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How To Read Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How To Read Code

We don’t teach students how to read code. Actually we don’t event teach them that they should read code for the most part. The closest we get is sample code inprettyprint...

Try Kinect at your K-12 School
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Try Kinect at your K-12 School

  Capturing students' interest...

Recursion First
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Recursion First

I’ve long had mixed feelings about recursion. (I’ve written about recursion several times in this blog.) In one post, Recursion Early, Recursion Late, I wrote about...

Interesting Links 13 August 2012
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Interesting Links 13 August 2012

Well it’s the middle of my vacation. Mostly I’m avoiding the Internet and email. Mostly. I’m not all that good at this vacation thing. In any case I do have a few...

Public Sector TechBytes Series
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Public Sector TechBytes Series

   http://aka.ms/fzytjrTopicTechBytes Windows 8 Development for Government, Healthcare...

2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
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2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up

I missed out on most of the US Forum this year but as I said on Monday () I was able to attend the gala that finished out the event with the award ceremony. I wanted...

You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you

  Location DevCamp...

Kodu: Mars Edition
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kodu: Mars Edition

Did you follow the landing of the latest Mars rover – Curiosity? Well if you did or even if you just know a bunch of space crazy students the latest version ofKodu...

Interesting Links 6 August 2012
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Interesting Links 6 August 2012

What a great week last week was. My big planned event was a meeting of the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 committee in Seattle WA. As it turns out that meant I was able to attend...

Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker

I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that...

Interesting Links  30 July 2012
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Interesting Links 30 July 2012

Over on the left here is a picture of a group of young women who visited Microsoft in Cambridge MA recently as part of Boston University’s Artemis Project. This...

Curriculum is Hard
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Curriculum is Hard

I’ve been involved in a number of curriculum projects over the years. The big one has been the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 task force that is making recommendations on undergraduate...

Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs

Ready to learn how to develop for Windows 8? Well perhaps not quite ready for a dedicated machine or concerned about complicated set-up? Well in those cases the...

Interesting Links 23 July 2012
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Interesting Links 23 July 2012

I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you...

New Curriculum Resources for App Development on Windows 8
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New Curriculum Resources for App Development on Windows 8

Most of what I post about is specifically for K-12 computer science education but I recently received the following about some curriculum designed for university...

2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day Two
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2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day Two

Rick Rashid who created and runs Microsoft Research gave the opening keynote for day two. I found it interesting that when they started Microsoft Research they...

2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
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2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One

Oh what a day! I’m at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond WA this week. This is a big event for Microsoft Research with...

Interesting Links 16 July 2012
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Interesting Links 16 July 2012

The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit starts today (about noon eastern US time) Much of it will be streamed at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events...

Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts

The first part of this week was spent in Irvine CA for the 2012 CS & IT Conference. It

Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone
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Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone

This is the basic instructions for the demo I did as part of the Mobile App Development throwdown at the CS & IT Conference July 10th, 2012, Open Visual Studio...
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