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Interesting Links 9 August 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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...

Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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

10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010

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What do you want in a Textbook
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What do you want in a Textbook

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Interesting Links August 3 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links August 3 2010

You may have noticed that I wasn

Fixing the Computer Science Problem with an Act of Congress
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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...

EdChat Education Discussions on Twitter
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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...

Interesting Links July 26 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

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...

Teaching to the Test
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching to the Test

OK let me be clear upfront that I am not a big fan of the current Advanced Placement Computer Science exam. And it

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
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