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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
Interesting Links 24 November 2014
This will be a short week in school. Thanksgiving is Thursday in the US and my school is off for a five day weekend. I’m looking forward to a bit of a break. IShakespearean...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop on Student Devices
I have this sort of love/hate relationship with web based applications. I had reason for a bit of both today. I like to introduce students to programming using ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Secret Rosies
This week I have been showing the movie "Top Secret Rosies" to my freshmen students. It’s a wonderful story about some long unsung heroes of both World War II and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 November 2014
Last week was crazy for me. Professional development day last Monday and Veterans Day on Tuesday just made things start differently. Friday was a travel day asFaces...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSEdWeek activities December 8-14, 2014
Blatantly stolen from the CSTA announcement mailing list. We want to hear from all CS teachers! We are calling on YOU to participate in CSEdWeek activitieswww...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.
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Interesting Links–10 November 2014
Parent teacher conferences last week made for a couple of long nights. I confess though that I enjoy meeting parents and talking about their children. Some interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Applications and Computer Science
I love this meme image. When I tweeted it there was a lot of activity on it so I suspect it resonates with a lot of people. Most people who understand what computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 November 2014
Interesting week last week. We finished the first quarter in school. For me a bit of catch up on grading. Not my favorite thing that. I didn’t blog a lot but one...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Leave School Now While You Still Know It All
Interesting questions appear on Twitter all the time. Sometimes addressed to individuals and sometimes addressed to the Twitterverse as a whole. One earlier today...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two States–the Highs and the Lows
I found this image on Facebook last week and it really rang true for me. I experienced both sides of this recently. On one hand I wrote a program on the spur...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 October 2014
What a week. I teach at a private school and one of the things we do is have open houses for prospective students and parents. Last week we had two which meantWhy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Instructions and Removing Ambiguity
Recently I found the following image on Facebook. I plan to use it with my students this semester as a starting off point for conversation. This is a perfect...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Picking Good Variable Names
Actually picking any sort of name is important in programming but we can focus on variable names for a bit. The CS Teaching Tips team tweets and posts a lot ofvariable...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Decision Trees–Possible Interesting Coding Project
I found this interesting flowchart for determining where one should eat Thanksgiving. It’s pretty complete which also means it’s complicated. I guess if you know...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 October 2014
You know those school weeks with lots of interruptions, strange schedules and little normal routine? Yep, had one last week. I also managed to record a good number...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Help Me Win Surface Pro 3s for My School
OK so the good news is that I am one of 15 finalists to win 15 Surface Pro's for my favorite school. The winners are chosen by community voting, so please votehttps...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Idea vs Implementation–Using What We Learn
You’re at a great conference and you are hearing all sorts of great ideas. It’s exciting! You hear about tools and techniques that are working wonders in the presenter...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 October 2014
It was Spirit Week at my school last week. It’s always interesting what students wear when they have really wide latitude – they wear uniforms most days. I also...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson