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Paul Houle<p>Conference room on the top floor of the new Computer Science building with a floor plan taped to the glass</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cornell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>construction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>PseudoSeer is a search engine for algorithms expressed in pseudocode. An interesting concept.</p><p><a href="https://pseudoseer.ist.psu.edu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pseudoseer.ist.psu.edu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithms</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a></p>
Peter Drake<p>It's behind an ACM paywall, but if you happen to be a member, this is an excellent article:</p><p>Teaching about Accessibility in Computer Science Education</p><p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3729877" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3729877</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/acm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CSEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSEd</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>I'm redoing my CS 200 discussion boards for the Fall. My theme is, "Why you shouldn't trust software".</p><p>I think for the week 11 one I'll do something about software ownership vs. licensing. 🤔 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Paul Houle<p>Fresh landscaping on the side of Gates hall that I was able to photograph for the first time last week when they opened the plaze near the new CS building to the public</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cornell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ithaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ithaca</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/building" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>building</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>construction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/landscaping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landscaping</span></a></p>
No Starch Press<p>Build a BASIC interpreter, an NES emulator, and a KNN model—all from scratch.</p><p>This one’s for experienced Python programmers who want to understand how computing really works, one hands-on project at a time.</p><p>Now on pre-order sale! Get 30% off with code CSPROJECTS, through 8/5.</p><p><a href="https://nostarch.com/computer-science-from-scratch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nostarch.com/computer-science-</span><span class="invisible">from-scratch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computerscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Emulatordev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emulatordev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>
Paul Houle<p>Bridge between the new computer science building and Gates Hall</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cornell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ithaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ithaca</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>Don't use ChatGPT or other LLMs to summarize Google research papers. Especially don't do that for blog posts or presentations. If you don't understand the papers well enough to summarize them yourself, you're just going to look stupid letting an LLM mangle it for you.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ir</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/informationretrieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>informationretrieval</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>Animation of current student grades for Summer semester. I have two people who are going to turn things in either a little late before the grade submission date, or has an incomplete, because both had life incidents, but otherwise this is how the semester shook out.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
дблп - ☮ Stop the war!<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dblp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dblp</span></a> team is happy to celebrate reaching the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/milestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>milestone</span></a> of having more than 8 million <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerscience</span></a> publication in the dblp computer science bibliography.<br><a href="https://blog.dblp.org/2025/07/25/8-million-publications/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.dblp.org/2025/07/25/8-mil</span><span class="invisible">lion-publications/</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>I don't get these messages often, just sometimes, but I love it when I do!!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>For Day 2 of the Creative Coding Camp we'll be using Python and CodeSkulptor3, so here are some examples I created.</p><p>We'll start with Python basics, which is just text-based programs, but then we'll use the simpleplot and simplemap libraries, I also am linking them to some Open KC and Open KS data so they could plot - for instance - school funding per pupil per USD#, or plot a map of potholes reported in KC.</p><p>This is gonna be really cool!!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>The lessons I wrote for PencilCode stuff is here:<br><a href="https://moosadee.gitlab.io/courses/camp_creative_coding/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">moosadee.gitlab.io/courses/cam</span><span class="invisible">p_creative_coding/index.html</span></a></p><p>Turtle graphics, music, and interactivity.</p><p>I think for day 2 we'll use CodeSkulptor and Python3.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>Here's an example program I made using its turtle graphics and the menu coding it has available.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>Been having fun today messing around with PencilCode, which has logo-style turtle graphics, a music coder, and some interactive coding, so I think we'll do this for the first day for my class next week.</p><p><a href="https://gym.pencilcode.net/imagine/#/imagine/pages.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gym.pencilcode.net/imagine/#/i</span><span class="invisible">magine/pages.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”</p><p><a href="https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?</span><span class="invisible">p=1172</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DynamicProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DynamicProgramming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Misconceptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misconceptions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout</p><p><a href="https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-07-19/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-202</span><span class="invisible">5-07-19/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workstation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Layout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Layout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkstationDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkstationDesign</span></a></p>
Paul Balduf<p>For students in grades 10 to 13 in UK schools who are interested in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> , there is COMPOS, essentially an online STEM club organized by the Uni of Oxford, targeted at students whose school only offers sports clubs. It is in the process of being extended to also cover <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/computerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerScience</span></a> . Registration is open until 28 September. <a href="https://compos.web.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">compos.web.ox.ac.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee<p>What if I made a brochure for the first week of class with the fake company students will be "working for" as their projects throughout the semester? (A GitLab repo, taking tickets, creating merge requests, reviewing each others' work?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates</p><p><a href="https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-its" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-h</span><span class="invisible">ow-america-sold-out-its</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataOnAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataOnAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Graduates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Graduates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EducationTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EducationTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkforceIssues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkforceIssues</span></a></p>