Mr. Higgins’ Blog

Like many fellow AP Computer Science teachers, I like to hammer on concepts and then allow the students to program.  Often, after learning a new concept,  we work through an example as a class.  For example, after learning about arrays, we go through an example of counting the total for each letter in the alphabet.  [...]

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According to Matthew Brenner, it is an IDEA. I could not agree anymore. My students were just assigned a TicTacToe program over the Christmas Break. As soon as I introduced all of the requirements, there was a period of silence where no one knew where to start. It helped when I explained that we have [...]

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I am publishing this using the new version of Windows Live Writer. It was really difficult to install and I’m not convinced it is installed correctly at this point. With that being said, I really like the interface; therefore, I’m giving it a chance.  Here are the issues I have been having with the installation… [...]

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