a series on web development on his blog. Recently he wrote a great post on Popfly to teach people how to create a custom input box. Ed’s summary of what the post is about is here: For the purpose of this tutorial we will implement
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Monday, June 16, 2008 9:50 AM

Learning How to Make a Peer to Peer Zune Game

I wish I had Dan Waters’ creativity. Recently Dan posted a how to video to introduce the peer to peer Zune game he created . There are a couple of points Dan makes about this example that make it a good learning project. Zune games are perfect for peer-to-peer
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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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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:57 AM

A Group Project – Create an Index File System

Back when I first started writing code for commercial use I was working on a project on a small computer (about the size of a small refrigerator) that was also a very low cost computer (well under $100,000). Obviously a computer like that could not support
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM

May Posts in Review

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/06/03/may-posts-in-review.aspx'; May was an interesting month for me in several ways. One area that I struggled with though was blogging. Perhaps it is because the school year is winding down but
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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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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:18 AM

Code For Decoding Codes – A Programming Project Discussion

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/13/code-for-decoding-codes-a-programming-project-discussion.aspx'; I love to collect fun coding projects. I like short, easy to understand projects that get students to use a number of things
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Monday, May 12, 2008 6:11 AM

Getting Started Tutorials for Zune Game Development

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/14/getting-started-tutorials-for-zune-game-development.aspx'; Well it hasn’t taken long for more people to jump on the XNA 3.0 Community Technical Preview that was announced last week . Sam Stoke
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:27 AM

Best Practices: Designing Mobile Applications

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/30/best-practices-designing-mobile-applications.aspx'; These days mobile devices are everywhere. One of the cool things about Windows Mobile devices (Smartphones and Pocket PCs among others) is
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:00 AM

Popfly Coin Flip Mashup Tutorial

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/24/popfly-coin-flip-mashup-tutorial.aspx'; This is a tutorial I put together to provide a hands on experience for some teachers I am doing a workshop for today. I did a copy from a Word document
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:03 AM

XNA Links for Teachers (and other learners)

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/22/xna-links-for-teachers-and-other-learners.aspx'; I’ve been hearing from a lot of high school computer science teachers that they are looking for some fun and educational things to do with their
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