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ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft

Over the weekend, the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 committee (of which I am a member) released the first public from this effort. (The announcement...

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

Interesting Links 20 February 2012

Happy President

How To Start A Computer Science Flame War
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How To Start A Computer Science Flame War

Computer Scientists and computer professionals who may not think of themselves as

National STEM Video Game Challenge TweetChat
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

National STEM Video Game Challenge TweetChat

The National STEM Video Game challenge kicked off a couple of months ago but it starting to come down to the wire. IF you missed the spring deadline for the Imagine...

Microsoft Developer Day: Entertainment Reimagined
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft Developer Day: Entertainment Reimagined


Magic Numbers Are Bad
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Magic Numbers Are Bad

I had my friend Clint Rutkas review some code of mine. Now I have been writing code longer than Clint has been alive but he

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

Interesting Links 13 February 2012

Home again after a week in Texas! Had a great time in Texas both at the TCEA conference and the steering committee meeting for the CS 2013 project. All in all I...

Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching

Randy Guthrie wrote a long information packed post about Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching in the very near future. If you or your students are entering the...

Hello From Texas
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Hello From Texas

You may have noticed I haven

Tools for Teaching Adults to Program
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Tools for Teaching Adults to Program

We seem to be developing tools to teach younger and younger people to program. Kodu in theory is for students 8 and older but I know that some 6 and 7 years olds...

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

Interesting Links 6 February 2012

I’m headed to Austin TX  today for the Texas Computer Educators Association (TCEA) conference. Hoping to see some old friends and meet some new friends. If youMrYongpradit...

When Just Working Isn
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

When Just Working Isn

I wrote a tic  tac toe game for my Windows Phone today. It works just fine. I’m just not happy with it. I loaded a screen shot of it to the left. Oh it is obvious...

DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up

We

Kinect For Windows Is Out
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kinect For Windows Is Out

I know you have been reading me write about Kinect for Windows for a while now so why is this news? The reason for that is simple

Some Serious Fun With Kodu Programming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Some Serious Fun With Kodu Programming

As regular readers know I am a huge fan of Kodu, the highly graphical, easy to program game development product from Microsoft Research. It is easy enough that...

No Room in the Inn
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

No Room in the Inn

I spent yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology, an outstanding university across the river from New York City. The occasion was a high school computer science...

No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule

I spent yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology, an outstanding university across the river from New York City. The occasion was a high school computer science...

Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?

Last summer I attended the US Innovative Education Forum in Redmond and came home quite inspired by the teachers and projects I saw. Dozens of teachers using...

Interesting Posts 30 January 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Posts 30 January 2012

Wow! January if almost over. Groundhog Day coming up this week. I wonder if these is a fun computing project around Groundhog

Kinect Sweepstakes For Schools
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kinect Sweepstakes For Schools

Energize your classroom and get students moving! Enter for a chance to win a KinectTM for Xbox 360
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