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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
On Industry Certifications For Students
This post all started as a comment on a guest post by Barbara Ericson on Mark Guzdial’s blog - The Need for an Industry-based Java Exam. In that post Barbara makes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest
I don’t work for Microsoft anymore so I don’t get paid to promote things like this. On the other hand I like the idea of a) applications for social good and b)http...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 November 2012
Super Storm Sandy (for various reasons I believe it was not technically a hurricane when it reached me) came and went last week. I was lucky and we only lost power...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Blog Roll
I thought I had moved a copy of this to my current blogging location but it appears not. Just an attempt to help others find great computer science education blogs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Intersection of Art and Tech
Two of the things that have driven a lot of computing innovation are games and graphics. The two are closely related of course and who university programs haveSmall...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Random Thoughts
A friend of mine posted the picture below on Facebook recently. About as basic, and wrong, random number generator as one can get. But it brings home a point –this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 October 2012
First it was an earthquake and now they are talking about a hurricane hitting much of the east coast. Some places have been hit hard already. Computers are keyCoder...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Projects for Girls
This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some responses via Twitter. Joanne...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Boring Projects
Recently someone I really respect posted a recommendation against using Visual Basic saying “ I find most textbooks for Visual Basic to have boring assignmentsSkins...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 October 2012
Earthquake! Yes earthquakes are rare in New England where I live but we had one last week. Shook things up a bit. Not injuries or damage as it was a mild one as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Stereotypes That Refuse To Die
One of the areas on Facebook is called Trust Me I’m an “Engineer.” where humorous (for sometimes interesting definitions of humorous) images are posted. I don’t...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Figure It Out Myself
I set out for my daily walk today hoping for inner peace and calm. What I found was a bit of inspiration. About a half mile into my walk I saw a little girl, could...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finish the Features or Hit the Date
In professional development there is always a trade off between what features to have in a product and when you want to ship the product. Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Killing Curiosity
I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There are some criticisms in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Basic Gangnam Style!
Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Python. Now Python is a fine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apps4VA Hackathons
My friend Ed Donahue asked me to pass along some information about Apps4VA and their upcoming hackathons this weekend. Apps4VA sounds pretty cool so I am happyApps4VA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 October 2012
Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. One of the things I did was to attend the New Hampshire TechFest at a local high school. NH TechFest is an annual event...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On the value of a CS education
Back at the beginning of my career a hiring manager told me that he almost recommended that I not be interviewed because I had been formally trained in college....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HS Computer Science Honor Society Survey
There has been talk about a high school computer science honor society among the high school CS education community for years. For the most part it hasn’t gotten...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson