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Schools across the country are taking steps to broaden the appeal of the major. More than a dozen universities have adopted "media computation" programs, a sort of alternate introduction to computer science with a New Media vibe. The classes, which have been launched at schools from the University of San Francisco to Virginia Tech, teach basic engineering using digital art, digital music and... -
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The math computer scientists use regularly, in real life, has very little overlap with the list above. For one thing, most of the math you learn in grade school and high school is continuous: that is, math on the real numbers. For computer scientists, 95% or more of the interesting math is discrete: i.e., math on the integers. -
3voteCurriculum map for Grade 11 at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. More of a computer literacy curriculum. Part I: Hardware and the Structure of the Internet. Part II: Multimedia - digital portraiture and life stories interviewing and audio editing.
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3voteCurriculum map for Grade 10 at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. Part I: Maps and Information Theory - multi-dimensional design and a pattern language. Part II: Discrete Math - duplicate of Grade 9.
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3voteCurriculum map for Grade 9 at the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. Part I: Number Systems - historical number systems to binary. Part II: Discrete Math - electronic circuits, logic, and graph theory.
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ever wondered about what would be the best color for your graphs? While common in the sciences, it may be fair to say that the use of color in graphs is still under-appreciated in many social science fields. Colors can be a every effective tool to visualize data in many forms, because color is essentially a 3-d concept [...] -
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Jakob Nielsen's list of general (computer related) skills that should in his opinion be taught in elementary school. -
2voteI may be the last software geek on the planet to have read it, but Joel Spolsky's "The perils of Java in schools" resonated with me. Spolsky's premise is that Java isn't "hard" enough to weed out the competent from the incompetent software talent. [...]
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1vote"First-generation Electronic Computers (1937-1953)" This is the second chapter of a textbook I wrote and used to teach computer science at the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. It covers the development of binary math through the cryptographic machines of WWII and into ENIAC and the UNIVAC.
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2vote"Up to and Including the Mechanical Generation." This is the first chapter of a textbook I wrote and used to teach computer science at the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School.
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