Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Teaching, Learning and the Job Interview
I was reading a blog post by a college professor the other day (Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one) that starts off talking about how...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 February 2011
I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Does Watson Mean?
Researchers at and working with IBM have created a computer and software that played and beat the best human players of the TV game show Jeopardy. This is an event...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Software on DreamSpark
Dreamspark is all about free development software for students. This week we added six new or updated products to the mix. This release included: KoduSmallBasic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Triangle Shooter
Kenny Spade is a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist out in California who has been writing a series of blog posts that help one learn how to write a Windows...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Education and Education Reform
One of my frustrations these days is that with all the talk of education reform there is not much talk about computing education in that mix. It is as if people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 February 2011
Happy Valentines Day! Surely there is some appropriate computer project or connection for the day but I can’t think of one off hand. Can you? So for me, here are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
18 Monkeys in a Room
“18 monkeys in a room” is how a friend of mine described the typical high school programming competition. You take a much of kids, usually in groups of three to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Programming Languages Really Languages
Every so often someone suggests, sometimes in jest and some times in all seriousness, that programming languages “count” as a language for meeting graduation or...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Innovative Educator Teacher Professional Development
The Microsoft Innovative Educator program at Microsoft is offering a number of two-day seminars for teacher trainers and technology integration specialists.Microsoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making the Case for Becoming a Computer Science Teacher
Mark Guzdial asks the question What
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 February 2011
I spent the weekend in Miami for a meeting of a joint ACM and IEEE committee working on a new/updated set of curriculum recommendations for four-year college computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kindergarten Computer Science
Well actually Karen North, an energetic elementary school computer science teacher and a friend of mine, has twice testified before the Texas State Board of Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To Hack or Not to Hack
The other day I solved a problem in a slightly out of the box way. That is to say that it worked but its not the sort of solution you will see recommended by anyone...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Prototypes from Microsoft Education Labs
Microsoft Education Labs is a sort of technology playground for the Microsoft Education Products group. They have a blog and other pages to share ideas and have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursive Loops
Last week I wrote about loops and how some students seem to have trouble with them. On the link to it from Facebook one friend of mine asked
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 January 2011
Well my busy season is about to begin. Next week I will be in Austin TX for TCEA. I will be doing some talks and demos about Small Basic and hanging around thetaken...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Here we go loopty loop
I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson