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Thank goodness we only had 3 days of school this week.  I’m sorry for all the cancelled classes, everyone.  Wednesday was a debacle where I left my car keys in the car that Ms. Schettino drove to work.  I ended up biking in and didn’t get in until after programming III was over.
Thursday afternoon my [...]

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Someone created a “Fantasy Congress” Website where you can “draft” your favorite congressman.  I really don’t know how it works, but it’s a cool idea.

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If you use Citizen Bank you should read this article from the New York Times. In August, Carmel and I received new credit cards from Citizens bank and promptly tore them up because they included PayPass, a no-swipe credit card option. Citizens is one of the first adapters of this technology. I [...]

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Today I shadowed my advisee, Reeya.  Her first class was a 2nd period Spanish II class.  This class was very engaging, and my cheeks hurt at the end of class from smiling and laughing so much.  We then had Geometry, which was terrific and had Reeya at her most engaged.    Lunch was a blast sitting [...]

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Kelsey and Olivia made big strides forward and by and large have their HashMaps working – or close to working – with the case study.
On Friday we will do a performance comparison of the two solutions to the Unbounded Environment and begin discussion on the formal language of comparing performance of algorithm.

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A Micro-softys tips on using your Tablet PC while traveling.

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Good class today. I think everyone I spoke to was learning a lesson about the importance of being really really precise when it comes to creating slices with the intention of using them in some meaningful way in Dreamweaver.
I am cancelling Thursday’s class, as I will be shadowing an advisee that day. We won’t see [...]

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The Cow and Bull classes we are currently making are typical of the sort of information that you would want stored in a class.  Remember that a class is a way of representing the behavior of some real-life thing by giving it behaviors (constructors, accessors and mutators) and attributes (private member variables).  Our Cow and [...]

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Thanks for all of your hard work on your HashMap class.  We will spend a couple of days now getting your HashMap stuff to work with the Marine Biology Case Study.  First step is to get the Unbounded Environment class to work with a Map instead of a List.  We will look once again at [...]

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