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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
Computer (and Math) Humor
I like this one in part because it is subtle. There are two basic standards for opening the curly brace in C-type languages. Not everyone will pick up on it....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 May 2013
Just about a month left of this school year for me. In between trying to keep things going with grading and teaching I’m starting to think about what I want toRay...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Fart Apps Do We Need
The satirical publication TheOnion released a fart application on GitHub. One can add it to their web page and people who visit it will hear fart sounds when they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visualization–can you see it in your head?
I had dinner tonight with several computer science professors. The topic of conversation turned to the question of “can everyone learn to program?” One professor...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 May 2013
About five weeks left to my school year. I’m behind in grading. I’m behind in lesson planning. This means less time on the Internet for the next week or so. Somehow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Search Engines Can’t Replace Teachers (yet?)
My programming students are working on some projects these days. I have them working of teams of two to four. As they work I am listening to their conversations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Toy–Raspberry Pi
It is hard to resist a new technology toy. I’ve been hearing about the Raspberry Pi computer for some time now. A couple of weeks ago I talked to a teacher friend ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 April 2013
Last week was school vacation week and I was away with less than ideal Internet. I’m still not sure if that is better or worse than no Internet at all. In any@...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Embarrassment of Riches
It seems like hardly a week goes by without hearing of some new development tool, web site or online training course for the teaching of computer science to beginners...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 April 2013
Yes I’m a day late with this post. It’s school vacation week in New Hampshire and I’ve had other things on my mind. These things happen. I have limited Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hopscotch–Visual Programming for iPads
is a new programming environment for the iPad. It is heavily influenced by Scratch from MIT but has nothing like the features of Scratch. It’s only in beta and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Fellowship Opportunity for Up to 20 CS Teachers
For the past 3-4 months, Google has been working on a program that focuses on diversity and CS pipeline. They will be starting up a program to increase opportunities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fear of Being Boring
I recently came across Shawn Cornally‘s blog titled ThinkThankThunk and noticed that the subtitle is “Dealing with the fear of being a boring teacher.” That is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BIG Projects
I’ve been trying some different things this year. One experiment was to assign my C# students (this is a second programming course for most of them) to modify a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Annual Conference Keynote Speakers Announced
The Computer Science Teachers Association is proud to announce the keynotes for the 2013 CSTA Annual Conference (formerly known as the Computer Science & Information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 April 2013
Income taxes are due the end of the day today in the US. Thanks to computer software mine are done and in with a minimum of pain. It is amazing how much easierlearn...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Book Reimagined by Video Game Makers
VIDYA BOOKS: the book, as reimagined by video game makers is a Kickstarter project that is being spearheaded by someone I met while I was at Microsoft. Joe Booth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Resources For Teaching Binary Numbers
Several years ago I wrote a post on my old blog with resources for teaching Binary. Since I no longer have access to that site I can’t update it with more links...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCT Recommendations for ISTE 2013
The annual ISTE conference is not known as a hot bed of opportunities for computer science teachers. Things look some what better this year though with 13 activities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson