CompSci.ca is moving onto a dedicated server. This means that this blog, forums, and other projects will run blazingly fast as soon as they move out of the crowded shared host. This also means that we need to start thinking about our own off-site backup system. That happens to be located in Dan’s basement, Thunder [...]
Many high school computer science students have heard of Turing, a proprietary language/IDE developed and owned by Holtsoft. The fact that Turing’s development environment is proprietary poses many problems to students who try to do their schoolwork at home. The $75 price tag is hardly justified, considering the limitations of the software’s functionality and support. [...]
So right after writing about the advantages of collaboration, I would like to welcome Clayton Shier in what would hopefully become a regular contributor position to this blog. Clayton is a grade 11 student, and has taken a very active part in this community for over a year. He is very enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and has [...]