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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
Change the Programming Language, Change the Course
A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP Java). This comes up...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Well Can You Code the Projects You Assign Students?
Garth Flint had another good post today (Last Day of School And Done with Java) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes about some lessons learned...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Helping Doesn’t Always Help
My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at home. Normally that is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Today and Planning For Tomorrow
It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use projects rather than an exam...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM CompEd Conference
Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: Day 1 for example. Looks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science And x
For most of my teaching career I have been focused on teaching computer science in stand alone computer science classes. And I really like teaching computer science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Migrating to Android–an early trip report
One of the reasons I held on to my Windows Phone as long as I did is that it was so easy to program apps for it. I had come to depend on one particular app I wrote...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
With Great Code Comes Great Responsibility
Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. The challenge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Game of Thrones and Computer Science
I confess that I have not watched a single episode of Game of Thrones. That doesn’t mean I am oblivious to the social impact of the show. My online social media...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Than One Way To Code a Solution (to a programming project)
Garth Flint has an interesting post about grading programming projects (It is never easy) in which he talks about the interesting solutions students come up with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is in a name?
It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my students are having the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach Programming or Teach a Programming Language
For me, teaching is all about the concepts. Programming languages change. My first programming language was FORTRAN. This was the big language with I was in university...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging Student Code for Fun and Learning
Students are really good at creating strange hard to solve bugs in their code. I am convinced that the code of a raw beginner can easily be harder to debug than...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links for Computer Science Educators 19 March 2019
I haven’t done one of these for a while. I still Tweet or retweet a lot at @AlfredTwo but I needed a break. I’m not sure I will do this every week but I think I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Awards I Wish We Didn’t Need
Last week my school was told we had earned the College Board’s Female Diversity award for both Advanced Placement Computer Science A and Advanced Placement Computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
High School CS Education: Where Do We Start and Where Do We Go?
There are a number of sets of standards with most based on the CSTA standards (https://www.csteachers.org/general/custom.asp?page=standards) and the K-12 CS Framework...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Cross The Data Types
Remember in the first Ghostbusters movie where the ghostbusters are told not to cross the stream of their ghost busting guns? And then at the end they do crossa...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Projects More Interesting With More Data
My students are working on the palindrome project. You probably know it – enter a string and report if it is a palindrome or not. In my case, I have them create...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Remember The Ladies–And Act
In March of 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband who would be the second US president “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson