Among Computer Science educators, hardly any topic inspires more heated debate than the choice of programming language in the introductory sequence. In the late 80s, the uniformly accepted choice was Pascal, but since then, a host of alternatives have come into use. C++ seems to have emerged as the winner, while Pascal, C, Ada, Scheme, and Modula-3 split most of the remaining market.
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The Open-Source Physics project is a synergy of curriculum development, computational physics, and physics education research. One goal of the project is to make a large number of Java simulations available for education using the GNU Open-Source model. This manual describes some of the classes and interfaces that are being used in this project.
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The personal computer brought in a whole new era of electronic sophistication. With it, we have immense amounts of digital computing power located right at our desk. Computers work well when they are connected to each other, and digital data can be transferred quite reliably from machine to machine.
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This poster aims to provide the concept of Web 2.0 and its relevant tools in language teaching and learning. An online blog is served as an information kiosk and indicate possible instructional design and applications to language education. By experimenting with the Web 2.0 tool in a participatory community, we are hoping language teachers will learn about appropriate tools ready to be used and further think about the relationship of Web 2.0 and the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and 5 Cs (communication, culture, connections, comparisons, and communities) as well as the Wallace’s framework for assessing its effectiveness
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Kid Pix® Deluxe 4™ for Schools is a major update of the best-selling education and creativity program. It was designed with extensive input from teachers and students to be the best personal productivity and creativity tool for every K–8 classroom.

In this version, teachers can control which graphic libraries are active for a project. This is ideal for theme-based teaching or special needs students. Teachers can add instructions to project templates, which students can listen to with the bilingual text-to-speech function.
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The Oracle Academy’s Hosted Database offering provides web-enabled access to an Oracle database for schools that have experienced IT staff to teach database fundamentals using their own curriculum. Using Oracle’s HTML DB web interface, schools harness the power of the Oracle database to teach students relational database concepts. Because this service is hosted by Oracle, there is no need to install or maintain any hardware or software.
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Microsoft has developed a language called C# (—see sharp“) that it claims will allow programmers to —quickly and easily build solutions“ for its new.NET platform [3]. The language has much in common with Java, particularly in those features emphasized in CS1 and CS2 courses. It also includes some of the desirable features of C++ that are missing from Java as well as some new features not available in either language. This paper explores the pros and cons of teaching CS1 and CS2 using C# instead of Java and concludes with a discussion of the author‘s plans for teaching such a course in the fall of 2002.
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Using Statistics, Lookup and Search Features in Spreadsheets to Analyze Data Incorporate the interactivity of Google Spreadsheets into your classroom adding data analysis and multi discipline lessons to your curriculum. Using spreadsheets and chart creation with Google tools, student teams or multiple classes can author and share spreadsheets for group analysis. This sample lesson demonstrates how World History or Contemporary Issues classes can benefit from this tool. 1. Start with a discussion on World perspectives or the quality of life.
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