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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
The Complex Question of Complexity in Programming
I spent most of last week grading semester projects written by my students. Reading through the code of beginners is really interesting. It’s interesting in part...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education at SxSWEdu 2017
SxSWedu is one big conference I have never been to. Seeing how it is tied to the big South By SouthWest Interactive and Music conferences it has always fascinated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What I Learned in College
For various reasons my thoughts lately have been on my college experience. Now I graduated in 1975 which was a few years ago. A lot has changed in computing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Important Are Number Bases for pre-University Computer Science?
Do high school or younger computer science students really need to understand number-base conversion and binary, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems? Obviously...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Things I’m Watching in 2017
What is going to be big in 2017? It’s always hard to tell but there are several things I think I need to keep an eye on this year. (Note: Last year’s things to.)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on CS Education in 2016
I started 2016 with a post called Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016. It's time to look back and write about what I think I saw over the year. My...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Acting Out The Loop
One of my major goals this year has been to get more activity in class to help students understand concepts. Jumping right into code is awfully abstract for many...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s Your Elf Name–A Programming Project
I love string manipulation projects. Maybe because I have always been more of a word person than a math person. Who knows why. I see them every where. For example...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Week School/District Pledge
Does your school believe in Computer Science for All? Take the @CSforAll #CSEdWeekpledge to show your support and be included in announcement! Our economy isCSforAll...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Fast Can You Sort a Deck of Cards?
OK I admit it – sorting fascinates me. No, really it does. OF course it is also an important topic for computer science classes. CS Unplugged has a lot of resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming vs. Computer Science
Programming is not the same thing as computer science. But of course they are related. For example, knowing how to use the following arrays is programming. Knowing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Truth and Fiction in Programming Memes
I ran into a couple of images with messages about programming today. One I think is useful. The other I think is the opposite of useful. The first one is cute.I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hello Cloud 2017
I’m telling my students about this. Looks like it will be educational even if money is not enough of an incentive. Online Contest The Power of Azure MasterHello...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Many CS Teaching Resources
The Bring IT, Together conference is taking place this week in Niagara Falls, Canada. I’m not there but I have been seeing some social media updates today. Itrobots...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking Deeper About Programming Contests
I have this set of mixed feelings about student programming contests. On one level they just feel very artificial and inauthentic. You have a tight time schedule...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why is learning Binary hard?
Why is learning Binary (and various number bases) so hard for students? I don't remember how exactly there were taught to me except that it was in either the 5th...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots for Teaching are everywhere–Which should I use and how?
Do a search for “robots for teaching programming” using your favorite search engine sometime. You’ll find a lot of news about the latest and greatest robot forRoot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science and the Good Idea Fairy
The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we talk about is parity...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2016
The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of the new K-12 Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson