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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 Deeper About Programming Contests
I have this set of mixed feelings about student programming contests. On one level they just feel very artificial and inauthentic. You have a tight time schedule...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why is learning Binary hard?
Why is learning Binary (and various number bases) so hard for students? I don't remember how exactly there were taught to me except that it was in either the 5th...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots for Teaching are everywhere–Which should I use and how?
Do a search for “robots for teaching programming” using your favorite search engine sometime. You’ll find a lot of news about the latest and greatest robot forRoot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science and the Good Idea Fairy
The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we talk about is parity...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2016
The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of the new K-12 Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K–12 Computer Science Framework Released
After over a year of hard work by a lot of people (I had a small role myself) the K–12 Computer Science Framework is now officially out. Frankly I expect some criticism...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 October 2016
Lots of announcements from the Computer Science Teachers Association this past week. We’ll start with them for this week’s links. 2017 CSTA Conference Call for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2017 CSTA Conference Call for Proposals
The CSTA Annual Conference is my favorite conference for computer science education. I have been privileged to attend most of them over the years. And honored to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Security and the Internet of Things
Yesterday I wrote about Cars and Code about the intersection of transportation and software development. As a teaser I mentioned secure code and the need for that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cars and Code
The other day I heard someone talk about what it might be like if car makers or other manufacturers released products the way most companies released software.Ford...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching For Change
This post by Valerie Barr (How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching) really resonates with me. A lot of what education is about is helping students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 October 2016
It is Columbus Day in New Hampshire. Or as my family likes to say “Leif Landed First Day.” I’ve been enjoying visiting the amazing fall foliage in northern NewDesperately...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Facing Facts About the Geek Gene
There are a lot of people who want to believe that computer science ability is some sort of innate talent. That either you have a special brain that can handleresearch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Reality in Education–Sooner or Later?
There is a lot of excitement about virtual reality and the prospects of it changing education. Everything from Google Cardboard (on the low end of cost and ease...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Infosys Foundation USA/ACM/CSTA Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science
On behalf of CSTA, ACM and the Infosys Foundation USA, I wanted to let you know that applications are now open for the inaugural Infosys Foundation USA/ACM/CSTA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 October 2016
It’s autumn in New Hampshire. The leaves are turning all sorts of bright colors and the nights are getting cool. And school is rolling right along. It’s a great...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 September 2016
We celebrated my grandsons second birthday yesterday. Somehow I couldnt get into putting this post together afterwards. It felt like work. Having grandchildrenWe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When But It Works Isnt Enough
I saw this image on Twitter recently. It was captioned: "Spaces or tabs?""Semicolons." Its all perfectly legal C or C++ code. And a decent compiler will handle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bug Reports
I saw the following tweet earlier today. Still earlier in the day I read a post on Mark Guzdials blog about Barriers to Stack Overflow Use for Females which had...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson