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Over-Educated, Yet Under-Qualified?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Over-Educated, Yet Under-Qualified?

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Interesting Links July 19th 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links July 19th 2010

I spent some time in California at the CSTA CS & IT Symposium last week. Great stuff to learn and a lot (though never enough) of time to talk to friends both old...

Little Orphan Computer Science
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Little Orphan Computer Science

The never ending debate over where Computer Science fits in the curriculum continues. Mark Guzdial asks why computer science is not in the latest set of STEM standards...

Advice For An Imagine Cup Team
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Advice For An Imagine Cup Team

The following is a guest post by Pat Yongpradit. Pat is the computer science teacher at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. His students competed...

Microsoft Research Illuminates Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft Research Illuminates Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope

Cool stuff for us space nuts. It

Interesting Links 12 July 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 12 July 2010

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Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications

This week Microsoft announced a new set of entry level certifications that may be of interest to many schools and colleges/universities. Personally I think that...

Visual Programming Languages
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Visual Programming Languages

There seem to be a growing number of visual programming languages available these days. Kodu (below) is for creating games by younger people. It

Interesting Links July 5 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links July 5 2010

Did you have a good Fourth of July weekend? technically a holiday for me today as the real day come on the Sunday. I understand it was a bit of a holiday in Norway...

Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup

Well the USA may be out of the World Cup but that

Reflection on ISTE 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Reflection on ISTE 2010

Well I

Career Outlook for CS Students
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Career Outlook for CS Students

The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams

Do we have to make computer science cool again?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Do we have to make computer science cool again?

I have been told that once upon a time the ISTE conference (back when it was still called NECC) had a lot of computer science education content. That

Conversations at ISTE
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Conversations at ISTE

Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...

Interesting Links 27 June 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 27 June 2010

Posting early this week as I hope to have more timely stuff to write about as the week goes on. I

Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit

The Kodu team has just released a classroom kit of Kodu resources. If you are thinking about using Kodu either in a summer program or with students in the fall...

Getting Close to ISTE Time
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Getting Close to ISTE Time

I am starting to put stuff together to take with me to ISTE this weekend. I get in Sunday sometime and already have a dinner meeting set up. And some stuff do to...

How Many Types of Programmers are there?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Many Types of Programmers are there?

Paul Vick wrote a post called

Multiple Paths into Computer Science
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Multiple Paths into Computer Science

This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial

Interesting Links 21 June 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 21 June 2010

By rough count I went through 160 Tweets to cull out the interesting links for today’s post. It makes me wonder if I tweet too much. Of course for me Twitter is...
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