Super Paper Programming

In today’s over digitalized environment, I think that many people, especially younger students, are missing the value that paper and pencil still supply to the field of computer programming. No, not the punchcard programming, or writing pseudocode on a paper exam — that’s bad. I’m talking about sketching out your concepts — that’s good!
It’s difficult [...]

Video: A Vision of Students Today

Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, has previously published his widely popular The Machine is Us/ing Us video. Since then he has made a new short video – A Vision of Students Today, which I first found through Paul Stamatiou’s blog.

It’s an absolutely fantastic video, that creates a snapshot [...]

Physics: A step to the side

Out of the six degrees of computer science, Physics is probably the furthest specialization from Computer Science. You might be inclined to say it’s connected to Computer Science only through intensive use of Math, which happens to also be present in Computer Science. However, there are a lot more links under the surface.

One of the [...]