Questions tagged [education]
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How can avoid I merge conflicts on an interactive coding tutorial for beginners?
I am working on a JavaScript tutorial series for someone who has no experience coding.
The format of the series is that it is a public Github repo. Each lesson is a README.md markdown document, and ...
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Examples for bidirectional and unidirectional relationships between objects
To better demonstrate the difficulties of reading/updating objects in a multithreaded environment, I'm looking for examples for groups of objects with a bidirectional or unidirectional relationship ...
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Is there a stronger stress on management than on technical education in recent years? [closed]
In my working environment, over the past few years I have observed an increasing stress on developer management and self-management over technical education.
For example, at work I hear lots of ...
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How common are use SDLC methodologies in real life? [closed]
My instructor told us that some programmers are not using SDLC methodologies for making a system. Because in our project, we used one of the methodologies. If we do not use one of them, maybe our ...
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"Design patterns", "Reactive programming", etc...How do these terms fit together? [closed]
The context: For all intents and purposes, I feel like I'm about the level of a pretty competent second year student at computer science. I have taken all the basic algorithms and systems classes; my ...
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Going through The C Programming Language K&R in Visual Studio [closed]
From what I have read, K&R seems to be a good place to start learning programming in general, and C programming specifically. However, I've just started the first chapter and I have a few ...
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How to transition from "help vampire" to "developer"? [closed]
I've been a computer enthusiast my entire life, but didn't first start programming (web development) until I began College. It is now four years later - I am about to graduate, have had a handful of ...
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Where in computer science education does "reuse and integration" find comprehensive coverage? [closed]
This intro is only my naive attempt at a mile-high snapshot helping me to position my question. Any user trying to answer my question, that tries to nail down one aspect of programming, will have to ...
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What kind of programming languages have the highest pedagogical value? [duplicate]
There is one camp of thought that argues that the first learned language should be C (or even some assembler). The motivation being that
Doing everything yourself builds discipline to e.g. garbage ...
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Professional Development: Finding that "pet project" to work on - then managing other commitments [closed]
At the moment, like a fair few of you I'd imagine, I spend at least 40 hours working on projects that use a specific set of technologies. Sometimes I'm doing maintenance, and have those technologies ...
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Do CS departments have formal procedures to choose languages taught? [closed]
I'm not talking about countryside colleges/unis.
Are there any thought-out procedures in top-ranking institutions based on formal criteria, actual statistics or demand from the industry?
If so, what ...
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Will I learn more from changing other people's code? [closed]
I am currently trying to break through the intermediate coder stage to advanced and needless to say it's been tough.
I have been working through several books with example code. I have felt lately ...
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Should object oriented programming be the first thing students learn? [closed]
My high school is starting a program where, instead of following the 'traditional' method of teaching programming (learning variables, then operations, loops, methods, and finally OOP), students are ...
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How Do I Determine the Value of a Technical book? [closed]
I'm interested in finding more books like The Pragmatic Programmer. Rather than the run of the mill, technology-specific books that are out of date by the time they go to press. Can you provide advice ...
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How can I improve these online java programming puzzles I wrote for my (middle/high school) students? [closed]
I'm teaching some middle and high school students programming right now, and I found that some of them really liked online programming puzzles. So I created http://www.kapparate.com/coder/ , and right ...
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