Category: Course Information

By Litong D. The IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition) IDE comes with two preset themes, Light and Darcula. However, they can get bland rather quickly. Thus, below are two ways to change the color of your IntelliJ editor to add a Read More …

By Litong D. A frequent question that pops up during the course of conversation is “why should my student learn Computer Science if they are not interested in STEM?” To answer that question, here is an acrostic poem that we Read More …

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Class-Elected Best Project — By Ryan Z The game shown in this video, as nice as it is, doesn’t really show how cool the final version of the game is, which is in a different theme, and even fun-er! I Read More …

Another super successful semester just concluded ! The year of 2020 is special for everyone, we are super proud of all our students who kept their heads down to learn and better themselves amid so many distractions and with unprecedented Read More …

Our Intermediate Java semester just concluded! We completed three projects as a class during the semester: Tic-Tac-Toe, Snake, and Jetpack Joyride. During the last two weeks, students independently created their own final projects. I’m very proud of what the students Read More …

 

 

So excited to start our 3rd project for Intermediate Java. We has the Sims Game as the 3rd project before, to keep doing fun and new things, this semester we are doing Mario special Jetpack Joyride edition for the Wednesday Read More …

In preparation for the awesome Snake Game, we will be teaching Intermediate Java students how to do a few fun things first today , including how to use keyboard to control item movement, and to let things run by itself. Read More …

This course covers THE ENTIRE set of techniques that students need to learn to pass the USACO Bronze contest. Compared to many other USACO curriculum, you spend LESS TIME, LESS TUITION, and LEARN MORE.  All other USACO curriculums that we see involves more Read More …

Let’s look at a very interesting USACO Gold problem Unbalance Photo. At first glimpse, it could be an easy and straightforward counting problem, but with up to 100000 cows, it will time out. How to solve it without TLE (Time Read More …

What a summer! During spring 2020, I told my Intermediate Java class at the time that they are my best class so far (other students please don’t be jealous) , guess what, our classes keep getting better and better , Read More …

HUGE Congratulations to EVERYONE! I am very pleased to announce and recognize the best projects from summer 2020’s Intermediate Java class. Before we look at the list, I want to stress that I see the amount of efforts EVERYONE put Read More …

Our two Fundamental Java classes for Summer 2020 have successfully concluded! As a tradition, we would like to recognize the top students who consistently put in their best efforts and go above and beyond to learn and excel! Teacher Lucy’s class Read More …

Came across pictures of our APCS class last year (2019).  That was us having the last lesson of the semester before Christmas, rewarding the top 3 students and doing an elephant exchange. Fun old days! Can’t wait for them to Read More …

Hello students! In the past a couple of students have seen the following messages when taking online lessons. I ran into the same issue myself today!! That is a sign — time to write a post about it. This is Read More …

Spring 2020 season officially ended! Today we successfully completed both Fundamental Java class and Intermediate Java class, what a day! Happy and proud of all our students! And congratulations to our super stars for their great efforts, passion and achievements! Read More …

2020 年新年伊始的时候，文老师应美东学苑邀请为家长们做了详细全面的计算机学教育讲座。我们把讲座录制成了 ASCENDE LEARNING 网课的形式，欢迎大家随时听听，在科普的同时，也得到网课的体验。 感谢杨教授的评价! 收听讲座回放, 请 follow 以下步骤: If you are new to us, visit https://ascendelearning.com/my-account/ to register a new account (only an email address is needed), and log in 点击 讲座课程 链接 点击绿色的 “Take This Course” button 进入网课，选择感兴趣的TOPICS Read More …