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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
Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021
I’ve never felt less prepared to write a look back on CS education than I do today. I’ve been retired from most of the year and the world has been changed a bit...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Week 2021
Well, its CS Ed Week again. Still no cards in the Hallmark store for it. I’ll get back to that in a moment. CS Ed Week has long been a time to introduce more students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
First - Understand the Problem
Things are different for me being retired. I don’t get the blogging inspiration the way I used to. Today a post by Mike Zamansky (Work through the example!!!!!)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Money is Hard in Programming
Last week I wrote about the making change for a dollar project. It got me thinking about how hard dealing with money in programming really is. The problem with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Ways to Make a Dollar
I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I know do use it. Simply...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Define Learn To Code
I saw an interesting question today on Twitter: Hey coding enthusiasts! In your opinion, what's the best laptop for students to learn how to code on? #edchat #edtechchat...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Phun With Phone Numbers
Among the programming projects I ran into recently was one to calculate all of the combinations of letters one could make from a phone number. Companies do this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An AI Tutor for CS Education
Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education. The project “goal is to build a personalized and autonomous intelligent...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top computer scientist get...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging–Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
Mike Zamansky had an interesting post called What They Used To Know that got me thinking about the old days. Now Mike is a youngster and didn’t really start in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Simple Early Programming Projects
If you are not on Twitter you may be missing a lot of good things. For example, the other day Kelly Lougheed (@kellylougheed ) tweeted out a bunch of simple labs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Assigning Projects or Recipes?
Chris Lehmann, the amazing principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, says “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the same thing, that’s not...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IntelliCode Completion In Visual Studio (Preview) 2022
There is a preview out for Visual Studio 2022 available and since I a) love to try new things and b) am not limited to by what is on the student computers I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hexapawn–An Interesting Programming Project
I'm cleaning up and finding interesting things. Well, actually, interesting books. One find is called "A Collection of Programming Problems and Techniques." Copyright...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing With Code–Recursion
Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing about and writing code...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IoT, Python, and Raspberry Pi–Oh My
Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been trying to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing with Bacon's Cipher
Bacon's cipher is a fairly well-known and simple cipher. Its considered a form of steganography. Unlike most steganography, the code is hidden in the text and not...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pluses and Minuses of the Unary increment Operator
There has been a conversation on Twitter about the unary increment operator (++) and related (+=, –, etc.). I tend to gloss over these when teaching beginners....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Observations on #CSTA2021 Virtual Conference
The CSTA 2021 Virtual Conference is in the books. I really did enjoy it and I learned a lot. Virtual conferences are different from in-person conferences and INotes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson