Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Most researchers and many engineers teach. Some take teaching as a chore; some actually like teaching; and some researchers like teaching so much as to do research about teaching, ... What I do want to talk about is an article which influe...

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England.
It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ...
Ian Wright,

My mom’s never written a line of software in her life,... how to program. She taught me arithmetic and fractions t... structures through laundry, and programming and algorith... Does that sound crazy? Let me explain.

The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

You need to teach people to know themselves and how to m... integrity of themselves on all levels, you need to teach... about thinking, how to collect, filter, collate, process... massive knowledge resources that they will have given to... and how to

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ...
Despite her success on the runway, Lyn

Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
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John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'
A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ...

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire