Comment Not the first time by a commercial ship (Score 1) 373

by hnw555 on Thursday July 30, 2009 @07:47AM (#28879991) Attached to: Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality

The SS Manhattan performed a crossing of the northwest passage in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Manhattan_(1962)

Comment CS in Schools (Score 1) 474

by hnw555 on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @09:05AM (#26222259) Attached to: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

An excellent method for teaching CS in middle and high schools is by using ALICE. Alice is designed to teach programming concepts to non techies and was developed by Dr. Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon. See www.alice.org

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