by Dwayne Phillips Universities report that cheating is prevalent in computer science classes. A closer look shows me that the universities are cheating the students by teaching them bad work habits. Computer science enrollment is high this year in universities. Cheating in universities is also on the rise. Universities are proclaiming that the cheating is […]
Cheating in Computer Science
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments
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Learning Some Java
March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Old guys should keep learning. I like to write computer programs, so one of the things I am (re)learning is programming in Java. I am spending some time each day studying the Java programming language. Some of my background: I have written thousands of lines of FORTRAN code I have written thousands […]
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Can’t or Stopped? Another Reframe
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Here is another example of a reframe. In this reframe I change an inability to do something into a choice to attempt it or attempt something else (for a while). Here is another post on reframing things – changing a situation by merely changing the words we use to describe it. I […]
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Working with OpenCV on OS X
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I return to some of my technical roots this week. I am experimenting with the OpenCV image processing and computer vision library. This is fun. This is a “techie” blog post. Many years ago I worked with image processing. I did this work in graduate school and then wrote a lot of […]
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In Praise of the Humble Subroutine
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
By Dwayne Phillips I had to explain the concept of a subroutine in a computer program. The humble subroutine is a type of a module in a system. Modules in systems are wonderful devices. Often, however, we forget about them and how to use them well. Now and then, a fundamental concept comes back to […]
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