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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 28 January 2013
A couple of house keeping items to start. First off, did you know that you can get new blog posts by email? Yep, on the right side of the page is a little signTraining...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Education and Industry–Friends or Foes?
Industry and education should be the best of friends. They should both be working towards some common goals. Mutually supportive allies. These days that doesn’t...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Game Development Links
My good friend Lindsay Lindstrom has started a series on creating Windows 8 games on her blog. Somehow I seem to have neglected to post links to it here. So here...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards correlated with the Common Core
This is a big deal. With so much attention being focused on the Common Core for education these days understanding where Computer Science fits takes on some increased...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teacher as Opportunity Activator
Yesterday I tried out a little web site called Name Tag Analyzer that looks at your LinkedIn information (this assumes you have a Linked In Account of course)Rob...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 21 January 2013
One week until I face a new group of students. Unlike classroom visits in recent years these students are “mine” full time for a semester. Excited to say the least...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Achieve 2013: EduTech Family Summits
A friend asked me to pass this along so I am doing so. I’m hoping to make the event in Boston (Boston – January 26, 2013 Register now!) which is coming up soonMicrosoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Back To The Classroom
The last few months have been interesting as I’ve been looking at different career options. One of the things I realized right away was that I missed teaching.Bishop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 January 2013
half way through January. How’s it going so far? Been interesting for me so far. Hope to have some news about my future plans soon as well. For now, always looking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
STEM Modeling Challenge–Florida Virtual School
I saw this announcement on the Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher forums and thought it worth sharing. Let’s Raise the Bar for STEM Education! Whether...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes It’s the Little Things
I’ve been doing some things with Windows Phone development lately and having some fun with it. Being a long time conventional application developer I am finding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reversi Sample Code
One of my earliest attempts at programming a computer to play against me was a version of Reversi I attempted some30+ years ago. Reversi is a great game for this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 January 2013
Everyone back at school yet? A lot of universities are not while other have short January terms. Most K-12 schools in the US though are back. Some have startedNerd...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nerd Score, Geek Code and Over Reaching the Geek
The other day I was bouncing around the Internet an came across of quiz to compute ones “Nerd Score.” It was a fun little quiz and I knew I’d come out fairly nerdy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Avoid Puzzles in Code
I keep seeing a lot of order of operations “puzzles” in my Facebook stream. The most recent one was 6/2*(1+2) = ? or A lot of people got it wrong. As you might...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Need More Operating Systems
Pure opinion post here. I have never been a big fan of the operating system mono culture. In my first job out of college I worked for a company that developed applications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 December 2012
Well a new year starts tomorrow. Hope it is a great one for all of you. This is the last interesting links list for the year. It’s a pretty short list though. Last...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back, Looking Forward
This seems to be the time that people look back on the previous year and forward to the new year. It’s almost January which was named after Janus who is often pictured...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Future Belongs To The Creators
A lot of people are thinking about the future this time of year. I’ve got a few ideas myself. This is the year I’ve done a lot with apps on phones and tablets....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson