Friday September 3, 2010 3:27 PM
Real Estate
Austin Resident Hula Master
Take a look at some of Austin’s
most interesting people and
see what brought them—and
kept them—in Austin. These are the
extraordinary people of Austin that
give this area its unique character.
This month’s interview is with
Pei-San Brown, director of community
education at Ballet Austin and
a faculty member/hula instructor for
Ballet Austin. To find out more about
Pei-San, go to www.geocities.com/
island_rhythms...read more»
Testing Problem
Why a new type of problem?
One of the goals of our programming contest has always been to engage students in challenging problems that present real programming experiences. Originally this was done exclusively through traditional programming contest problems and even today such problems comprise the majority of our contest. About ten years ago, we became concerned that nothing in the contest forced the students to wrestle with the concept of a class. Starting in 2000, we introduced “Class-based problems”; these problems emphasize the understanding of abstraction and require the students to be able to read the specifications for a class and to use a class (that is new to them) based only upon those specifications and without being able to view the source code of the class...read more»
