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I have begun working with the GridWorld Case Study, which is an early release of the case study that will be used on the AP Computer Science exam in May of 2008. Here are some notes and first observations:
The “narrative” is fairly strong, but I miss the Marine Biology Case Study narrative style with [...]

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Revels week is quickly approaching, and after the last class I am doubtful we will get beyond the coffee replication site. I want us to finish replicating at least the first page, but I’m scared. See you tomorrow and we will work on the replication together.
Next week while the seniors are in Revels, [...]

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It is my hope that by the beginning of Monday’s class you will have all of the logic needed for the babysitter project worked out and will be focusing exclusively on writing Javascript. As you recall from class, you can write the “logic” portion by hand using whatever makes sense to you. An example:
if (the [...]

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You have been introduced to the general concept of trees.  In Monday’s class, we will begin discussing Binary Search trees.
Here are two good resources I have found that introduce Binary Search Trees.
Binary Search Trees explained from a course at Stanford University
Java Applet (about 4/5th down the page) shows you insertion, deletion and search in a [...]

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I’m sorry to have neglected my Weblog for so long.  At least I have been coming in a deleting the spam from my comments.  It really stinks.  I can’t beleive how much spam I’m getting.
We have worked our way briskly through a number of chapters in the book, and are now ready to start looking [...]

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