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DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Download the article Reference [link] Link to the activity sheet Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Sownak gives a talk at an international conference in Shanghai, China, in 2019 Sownak and his colleagues played for the Durham Galacticos football team during a National Astronomy Meeting!

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MARCH 21, 2018

Many of the missions are open-ended and can be solved with a wide variety of different solutions so students can play them over and over again. Along the way, students learn common physics terms in context, hone problem-solving and creative-thinking skills, and discover that physics is fun. 2 Crash course.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Throughout his career, Dr. deGrasse Tyson’s research has focused on cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation. In 1962, Johnson manually confirmed complex orbital equations that had been created and implemented by a worldwide network of computers. Read her biography from NASA.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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