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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
Thinking Speed over Typing Speed
Last week I ran across a blog post by John D Cook titled How much does typing speed matter? that got into the debate over how fast programmers should be able to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How not to teach programming
Through the wonders of DZone I came across a blog post called Don't teach like you code. The target audience seems to be professional coders who are teaching beginners...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 December 2010
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teacher Education
Mark Guzdial makes a strong case that the Best hope for CS Teacher Education is in-service, not pre-service. Basically there is not enough demand for strong pre...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft bliink
I’ve talked about Bliink in the past. (See bliink) Over the last couple of years Microsoft has run this web development competition in schools across the county...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS&IT 2011
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out a call for proposals for the Annual CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium (for 2011) today...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Free E Books from Microsoft
I “borrowed” this list from the Microsoft UK Higher Education blog (Free Microsoft ebooks) Most of these I have linked to in the past but it is nice to have a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 December 2010
Did you do anything special for Computer Science Education week last week? The one thing I did was to host a group of about 40 students from Easthampton (MA) high...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does learning have to stop when the last bell rings?
We have this tendency to think that learning at school takes place only between the opening and closing bells of the
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Four Key Concepts of Computer Programming
Last week Rob Miles who is taller than I am, has more hair than I do and has an English accent all of which indicate he is probably a lot smarter than I am left...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools)
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Interesting Links Post December 6th 2010
Well it is Computer Science Education week. Are you doing anything at your school for it this week? I attended three different CSTA chapter meetings in the last...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Read Posts from November 2010
As with most blogs traffic here comes from two main sources. One is subscribers; people who follow the RSS feed and read regularly. I use one analytic tool to try...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Characteristics of a Good Programming Project
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Need A New Teaching Programming Language
I saw some discussions lately about the need or lack of need for new programming languages. In once case especially for teaching programming. In general I think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Artificial Intelligence and Game Programming
Recently the Advanced Placement Computer Science mailing list had an exchange looking for ideas/suggestions for games that students could program artificial indolence...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 November 2010
I hope everyone (US anyway) had a great Thanksgiving last week. For me it was a good time with fun, food and family. We had a great time with my new Kinect sensor...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Learning Computer Science help anything else?
When something I think about a good deal turns up in two or more blogs written by other people my feeling is that this is a sign that I should blog about it. Blogging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Insider
Turn Your Ideas Into Action! Imagine a world where global Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGO
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson