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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Learning Stories - Comments
Continuing my software learning stories series, I will talk a bit about commenting code.One customer I supported many years ago was a Jewish cemetery. In the Jewish...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Learning Stories–Bugs are Undependable
There is a joke in the software development community that “it’s not a bug. It’s an undocumented feature.” It’s typically used when a bug is too hard to fix or...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Learning Stories–Constants
I am a big fan of using stores to teach. Stories are more memorable that contextless theoretical statements. In my career, over fifty years of programming, I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching The Writing of Secure Code
One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
High School Cybersecurity Course–What Belongs
The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been driven by a growth in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson