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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
XNA and Visual Basic
I have been playing with Visual Basic and XNA for a few days now. Support has been out for VB and XNA for a little while now but the release of the Windows Phone...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic
I’ve been working all week in C#. Now C# is a wonderful language if you are going to use semi-colons and curly braces. It fixes almost all of the issues I haveYou...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Teams in the Worldwide Imagine Cup Finals 2011
The Worldwide finalists for all categories of the Imagine Cup are out and you can read all of the amazing projects at the Imagine Cup Blog. There are 124 teams...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream
Now I taught middle school during the longest year of my life. And I do guest talks at middle schools all the time. But honestly I do not have the knack for doing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011
Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors especially the finalists....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 May 2011
Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Data! I need more data!
Big data! I don
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Letters In An Alphabet
My mind tends to wonder a bit when I drive long distances. Sometimes it goes in very weird directions. For some reason I started thinking about encoding characters...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
Paul Vick posted these Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers earlier this week and I have been thinking about them a lot. They make sense to me. As a professional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Competition as Learning
As I write this I am at St Joseph
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Do today
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA course curriculum last week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Returning Data From A Second Form
The other day I received a query about using second forms in Visual Basic. I found a link to some examples and passed it along but it left me unsettled. The teacher...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
University Computer Science Faculty Blogs
I read a lot of blogs. Perhaps too many. But there are a few blogs I could not do without. I thought I might do a series of recommendations on different types of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Can You Do With What You Know?
We
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Computer Science As Competitive Sport
I was reading Tracey Armstrong's blog this morning. He was writing about the end of the Texas CS Competition season. Yep, in Texas there is a Computer Science competition...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start
Pat Yongpradit, a talented young HS CS teacher I have written about before, has created a 5 week mini-course on game programming with XNA Game Studio. This course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
I had a great week last week. Long but great. I finished up with two conferences where for once I was not presenting. On the other hand the next time I go to either...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today. Many great companies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson