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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
Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Announcing the first part of a series of educational resources for learning to create games for Windows Phone 7. Get introduced to Windows Phone 7, and phone...
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Interesting Links Post 23 August 2010
Happy Monday! Are you back to school yet? A lot of teachers are. If you are back I hope it is going well. If not yet, are you working out to get into
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Shortening the Time To Fun
Recently my friend and co-worker Dan Waters was giving a presentation about XNA Game Studio as a development platform for the new Windows Phone 7s. One of the benefits...
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Girls, Games and Software Development
Girls play games – computer games, video games, console games, online games – all kinds of games. Yet girls are not big into creating their own computer games.Women...
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Computer Science is NOT Boring!
Well I guess a lot of people, especially students thing computer science is boring. According to a recent article (Steve Furber: why kids are turned off computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Free Microsoft Office Add-ins for Educators
Just in time to start off the new school year, several new supporting tools are now updated for teacher use. You can read some summaries below but first check out...
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Interesting Links 16 August 2010
I was on vacation last week. I could not seem to stay away from the Internet and from blogging though. So there were blog posts and I was on Twitter a good bit....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Non-Myths About Programming
Mark Guzdial attended the first day of the ICER 2010 conference in Denmark this week. He blogged about that day (Blogging the first day of ICER 2010) and it sure...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Sample applications
Windows Phone 7 Program Manager, Sean Mckenna, visited the Channel 9 studio to demo of some Windows Phone 7 applications. The idea is that these are some core applications...
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Bytes by MSDN and TechNet
Microsoft has just started a new series of blogs that will highlight various developers and IT professionals from around the US and beyond. This is a chance toBytes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Accessibility and Computer Science
My first real knowledge of differently abled people using computers came about 35 years ago when I was in college. There was a recent graduate of the college who...
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Interesting Links 9 August 2010
What a week. My son was married a week ago. I picked him and his bride up from their honeymoon last night. In between I took a trip to Texas for a Microsoft conference...
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Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7
Interesting in developing games for the Windows Phone 7? David Rousset has just finished a complete series of blog posts explaining a demo he
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10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010
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Interesting Links August 3 2010
You may have noticed that I wasn
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Fixing the Computer Science Problem with an Act of Congress
Bills get written and submitted to Congress without getting passed all the time but if nothing else the process often gets the discussion going. A recent bill to...
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EdChat Education Discussions on Twitter
Have you ever wondered what good Twitter was for educators? Well #EdChat is one thing that is very useful. And pretty interesting as well. EdChat is an informal...
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Interesting Links July 26 2010
I sure have been traveling a lot lately. I spent the early part of last week at Stevens Institute of Technology talking about user interface design and creating...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson