compsci

Welcome back from long weekend. Doesn’t it feel like spring? 38 days until spring break
This class will merge Grace, who took the course last semester, with Kayla who took the course last year. Interesting. I suspect this first day will be spent figuring out what we all know. [...]

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Welcome back from long weekend.  Doesn’t it feel like spring .  38 days until spring break.
We are back and in our new schedule.  We meet during E format, and I am just realizing that this time is at the same time as another class.  Hmmm, interesting.  I will talk to the scheduler today, but [...]

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Doesn’t it feel like spring is here?  38 days to spring break
Welcome to our new semester.  I am so excited that my two “classes” now get to merge and we will all be together.  You all worked hard last semester to master the concepts and skills needed for us to continue our work [...]

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While doing a search tonight, I discovered this Web site: ZoomInfo.com I was shocked to discover the information on the site and at how much information they had collected and display on people I work with.  According to the site, the information on you was collected through the Internet: “information that makes up this Web [...]

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As we’ve learned, a heap is a special kind of tree where each node in the tree contains a value that is less than it’s parent node.  We also want to make sure that each node in the tree gets added in a specific order.  All of this makes inserting new items into a heap [...]

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This week we worked on the ArrayList project, where I asked you to implement the SimpleList interface in a class called ArrayList. ArrayList is a class that puts a class interface around an array.
Great work in finishing up this project. Using and understanding ArrayList is key to the next part of working with [...]

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The focus in class this week has been on learning how to write functions for your Javascript programs.  The concept is fairly simple – break your program into smaller programs (functions) that can be called in order to put together a whole program.  However, the implementation of functions can be confusing.  To make things less [...]

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This week we will work on implementing a Binary Search Tree class.  This class will use the TreeNode and KeyValue classes to write a BinaryTreeMap class.  I hope we will all be able to have a solution written and tested by Friday.

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Dr. Kurt Fischer. “Human behavior and the developing brain” & other books. Director of mind, brain & education program at Harvard University.
Relating Mind, Brain & Education(Dr. Fischer’s slide presentation)
- Avoid simplistic neural explanations (e.g. which hemisphere of my brain controls “International Relations?”
- Avoid simplistic genetic explantaions (e.g. “My genes made me do it”)
- Try to [...]

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