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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
Moving CS Education Online
Covid-19 is motivating schools all over the world to close. Many other schools are looking at options in case they have to close their facilities. My own school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Working Through the Stages of Debugging
I found this Tweet by Katerina Borodina @ctrlshifti that claimed that the 5 stages of grief apply perfectly to debugging code Denial "The compiler is wrong" Anger...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Large Classes The Answer To a Computer Science Teacher Shortage?
Another teacher reported on Facebook that they were going teach AP CS Principles and that this was the first time they are teaching computer science and their students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Iowa Caucus 2020–What Happens When Software Doesn’t Work?
It’s too early to tell exactly what went wrong with the Iowa caucus this year but I suspect it will wind up being a case study in several ways. Political Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Check Out The CS Ed Podcast
I first heard about the CS Ed Podcast back when I wrote on debugging. Amy Ko of the university of Washington talked about teaching debugging in a recent interview...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The System Knows Who You Are
True confession – give me an app that plays with interesting and personal data and I’ll play for a while. The amount of data available to us today is astounding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should We Use the Technology in the Classroom?
I confess that I would love some augmented reality device that showed me the name of the student I was looking at. I am horrible with names. I like to think that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking and Teaching about Technology Policy Issues
What are the top technology issues for the 2020s? Brad Smith, Microsoft President, wrote an interesting post about a month ago called Dawn of a Decade: The TopHis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Having Fun With Computer Science
There is no question that there are a lot of ways to have fun with computer science. Some of them are inexpensive. Some of them cost a lot of money. You can doComputer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do Teachers Without CS Experience Debug Student Code
My Programming Honors students are wrapping up their semester projects today. Actually they should all have been handed in by now but I’ll give them until the end...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does “doesn’t work” mean?
Every computer science teacher has heard it “My program doesn’t work. What is wrong with it?” Sometimes they will show you the code without any more explanation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Brief Career Memoir
Blame Mike Zamansky for this one. In my last post I mentioned that I am planning on retiring from the classroom this spring. Mike wondered how my perspectives have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A 2020 Vision
Sorry. You may be as tired of the 2020 jokes and puns about the new year as I am. I’ll try to avoid them in the future. This is the time of year I look at the last...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on Blogging
Both Doug Peterson (https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/10-years-ago-2/) and Mike Zamansky (https://cestlaz.github.io/post/10-years-blogging/) posted to their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on Computer Science Education 2019
Christmas break for me until 6 January 2020 and with Christmas over I have some time to think. 2019 was an intere3sting year in CS education. States continue to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Explain This Confusing Code
My major task today has been finishing off the semester exam for my Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students. They’re not happy about having an exam...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding Without a Net
My Programming Honors students are struggling with creating classes in C#. They really wanted me to code up a project live (again) and have them follow along. But...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding for Fun and Advent of Code
My friend Mike Zamansky is a big proponent of the Advent of Code – 25 days of coding problems leading up the Christmas. Since I have been thinking I want to write...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s In A Name?
Naming things seems to be a continual problem with programming students. I’ve written about this before (two years ago A Rose By Any Other Name Gives An Error )...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson