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Metacritic: Best Albums of 2007 Best Albums of 2007The following table displays the highest-scoring albums for the year in Metacritic’s database. Also listed at the bottom of the page are year-end critic top ten lists culled from various music publications, as well as year-end picks (tags: aptbs) LAS magazine | music, media, art, culture, life, […]

links for 2007-11-15 – Listings from itunes; links

The last assignment in CS I will deal with manipulating an iTunes listing. In some ways it is the standard stuff you do with a list of items/objects – Add, Delete, Sort, List. The wrinkle here is to transform the XML exported by iTunes to come up with a CSV list. Some resources follow. XML.com: […]

links for 2007-11-12

OK, so things did not  go so well for some students on the second test in CS I. It looked like they didn’t get the details of working with arrays in time for the test. Thus an opportunity for additional credit seemed appropriate. In looking for some exercises they could complete and learn something about […]

links for 2007-11-08 – Fireplace insert

That’s right, we’re thinking very seriously about getting a fireplace insert. Wood seems easy to come by and producing our own heat is very attractive. Wood Fireplace Insert and Hearth Stove Main Page Lots of good information about inserts, wood stoves, EPA regulations, and the like.  (tags: fireplace chimney) — U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The […]

links for 2007-11-07 – Ah, the future!

Our department has an informal monthly get-together of students and faculty. We usually try to have a theme. This month it was my term to come up with a theme and I thought it would be interesting to have students react to some scenarios of the future. This the first two links below. Mary Washington […]

links for 2007-11-06 – Research Proposals

One course I’m teaching this semester is titled “Research Methods in Computer Science.” One goal is to have students prepare a research proposal. These links have some good resources for that. Writing a Research Proposal This section caters for postgraduate students who are either applying for grants, or seeking acceptance onto a higher research degree […]

links for 2007-10-23

IT Conversations: Beth Kanter (tags: non profit udell)

links for 2007-10-22

Java Practices: Fetch web page and header (tags: fetch web page header java)

Lee Valley Tools

Lee Valley Tools – Woodworking Tools, Gardening Tools, Hardware Lee Valley Tools has been meeting the needs of serious woodworkers and gardeners for 30 years as one of the leading mail-order and retail suppliers of woodworking tools, gardening tools, and cabinet hardware.  (tags: cool tools)

Empirical Experiments in CS

5. Experimental Results (tags: sorting experiments algortihms) Run-Time Sorting Experiments (tags: sorting experiments) Sorting Algorithm Animations from Programming Pearls (tags: Sorting Algorithm Animations) CS202/ CSci202 Laboratory 07 Timing Sorting Algorithms (tags: timing sorting algorithms) Algorithms and Experiments The last twenty years have seen enormous progress in the design of algorithms, but little of it has […]