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Windows Phone 7 Series Programming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows Phone 7 Series Programming

Programming phones seems to be the hot new thing these days. Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of free programming tools for the new Windows PhoneVisual...

Thoughts On AP CS Principles
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Thoughts On AP CS Principles

The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam is one of the smallest and least diverse members of the Advanced Placement suite of College Board exams. Very few minorities...

Interesting Links 15 March 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 15 March 2010

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Turning on a Paradigm
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Turning on a Paradigm

I

Arrays of Controls
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Arrays of Controls

Over the weekend for the second time in about three weeks a teacher asked my about creating arrays of controls in Visual basic .NET. Interestingly enough both teachers...

Interesting Links 8 March 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 8 March 2010

Well last week was another interesting week for me. I finished it off with a short trip to Houston TX for the annual HP Code Wars high school programming competition...

10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer

I have no idea where this came from originally but it showed up on the AP CS mailing list this week. On one level it is very funny especially if you know the Star...

Upcoming Microsoft Teacher Leader Training Events
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Upcoming Microsoft Teacher Leader Training Events

Are you an educator responsible for providing technology training to colleagues? Do you frequently lead teachers with best practices on how to integrate technology...

Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers

Maybe you are the sort who likes their news to come on paper. Or perhaps you just like your news in regularly scheduled chunks. Perhaps you like someone to do gathering...

What does it mean to be a computer geek?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What does it mean to be a computer geek?

Well Barbie has a new career as a computer engineer. She looks pretty cool in her Binary patterned blouse, Bluetooth headset, net book and PDA. Well there is that...

Say That Again in English
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Say That Again in English

One of the first things I do in the morning is check Twitter. I start with my calendar and my email of course. You never know what your boss may have sent you overnight...

Interesting Links 1 March 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 1 March 2010

Is it March that comes in like a lion and out like a lamb? Well up here in New Hampshire February left like a lion. At one point Thursday some 40% of the state...

NASA Be A Martian Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

NASA Be A Martian Pathfinder Innovation Challenge

Back last November I posted a short link to NASA

Students to Business Career Streams
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Students to Business Career Streams

Microsoft is doing a number of things to help people enter and grow in technology careers. Yesterday there was a post on Microsoft On The Issues called Microsoft...

Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources

Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center. Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well. Check out the Kids

ASCII Art For Fun and Projects
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ASCII Art For Fun and Projects

I guess I am on a nostalgia kick. Earlier this week I found a link to an Text Ascii Art Generator over on Doug Peterson

Interesting Links 22 February 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 22 February 2010

I blogged a lot of opinion pieces last week. I

Not being able to program a computer is like
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Not being able to program a computer is like

I confess to an almost addictive love for a good analogy to explain various ideas. One analogy people use is that they can use a car without understanding how it...

Nostalgia
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Nostalgia

Last week someone on the SIGCSE mailing list mentioned that they learned to program in FORTRAN, using punch cards on an IBM 1130. Well so did I and I said so. This...

Cheating In Computer Science Classes
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Cheating In Computer Science Classes

This story on cheating in Computer Science classes is one of  those things that really makes you think. Years ago one of my students was so tired of students looking...
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