Showing posts with label computer science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer science. Show all posts

Free computer science resources for teachers and students

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My school has an award-winning computer science program and the teacher, who is also the school's webmaster, has a great list of resources for computer science students and teachers.

The site has links to lessons he uses plus external links on everything from HTML to Java to CSS.

If you teach computer science or are a student of it, this is a great resource for you.


Related:

Learning HTML Code - some resources to get started

Google Code University - free computer science classes



Mind the Gap - Google encourages women to enter Computer Science

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It's a well known fact that engineering is dominated by men. A group of women at Google in Israel is trying to change that through a program they started in 2008 called "Mind the Gap!". This program encourages girls to pursue math, science and technology education and careers. Girls visit Google's office and tech conferences to talk to female engineers and get more interested in engineering. Data shows participants are more likely to go into STEM fields than those who didn't participate.

You can read more at the projects homepage: http://cse.proj.ac.il/index_units.htm 

This is a great program and I hope more companies will look at doing this to help encourage STEM education and careers.


Source:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/mind-gap-encouraging-women-to-study.html


Learning HTML Code - some resources to get started

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I've been teaching myself HTML over the last few months to do more with my blog and class sites than the templates allow. I had taken BASIC in high school and advanced BASCI, PASCAL, and Fortran in College. I also learned G-Code, which is the programming language for CNC machines when I was working for a small company as an engineer. This is making it easier to learn HTML code.

Here are some resources I've found to help learn HTML:

w3schools - html tutorial - easy to use and read

Learn basic HTML Tags

HTML Beginner Tutorial - mini lessons and explanations on HTML code

Useful HTML Codes and Tags




Do you have any good HTML programming resources?


UPDATED:

From my Google+ circles - Code Academy -free, interactive way to learn how to code



Discovery Education Dawn Junior Wildlife Champions-free lesson plans about oil spills and wildlife

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Dawn Junior Wildlife Champions is another great resource for Discovery Education, in partnership with Dawn.

The site has three lessons, recommended for grades 3-5, available for download. The lessons contain investigative research, hands-on experiments, and even at-home activities. There are also teacher resources and tools. The lessons are about the issues relating to oil spills and the environment and wildlife.

These lessons can be adapted for use with other grade levels also.





Google Code University - free computer science classes

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Google Code University is a collection of free courses on computer science.

There is no registration and all materials are free to use. There are courses on programming languages, web programming, systems and more. There are basic tutorials and advanced classes. Some of the materials are from actual college computer science courses.

This is a great resource for computer science classes and can be used in class or as extra reinforcement.