cklosowski - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Problem is (Score 1) 527

by cklosowski on Thursday June 23, 2011 @11:34AM (#36542034) Attached to: Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change

Somewhat offtopic, something that isn't done enough when people are learning to do design and coding, is to analyze failures

I think that's totally on topic. It's part of the learning process. The other thing that isn't taught is how to take that 'bad design' and refactor it to become a good design. Scrapping an entire codebase isn't feasible 100% of the time, but a refactor can breathe new life into a codebase. In order to improve, you must know where it went bad. Plain and simple.

Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? 364

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:01PM from the ok-now-track-the-family-budget dept.

dingo_kinznerhook writes "I grew up in a homeschooling family, and was homeschooled through high school. ( I went on to get a B.S. and M.S. in computer science; my mom has programming experience and holds bachelor's degrees in physics and math — she's pretty qualified to teach.) Mom is still homeschooling my younger brother and sister and is looking for a good computer science curriculum that covers word processing, spreadsheets, databases, intro to programming, intro to operating systems, etc. Does the Slashdot readership know of a high school computer science curriculum suitable for homeschooling that covers these topics?"

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