Should CS students be keeping a portfolio, and if so, what should it look like? What would you, as a potential employer or college recruiter, like to see in/on a potential employee or student portfolio? Are there ways other than portfolios to showcase a student's work?
Many high schools, mine in...
I am completely losing my mind. I want to pose a new question in the sandbox, but I've forgotten - do I answer The Question Sandbox question, or post a new question in Meta?
As a strategic matter, while I appreciate your acceptance of my answer (bigly), it is good to wait. Some potential answerers refrain from answering accepted questions, though they can get badges for lots of upvotes on a question with an accepted answer.
New "questions" for the site are posed as "answers" in the sandbox. Meta generally is for more general things.
I was thinking about an avatar over the weekend. Feel like a bleary-eyed, beleaguered mother cat whose ears and tail have been nipped a little too much by her kittens would work.
Subject: How do you teach Big O notation to high schoolers?
My second semester programming course curriculum includes a searching and sorting unit and mentions Big O notation, giving the notation for each search and sort we implement. It does not show the derivations but does show how you can ...
@JudyOakley in reference to the question about teaching Big O--there were some lectures given by Dr. Gerald Sussman (related to SICP) and in those lectures he did discuss Big-O and how we would arrive at it. I mean as far as I recall the lectures are recorded and freely available online.
Thanks, @OnorioCatenacci, I'll check them out, but from the titles it appears they would be way over the heads of my high-schoolers, some of whom haven't even completed Algebra. That's my dilemma. Plus a university level discussion of the subject would scare most of them to death.
But my question had to do with Clarkson MI. Seems like a small and out of the way place. I grew up in Pontiac, actually and once had a connection to Oxford. I have relatives IRL around that area.
But I'd like to hear more about the tech stuff you are doing/fostering around there.
Ah--well I was a developer for 25+ years but I always had an interest in training other developers. Mostly out of selfishness because when I teach others, I learn myself and I love to learn new stuff.
I have a bit of involvement with some of the local user groups for software development. I run an Elixir user group and I'm sort of active with a few of the local .Net groups.
There's been some small movement to getting a more high-tech economy here in SE Michigan but the big 3 still dominate a lot.
Most of the real movement toward getting a real tech culture going around here has been out toward Ann Arbor.
At least as far as I know. :)
There's not really any tech work in Clarkston. I live there but work in Troy.
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