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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
CSTA 2021 Scholarships
Are you looking to attend the CSTA 2021 Conference but funding is an issue? There are a great many scholarships available that can help. Visit the scholarship site...
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Learning To Teach To Learn
A blog post by Eugene Wallingford (TEACHING YOURSELF THE MATERIAL) reminded me of some things. As he says, “A common complaint from students is that the professor...
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To Many Ways to Add One
Someone posted a questions asking which sort of programmer one was from a list of ways to add one to a variable:X++++XX+=1X = X + 1Actually the initial question...
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Programming using Text or Blocks? Why not Both?
Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. In this post, I take...
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Zero Indexing Considered Harmful
As the old computer geek joke goes. the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. Lately I have been thinking about off by one...
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What’s Up with Novice Programmers and Comments
Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. I take a look at Usage...
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Inch by Inch–The Inchworm Problem
I am reading a bunch of papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time.Get them while you can. I started with Exploring...
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How Should We Evaluate High School Teaching Records?
Mark Guzdial posted several articles about evaluating the teaching records of undergraduate faculty. (Links below) They really got me thinking. Now evaluating secondary...
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Does Bad Code Lead to Good Learning?
Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that it did. The code is this: static...
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Scratching the Programming Itch
Programming is fun for me. It always has been.I’ve always written code to scratch a personal itch. That is to say that I like to write programs that interest me...
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Comments on Commenting Code
Comments sometimes seem to be a hot button for software developers. Opinions range from the manager I had who actually did want a comment on every line of code...
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Early Registration Open for the CSTA Annual Conference
Just registered for the 2021 CSTA Annual Conference Early discounted registration for CSTA+ members is now open https://web.cvent.com/event/354be991-0b98-48e0-b4d3...
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Recursion–How and When to Teach
I’ll start with a confession. Recursion is one of those concepts that I struggled to understand in the beginning. Was it me or was it how it was taught? An open...
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Looking Forward to 2021 in CS Education
What a strange year it has been. The pandemic and more took a lot of the steam out of what I had hoped to dig deeply into in 2020. Surviving is success in these...
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Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2020
What a year it has been. I was reading my start of the year post from January. The closing was “2019 has some serious potential.” I had no idea what was to come...
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Pythagorean Theorem Day Programming Project
I’ve been doing little programming projects for my own amusement. I thought about doing Advent of Code like the cool kids are (Looking at you Mike Zamansky who...
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Musings on the Goals of High School Computer Science Education
Recent conversations on Twitter and Facebook have had me thinking about the goals of teaching computer science in high school. There is no single goal and it probably...
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Dreidel Game–A Chanukah Programming Project
If you’re anything like me, you like to assign projects that have some relationship to what is going on in the world. Holidays are one such thing. December brings...
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New Resources for Teaching and Learning about Artificial Intelligence
Earlier this week I was a guest speaker in a computer science class (via Zoom of course). It was fun to be back into a class and interacting with students. Thehttps...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson