The Question Sandbox
This question should serve as a sandbox for in-progress questions. Any question submitted here will automagically be shown in the Guidance Office. We need this space because it's hard to actually work...
View ArticleThe Two Doctrines Truth
I often see a distinction made between teaching school-age people 'Computing' and teaching Computer Science in college or beyond. The attitude about general education teaching seems to be that we can...
View ArticleTopic Challenges III: Return of the Topic
Well, it's been a while. To our new(-er) users, welcome to Topic Challenges. To our old(-er) users, welcome back. In the spirit of improving the site, its questions and the amount of fun and learning...
View ArticleWhat should we be doing about off topic questions?
In the last few months we've been receiving quite a few off topic questions, which clearly cannot be salvaged with editing. They typically are closed in a timely manner, but they still sit on the...
View ArticleHow to get code to display well
I can't get code samples I post into .my questions to display well. Usually I pre-type it on my editor, then copy and paste into the question box. Someone has to help edit it before it displays with...
View ArticleInterest in a big collection of CS1/CS2/CSx programming problems?
Having taught an introduction to programming course CCPS 109 Computer Science I using Python 3 for three semesters, after sixteen years of teaching that same course using Java, I have completed a...
View Article2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that...
View ArticleWhen are "how do I learn X" type questions on topic here?
I recently encountered the following question on Stack Overflow:I'm studying and I want to learn how to code in Java, but while my mates are doing arrays, I still continue with the basics - stuff like...
View ArticleTeaching analogy question
As of this writing, three people have flagged this question for closure. However, I believe that it is a straightforward teaching-analogy question, well in line with past examples. Here are just a few...
View ArticleSynonymize [lesson-planning] into [lesson-ideas]
lesson-planning has only three questions, and the much wider used lesson-ideas is for questions aboutplanning lessons for a specific purpose, such as teaching some coding paradigm or skill. Planning...
View ArticleConsidering what can be taught
In a previous Meta post I made, someone replied that I seem to be pessimistic about teaching anything to anyone. This is true, but until I read something recently, I could not explain why. Since this...
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Users shouldn't be told they're asking the wrong question
One of the things people hate about Stack Overflow is that when they ask a question of the form "How do I do X in Y?", they get answers of the form "You shouldn't do X" or "You shouldn't use Y". I...
View ArticleIs a question about the nature of education topical?
This question is unlike anything we've seen before:Difference between a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in CSIs it topical?Traditionally, we've focused on HOW to teach, with occasional...
View ArticleModifying the help center to better reflect our purpose
So, in our most recent meta question, we tried to determine whether or not this question is topical to the site.Gypsy Spellweaver pointed out:Without a change to the Help Center text it's off topic....
View Article2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are...
View ArticleInformational resource requests
What is the difference between resource-request and resource-information? In theory, any answer to a resource-request question would include information about that resource, so why do we have two tags?...
View ArticleRelated questions
Is it just me that is tempted to add a Question like: why isn't there one database to use instead of different database systems? I mean, this question got such a great, thought-provoking response!Been...
View Article2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange...
View ArticleSite topic scope
For the purposes of asking questions on Computer Science Educators, what is basic knowledge that would be taught to beginning programmers, and why for each part. (This is not a list question because I...
View ArticleRogue moving to chat?
My answer https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/a/7349/6346 did not have a long discussion iirc, but someone moved it to chat. Except that it seems to go to a totally inappropriate chat. The same has...
View ArticleTag maintenance required
I just went through the list of tags and found some possibilities for improvement.We have both "high-school" and "secondary-education". Perhaps they should be merged.We have "first" with no qualifier...
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View Article2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange...
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As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and...
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Ignore all line-breaks sandwhiched between two vertial bars inside of...
When I try to write mark-down language tables, line breaks are not usually allowed inside of the table.| Tag | Description | Code | Result |...
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Feature Request: can embed `svg` vector graphics from wikipedia
Many image files on Wikipedia are vector graphic files.That is, they are not JPEGs or PNGs.A JPEG is like a sheet of graph paper where each square is filled in with just one color.vector graphics, such...
View ArticleAre questions about institutions within scope of our site?
We received our first question about specific institutions today: A fair comparison of premium institutes of India like IIT’ and IISC with the world renowned universities like Oxford and CambridgeIs...
View Article2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.As most of you here might be...
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