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Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development

Part of my job is to help people find valuable resources. I especially like it when they are free. Free is good. These links are for students, faculty and professional...

Interesting Links 27 August 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 27 August 2012

Back to school hit home today as my wife went back to school for the first day of teachers. Kids come back the day after Labor Day so it is professional development...

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012

One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world they have already beenNCWIT...

Quantity Is Not Enough
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Quantity Is Not Enough

There is often a focus on quantity in our society. Let’s get more apps! Lets get more students taking the AP course! Lets get more [you name it]? UnfortunatelyHow...

Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education

Well it is that time of year again – back to school. On the SIGCSE mailing list are a couple of reminders about online exercise tools for a variety of programming...

Interesting Links 20 August 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 August 2012

Back from vacation and trying to catch up with things. I had over 450 unread email messages in spite of doing some triage over the vacation so if I haven’t gotten...

How To Read Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How To Read Code

We don’t teach students how to read code. Actually we don’t event teach them that they should read code for the most part. The closest we get is sample code inprettyprint...

Try Kinect at your K-12 School
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Try Kinect at your K-12 School

  Capturing students' interest...

Recursion First
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Recursion First

I’ve long had mixed feelings about recursion. (I’ve written about recursion several times in this blog.) In one post, Recursion Early, Recursion Late, I wrote about...

Interesting Links 13 August 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 13 August 2012

Well it’s the middle of my vacation. Mostly I’m avoiding the Internet and email. Mostly. I’m not all that good at this vacation thing. In any case I do have a few...

Public Sector TechBytes Series
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Public Sector TechBytes Series

   http://aka.ms/fzytjrTopicTechBytes Windows 8 Development for Government, Healthcare...

2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up

I missed out on most of the US Forum this year but as I said on Monday () I was able to attend the gala that finished out the event with the award ceremony. I wanted...

You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you

  Location DevCamp...

Kodu: Mars Edition
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kodu: Mars Edition

Did you follow the landing of the latest Mars rover – Curiosity? Well if you did or even if you just know a bunch of space crazy students the latest version ofKodu...

Interesting Links 6 August 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 6 August 2012

What a great week last week was. My big planned event was a meeting of the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 committee in Seattle WA. As it turns out that meant I was able to attend...

Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker

I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that...

Interesting Links  30 July 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 30 July 2012

Over on the left here is a picture of a group of young women who visited Microsoft in Cambridge MA recently as part of Boston University’s Artemis Project. This...

Curriculum is Hard
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Curriculum is Hard

I’ve been involved in a number of curriculum projects over the years. The big one has been the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 task force that is making recommendations on undergraduate...

Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs

Ready to learn how to develop for Windows 8? Well perhaps not quite ready for a dedicated machine or concerned about complicated set-up? Well in those cases the...

Interesting Links 23 July 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 23 July 2012

I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you...
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