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Low Level Programming

A blog post by Andy Firth, an Engineer Architect at Bungie, called The demise of the low level Programmer is getting some attention lately. In the post he lists... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Science Before Programming

For most people the first real computer science course is introduction to programming. It may be called something else but effectively what it is is a course that... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 10, 2011 at 09:25 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Abstraction At The Core of Computer Science

I spent the latter part of last week in Palo Alto, California working on the CS 2013 project. There are some pretty amazing people involved in this project (CS)... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 9, 2011 at 09:56 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 8 August 2011

I’m home for a while now. A month anyway. I’ve made 6 trips in the last 6 weeks and only one of them for vacation. So it will be nice to be home for a while. Maybe... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 8, 2011 at 09:40 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computational Tales

I recently found out (thanks to the SIGCSE mailing list) that Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google, has been putting together a set of examples... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Education Leadership Day 2011

Leadership Day is a project started by Scott McLeod and is now in its fourth year. The idea is for people to “blog about whatever you like related to effectivePartners... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 5, 2011 at 09:43 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 4, 2011 at 10:40 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Crackers are Evil

Recently a friend of mine, Vicki Davis, received a pre-publication copy of the new book by Kevin Mitnick the famous cracker. Vicki wrote here review of the book... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 4, 2011 at 09:38 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Imagine Cup Projects

Many of the best projects that are entered in the Imagine Cup are inspired by real people solving problems that have deep meaning for the project team. For some... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 3, 2011 at 09:23 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Congratulations Louis Zulli Jr. and Doug Bergman

There were nine winners in the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, four second place winners and five first place winners (one of these was... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 2, 2011 at 09:53 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 1 August 2011

Last week was incredible at the US Innovative Education Forum. I Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 1, 2011 at 08:55 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day

Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 29, 2011 at 06:56 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Innovative Education Forum

Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 29, 2011 at 06:53 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Innovative Educator Forum Judge Workshop

For some competitions one selects a bunch of smart people, hands them a rubric and says Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 28, 2011 at 09:38 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Hacking Vs. Programming

What is the difference between Hacking and programming? One opinion I have heard expressed is that a hacker can put a lot of code together in a hurry but if a change... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 27, 2011 at 10:01 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Small Grants for CS Education

If you are involved in K-12 computer science education you really owe it to yourself to join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) And if you are a member... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 26, 2011 at 10:47 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Encapsulation

My good friend Sam Stokes posted an introduction to Encapsulation not long ago. Not that I am competitive mind you but I thought I could do better. And since I... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 26, 2011 at 09:32 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 25 July 2011

I was on vacation last week. I had not Internet or cell phone access for a week. It was wonderful as I really needed the break. Don’t we all need a break now and... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 25, 2011 at 09:11 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Introducing the IT History Society

Last week I received two messages about the IT History Society Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 23, 2011 at 09:50 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What does it mean?

Last week I had the chance to hear Douglas Rushkoff talk at the annual CSTA CS&IT Symposium. All of the conference attendees were also given a copy of his book ... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 22, 2011 at 09:57 AM