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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
Interesting Links–14 April 2014
Crazy busy weekend for me. The weather was great and I got a lot done outside. Left me too tired to write this up last night. Sorry for the early birds who usually...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code: Echo–Programming Challenge
Using a coding challenge as a promotional event for a movie? This is a new one on me but it looks interesting. What I especially like is that they are sharing resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Work for Computer Science and Robotics Instructors
If you are a member of the CSTA you should have received this announcement via email. BUT if you didn’t or you are not a CSTA member (why not?) I thought this worth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Students Are Not Me
Sometime in elementary school a teacher taught number bases. I was fascinated. It was interesting. It was fun. It made perfect sense to me. I spent hours converting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Just Grab the Wheel, Ask the Driver to Turn
We’re learning about classes and related topics like data hiding and using methods rather than public data in my programming class these days. One of the students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Hackers Immersion Program 2014
Mike Zamansky announced this program on his blog yesterday. (Announcing SHIP) It sounds amazing. It’s being run at St Joseph’s College in Brooklyn and is for students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 April 2014
Spring has sprung. Well at least the last of the snow is gone. Seems like late here but it hardly matters as I’ve been busy with school anyway. Seems like lastwhat...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Much Forgiveness
I’m teaching a little web development to my freshmen this week. Not a lot – it’s not a web development course – just enough to give them some idea of what is behind...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking about Vo-Tech Programming & Web Development Curriculum
I get questions. By email, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Seems like they come just about everyway. And I love it. Recently I got a question about vo-tech...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 March 2014
I’ve been writing more code then usual lately. Mostly just for the fun of it. That means less time on the Internet collecting good links. But it’s been great getting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why So Many Programming Languages
A post I wrote some time ago bemoaning the lack of new operating systems has been the most frequently viewed post of all time on this blog. Today I’m posting some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Assigning Projects That Create Programs Students Use
I spend a lot of time thinking about projects for my students. For programming, for applications (Office apps etc.) and just in general. I want to find projects...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 March 2014
Supposedly spring arrived in New England last week. The daffodils working their way up in my front yard suggest that may actually have happened. The piles of snow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Global Forum 2014
Recently Microsoft ran their big annual Microsoft Global Forum which brings together top teachers with technology from all over the world. I really want to go some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Coming to the 2014 CSTA Conference?
As you may have already heard (especially if you are a regular reader of this blog), the Computer Science Teachers Association is in full swing for our 2014 annual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing The View Of Code
The other day I was working on a code project and ran into a frustrating bug. I looked at it for at least an hour and got nowhere with it. I used breakpoints, debugging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming for the fun of it
Several years ago I was visiting a college and the professor I was meeting with told me he assigned a slot machine project to his students. That struck me a a very...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Teaching Programming Teach Grit?
Grit seems to be the latest educational buzz word these days. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth “grit is a better indicator of GPA and graduation rates...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 March 2014
Apparently the groundhog was right about a long winter. At least for us in New Hampshire. Still plenty of snow on the ground here. Extra incenting to find things...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson