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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Column
The elements of one of the most used and popular data designs around.
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Charles Babbage and the Loom
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
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An Open Call to Establish an Interdisciplinary Data Science Education Journal
In this blog, we describe our vision for a journal that would focus on data science education from the interdisciplinarity perceptive.
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Computing Education Is Not the Same as Engineering Education
Learning Engineering is not always about Becoming an Engineer. Computing Education outside of Engineering Education is bigger than the part inside.
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases
SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar schemas or key-value pairs. One...
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The World's Most Magnificent Historical Calculating Machines
The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines from earlier times.
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Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications...
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The World's Most Magnificent Historical Automatons
Automatons are ubiquitous. Some of the most magnificent works in the genre have survived in museums.
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Is the Pandemic Affecting Science and Engineering Undergraduate Students?
The importance of the students’ voice.
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NoSQL vs. SQL
Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.
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Tips for Successful Examinations in the Age of Remote Education
Rather than fancying you can control Internet access, design exams to reward students who won't need it.
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How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record
Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.
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Lessons From and For Online Teaching
The troika model for successful online teaching.
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The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
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