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For questions about labs. Labs are hands-on full class period activities where students are given an objective that they have to reach and the tools to reach it. Lab work can extend beyond the lab and become homework.

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Since we've reached a point where you can trust very little that you don't physically witness the students doing, I get the feeling that many CS teachers have moved over to limiting the impact of labs ...
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We are designing a curriculum for a new undergraduate CS program. And Ive been wondering how far the RISC-V envelope can be pushed... Can we use it to teach the traditional computer organization and ...
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I am looking for a good textbook to teach freshman (or some sophomores) introductory to software engineering. Specially, need that the textbook has example labs/projects for the whole semester ...
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I am having some difficulties to find free access documentation, lecture notes, scientific papers, or books, on a course I have to give. Course topic is "Services-centered design". Course ...
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I will be teaching a course to college students in their 3rd year in college study. So far, they have taken only one programming course in MATLAB. We have a package, i.e., is a set of functions, ...
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I was reading this article “Ten quick tips for teaching programming” by Neil C. C. Brown and Greg Wilson at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5886386/ It had many useful suggestions one of ...
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I teach programming in french where we use the ambiguous names labo for laboratoire == laboratory or ...
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I'm teaching a capstone (the final class in an undergraduate program) software engineering course in which we are developing Android applications in Java. I consider test-driven development and unit ...
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We are teaching an AP CS class and the topic of 2d-arrays is coming up. There are plenty of cool and approachable sample applications for standard rectanglular arrays - matrix math, MIDI music, sudoku,...
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The title of the question actually says almost everything there is to say. I cannot think of any programming labs whatsoever that would naturally flow from set theory. My students will be coding in ...
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The official course description for AP Computer Science A, a high-school level course focusing on OOP using Java, details a 20-hour lab requirement. College Board provides three labs ready-made for ...
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I currently utilize Cloudera’s QuickStart VM and for Talend’s Big Data Sandbox as part of my big data classes. These touch on frameworks, storage / data access options, data integration, data quality, ...
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I teach Windows Forms programming, and now ASP.Net (essentially the same thing, except you view it in a browser) and I am dismayed that students seem to spend an enormous amount of time straining at ...
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I give a lab on single-dimensional loops and arrays. By "single dimensional loops", I mean that there is no nesting of loops. (I will later give a second lab on multi-dimensional loops and arrays, ...
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When I did customer service for an application I was developing, I found that most of the time, if I did NOT answer the phone, the user would figure out their problem and learn more than if I did ...
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