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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Want a Job Expanding Computer Science Education?

The TEALS program (www.tealsk12.org) is looking for regional managers to help them expand their program of placing industry professionals in schools to work with... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 7, 2015 at 08:02 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

I get letters

Doug Peterson occasionally writes “replies” to spam comments that are left on his blog. He does it so well that although I love the idea I don’t want to duplicate... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 6, 2015 at 08:42 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 5 October 2015

School is really rolling along for me. Last week we had our first progress reports due. This was followed up by a number of kids looking to make up missing work... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 5, 2015 at 06:37 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

BBC Micro:Bit News–Lots Happening

News about the BBC Micro:Bit is probably more useful to my United Kingdom readers than those of us in the rest of the world but I think it is interesting to many... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Software Performance–It’s Complicated

One of the things I don’t have near enough time to talk about in a one semester first programming course is performance. Arguably that is much more real computer... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 1, 2015 at 09:16 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

But I’ve Always Done It This Way

I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is to build a triangle... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 30, 2015 at 06:09 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How the Internet works Video Series from code.org

Code.org announced a set of videos about “How the Internet works.” today. This set of short (6-7 minutes long) videos explain many of the key concepts that make... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 29, 2015 at 10:45 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 28 September 2015

Still a lot of news going on about New York City's plans as well as other places also looking at adding more computer science education. It seems like more andCode... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 28, 2015 at 06:25 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Ethics and Computer Science

How many times have we heard it said “with great power comes great responsibility.” Have you read about the scandal with Volkswagen where they used software tricks... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Virtual BBC Micro:Bit Now in Beta

Curious about the BBC MicroBit? There is a new web site about it that includes a virtual Micro:bit computer. There are tutorials and videos and various other bits... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 22, 2015 at 06:03 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 21 September 2015

Lots of CS education news last week. New York City starts a ten year effort to get computer science education in everyone of the city’s 1700 schools. Mayor Bill... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 21, 2015 at 06:00 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft To Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education

Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer science for all youth... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 20, 2015 at 05:51 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Service Learning in AP CS A

Yet another interesting curriculum program. This one a pilot program by the College Board. Versions of a service oriented curriculum for six AP courses including... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 18, 2015 at 06:11 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

So Much Computer Science–So Little Time

I went into the other computer lab today to get some paper for my lab’s printer. The Advanced Placement Computer Science class was in there at the time. Most of... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 17, 2015 at 11:56 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New York City–Computer Science for All

New York is embarking on what may be the most ambitious effort to bring computer science education to all the students in a district in the US today. The program... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 16, 2015 at 09:27 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

2015 Faces of Computing Competition

As a member of the CSTA Equity Committee I am please to pass along the announcement of our annual Faces of Computing Competition. In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA will... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 16, 2015 at 06:34 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New Free APCS curriculum using Processing and GitHub

I found this on a mailing list last week. I haven’t looked to closely at it since we haven’t decided to go with AP CSP at my school yet but it sounds interesting... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 15, 2015 at 06:57 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting links 14 September 2015

Last week was fun. I have great students. One thing I did this week was to create a scaffold program for my Honors Programming students. Just a basic user interface... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 14, 2015 at 05:46 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Young Should We Start Teaching Computer Science?

The other day I read about a new book in the works for teaching Boolean concepts to babies. Yes Babies. A computer scientist is writing a book about programming... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 10, 2015 at 08:56 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Bebras Computing Challenge

This is a new one to me but it looks interesting. I like that it runs down to grades lower than high school. In 2014, almost a million participants across 34Bebras... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 10, 2015 at 06:56 AM