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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 30 September 2013
If you are a regular (or irregular) reader of my blog here I hope you will do me the honor of taking a few minutes to respond to a short survey I created last week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 Blog Reader Survey
It’s been a while since I tried to collect any data about who reads my blog and why. When someone pointed out to me that Skydrive has the ability to create webquick...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hammers and Nails and Writing Complicated Code
The ability of students to find complex solutions to simple problems is a constant source of amusement and amazement. I’m probably neither the first or last teacher...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Round Up of Student Technology Competitions 2013
I’ve written about a number of technology competitions and award programs for students in the last month or so. I thought that a single post on them might be useful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Verizon App Challenge - for middle and high school students
This was posted to the AP Computer Science mailing list. I thought it was worth posting here for people not on that list. Looks interesting. Introducing the Second...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes You Have to Slow Down
I was helping a student today and realized that he’d been “lost” for a while. I was going pretty quickly and everyone seemed to be keeping up just fine. Not this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 September 2013
This weeks quote of the week is from Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher who Tweeted “I don't want my students to buy the apps - I want them to make them.” Isn’t thatKinect...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Master the Mainframe 2013
Something different. Something from IBM. A teacher friend of mine forward the following announcement the other day. This contest is open to high school and university...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Videos for My C# Class
I've been creating short videos for my honors programming class. They are short and intended for my students to use for review. I’m not saying they are great but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About the 2014 Imagine Cup
One of the things I was responsible for while I was working at Microsoft was promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. I did that pretty well. I like the competition...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 September 2013
Well I was able to blog more often last week. Paying a bit for it as I had a ton of grading to do over the weekend. When inspiration (or something that feels like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Women in Computing–An Image To Think About
Picture from the Facebook page of www.ilovesmartwomen.com
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What Are People Better At (Then Computers)
I love xkcd. It’s probably the nerdiest comic strip around. Recently the following strip appeared. I think that people are still better at creating comic strips...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
1000 Robots for An Hour of Code
BirdBrain Technologies has announced their intention to lend out 1,000 Finch robots as their contribution to this year's Computer Science Education Week and Code...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Harassment in the Computer Science Classroom
Two interesting and initially unrelated links came across my computer screen in the past couple of days. One was an image that said “Everyone talks about leaving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CSTA members (you are a member right?) should have seen this in their email. The CSTA annual conference is in my humble opinion the single best professional development...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 September 2013
Busy week for me. Lots of stuff going on at school. Seems like the first few weeks of school wear me out no matter how hard I try to be prepared. I have fewer links...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Most Successful Computer Scientist in the World
During a class discussion last week one of my students asked me “Who is the most successful computer scientist in the world?” Whoa! What a question. I started my...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 September 2013
It’s Labor Day in the US and schools are closed here. It’s actually the fourth day in a four day weekend for my school. Some how it always feels like this letsThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson