Answer: CS & IT 2012 CSTA is proud to announce that Alex Suter, Research & Development Engineer for Industrial Light & Magic will be the closing keynote at this year’s Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) Conference. Alex’s…
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What’s in a Tweet?
If you have been following the news, I’m sure that you’ve been at least mildly interested in the story coming from the Bronx Zoo about a missing cobra. WPIX has the story on their website. Someone with a great sense…
11th Annual Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium
Register Now for CSTA’s Annual CS&IT Conference July 11, 12, & 13, 2011 Columbia University, New York July 11: Hands-on Workshops July 12: Keynotes and Breakouts July 13: Imagine Cup Activities You are cordially invited to attend the 11h annual…
Writing and Sharing Code
A while back, I had made reference somehow/somewhere to this infographic. Thanks, mint.com. It’s an infographic that claims to show how a credit card number can be validated. I don’t know if the algorithm explained is true in all cases…
Posted in Computers, Education, ICSXX, Just Rambling, learning, PLN, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
Staying Safe
It’s not always safe when you’re online. For the most part, if you have any up to date virus checker and a good firewall in place, you’ll be protected from people trying to get into your computer. There actually is…
A Scratch Bundle
It’s funny how things come together. Last night, my university class was getting their first exposure to the Scratch programming language. As I do weekly, I entered a few links to the class Wiki to some of the Scratch resources…
Posted in Computers, Del.icio.us, Diigo, Education, ICSXX, learning, Links, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
Welcome Visitors
It is possible for your blog to end up looking pretty badly. In fact, Alec Couros poked a little fun at our development of web content during his keynote address on the weekend. He talked about people who created webpages…
Posted in Computers, Education, ICSXX, Just Rambling, learning, Links, PLN, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
More Breadcrumbs
I quite enjoyed messing with the Google Breadcrumb from the Google labs. It was a pretty interesting way to quickly write an application that would play well on the web or on any of the smart phones or iPod or…
Championship Saturday…
…or … an opportunity to try out a little introduction to programming I’ve always wanted to try to write something with Google’s Breadcrumb programming environment. This is a simple introductory programming interface for text only content suitable for display on…
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, ICSXX, Just Rambling, learning, PLN, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
Dangers in Public Browsing
I think that we’ve all heard about the dangers of connecting to open networks. It’s the stuff that spy stories thrive on. You’re at your local coffee store doing some internet activity and a bad guy attaches to the same…
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